Category : Windows 3.X Files
Archive   : CF536N.ZIP
Filename : DESC_NAR.DOC

DESC_NAR.COM -- Utility for Melding DESCRIPT.ION and NARATIVE.CF Files


DESC_NAR is provided as a freeware adjunct to the CMFiler shareware
disk/file manager for 4DOS/NDOS users. Both CMFiler and 4DOS/NDOS have
the capability to attach notes to files and directories, to help remind
you of their contents. The 4DOS/NDOS notes are contained in files in
each directory called DESCRIPT.ION, the CMFiler notes in files called
NARATIVE.CF.

Unfortunately, I wrote CMFiler's notes facility before I had any
knowledge of the convention and format already available in 4DOS/NDOS,
and now the investment of time and risk of introducing logic errors into
CMFiler's notes facility by attempting a rewrite it at this late date to
shift to the 4DOS/NDOS DESCRIPT.ION convention is simply too great.

So I have done the next best thing -- a conversion utility that
searches any disk you wish for all appearances of the 4DOS/NDOS-style
DESCRIPT.ION files and CMFiler-style NARATIVE.CF files, renames them to
*.BAK to preserve the original information, melds their combined
information, casts out duplicates, and generates new files in both
formats in each directory in which either style file had originally
appeared.

Simply run DESC_NAR.COM at the DOS prompt by typing DESC_NAR. You
will be asked to press the letter of the drive you want searched and
DESCRIPT.ION and NARATIVE.CF files melded, and, when that drive is done,
whether you want to do another. DESC_NAR requires 196k of free
conventional memory.

DESC_NAR is provided by the author as a freeware utility to
complement the CMFiler shareware disk/file manager. It is offered as-is,
and is not warranted in any way. C. F. Martin is not responsible in any
for any consequences arising from the use of DESC_NAR.

Charles F. Martin
NoVaSoft
3239 Riverview Dr.
Triangle, VA 22172-1421

Phone 703-221-1471
CompuServe [72130,1400]