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- Subject: File comments
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- From: dave@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (David Dustin)
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 13:11:32 +1300
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)
- Keywords: Strange characters
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- I have a question about the comment feilds of files.
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- I just brought a copy of DirOpus 3.41, and when I used it to check my
- system, I foudn that some files had a strange character as the first
- letter of the comment.
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- I have never noticed this before, and I had never seen it before. If
- I used the list command, or anything else which shows the comment, the
- extra character is not shown.
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- After talking to my friend on the phone, we (well, he) suggested that
- it might be the number of chatacters in the comment field. And it
- was.
-
- According to "Mapping the Amiga" and several other books, the
- character is the first of the 80 characters set aside for the comment.
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-
- Can anyone please tell me if this is ment to be here, and what we are
- ment to do with it? Am I ment to skip the first character, or what?
-
- :)ave
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- David Dustin | 'How come I get all the hard questions?'
- Dave@Dogbox.acme.gen.nz | - O. North
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