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- DIRNOTES At a Glance
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- DIRNOTES presents a DOS-format, alphabetically-sorted directory
- listing in the left portion of the display, together with a coordinated,
- 38-character field on the right side in which you can enter descriptive
- comments about the file contents, hot-keys, etc. Your notes are automatically
- saved when the Esc key is pressed, in a file called DIRN-abc.DAT, where abc
- represent the first three letters of the directory name.
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- Syntax:
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- DIRNOTES [d:][path][directory]
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- Operation The cursor Up- and Down-Arrow keys, are used to scroll the
- coordinated directory listings/notes line by line. PgUp and PgDn scroll by
- screenful, and Home and End go to the beginning and end of the listings. The
- DIRNOTES editor operates in overstrike mode and incorporates a backspace
- delete. The Left- and Right-Arrow keys can be used to move the cursor
- without deleting characters beneath it.
- A "U" immediately after the directory listing indicates that that file
- has been updated since the last time the DIRNOTES data file was updated, so
- the file description may need to be changed.
- The .DAT file created by DIRNOTES is in standard ASCII, and so may be
- TYPED. Users are cautioned against attempting to edit the .DAT file with a
- word processor, however, as the record field lengths are fixed-length and any
- changes made other than by DIRNOTES itself may render the file unrecoverable.