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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, 47-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.DIR, 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 date 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 .DIR 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.
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- Updates to DIRNOTES
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- Summary: Dirnotes provides a means for the DOS user to annotate his
- directories. It automatically sorts directories by filename
- and keeps track of file additions and deletions.
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- Upon execution, Dirnotes brings up an editible window for the
- user to enter comments next to filenames. Upon exit the comments
- are saved in a file named DIRNxxxx.DAT. (the xxxx's are deter-
- mined by the current pathname.)
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- The original source code was released in a past issue of
- PC Magazine.
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- Code
- Revision Date Letter Notes
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- 1.00 05-19-87 none Original release by M. Mefford
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- 1.10 10-15-89 *A Redefined & added new edit keys as follows:
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- Home - cursor to beginning of line
- End - cursor to end of line
- ^Home - goto top of directory list
- ^End - goto end of directory list
- ^Left - move left one word
- ^Right- move right one word
- ^T - delete word right
- ^Y - delete line
- DEL - delete character
- INS - toggles insert mode
- Tab - move right 5 spaces
- Sh-Tab - move left 5 spaces
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- 1.20 09-04-90 *B Eliminated the time to allow a larger comment
- area, reformat filenames added via RBBS upload
- and added a new edit key to assist the RBBS
- Sysop in adding categories;
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- Alt-C - go to the last 3 of the comment
- field. FMS directories store the
- categories in the last three
- characters of the description.
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