Re: A suggestion....

[David Auerbach auerbach@xxxxxxxx]

I think that you are just looking for the dirl command.
This will add to your directory listing the first n lines of your file
(n is settable in settings.dfl)
I'm away from a Xymachine at the moment but my memory, such as it is,
says that the default is DI. As in:
 DF DI=1024,6,1   which I seem to remember as the relevant default:
it specifies the units that file size is expressed in, the number of
lines that dirl will show, and the "1" is a switch to suppress blank
lines.


This is particularly useful if you put an informative non-printing note
at the top of your files; though sometimes an RH command will serve the
purpose.


               Regards,
               David

David Auerbach
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On Feb 22, 2004, at 7:42 AM, M.W. Poirier wrote:

>  This is just a suggestion. I don't really know if this can be done
>  or not.
>
>  Would it be possible to associate a short one line note with a "dir"
>  call? I've reached the point where I have so many files that I'm
>  often clueless as to the contents of many until I open the file and
>  discover that it is not the one I need. It would be nice if a short
>  note were associated with each file. Takala, the NB fellow, produced
>  a feature like this for NB4.5 (DOS), but he associated it with a
>  feature not unlike SAVESESS, which I do not think is necessary. I
>  think that I would associate it with CALLUP.
>
>  The Takala macro produced a line the reads like this:
>
>  C:\NB4\WORK\STJAMES.NB4    Jul-17-2001 9:36 AM ; Dennis document
>
>  "Dennis document" is my note.
>
>  C:\WALTON\TCANG10.TXT     06/28/1999 8:44 AM; Izaak Walton's
> "The Com
>
>
>  Here is another example.
>
>  This is just a suggestion. Perhaps it is not possible. Gosh, I
>  hope that it does not alread exist in U2.
>
>  M.W. Poirier