Re: A suggestion....

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 Thank you. This works well. My settings are DF DI=0,6,1. I
 don't know if this makes a big difference. I'll change the
 "0" to "1024" and see what effect it has.

 Again, thank you.

 M.W. Poirier

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On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, David Auerbach wrote:

> 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
> Department of Philosophy & Religion
> Box 8103
> Raleigh, NC 27695-8103
>
> visit: http://www.slowfoodusa.org
>
> 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
> >
> >
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