I actually had a few free minutes today so I implemented the requested feature for bug#1889, have DIR command display descriptions from 4DOS's DESCRIPT.ION files if available.
Get from usual place, http://fdos.org/AutoIndex/index?dir=kernel/&file=cmdxms.HEAD.zip I would be interested if people try this build to let me know if they see a noticable delay when doing a 'dir' command or not, and if DESCRIPT.ION files are in use or not. There should not be a noticable delay if you do not use them (one attempt to open per directory displayed), but may be for big directories as the file is sequentially searched for each filename displayed (as the file is unsorted and may or may not contain a description I'm not sure how to avoid this). Because FreeCom will also display long filenames (when LFN API found and file appears to be short name), the description starts on the next line down; but otherwise displayed similar to how 4DOS displayed [given my minimal test of 4DOS displaying one]. No attempt is made to support creating/editing/copying/removing them, only displaying the descriptions if they exist during DIR. Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
