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- PROGRAM: DIRDBF.COM Version 1.0
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- CONTACT: Keith P. Graham, BBS (914) 623-0039
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- SHAREWARE: This program is free to use as long as it is
- not offered for sale or is included with other
- files which are for sale.
-
- DESCRIPTION:
- Creates a standardized DBF file which can be
- Read by DBASE/FOX/CLIPPER/ETC.
- The contents of the DBF are a list of files.
- The Format of the DBF file is:
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- Field Field name Type Width Desc
- 1 NAME Character 8 File name
- 2 EXT Character 3 File extension
- 3 SIZE Numeric 10 Size of file
- 4 DATE Date 8 Date file last touched
- 5 TIME Character 8 Time file last touched
- 6 ATTRIB Character 6 Attributes of file
- 7 PATH Character 128 Disk and path of file
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- USAGE:
- DIRDBF dbfname[.dbf] [dirspec]
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- where: dbfname is the name of the dbf to be created (with or without
- the extension .DBF).
- dirspec is the disk,path and filespec of the files to be listed.
- This can include wild cards. It defaults to *.*.
-
- example:
- dirdbf dlist c:\dos\*.exe
- This creates a list of all exe's in the c:\dos dir and
- creates dlist.dbf with this info.
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- TIME is in the format HH:MM:SS
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- PATH contains the complete disk and path of the file. The trailing
- backslash "\" is left off. On networks the disk is included as the
- server name in the format \\SERVER\.
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- The fields are filled in from information about the file. ATTRIB
- contains up to 6 attributes. They are positional.
- The following are the contents of ATTRIB and their meaning:
- A = Archive bit
- H = Hidden
- S = System
- R = Read only
- D = Directory
- V = Volume Label