BL> I have no idea what your files.20 format may be, but if it creates a
BL> text file with length in that file, then it must be possible to find
BL> the entry in the original format... whatever it is that causes
BL> "archived" to appear in the output.

No, "I" just specify the name of the file and the description. 
The file-list-generator finds out the size etc itself.

PE> At that point I decided to go with a "DELETE THIS FILE"
PE> description as the easiest option for me.

BL> But it's not going to get the result, is it? An *automatic* way to
BL> remove aero-length files from both your disc and the FILES list.

I want it removed from the source, which is FILES.20.  I am already
removing it from the disk.  

BL> At least my solution would achieve that. Your loony program that

DOWNSORT was not written by me.  It is a native OS/2 program.  I am happy
to replace it with your native OS/2 program that does the same thing, only
better.  You just haven't sent it to me, yet.

BL> I didn't write my Pascal utility for you anyway... I did it to show 
BL> you how easy and quick it is to read\write a large text file and remove 
BL> lines in Pascal. In C you have to do it character-by-character, identify
BL> the key phrase, find the cr/lf and then backtrack and stuff around in
BL> general.

???  I think you need to look up fgets() and strstr().  Anyway, that's not
where I want it fixed.

PE> Also, I want it to fix up the files.20. The solution I have,
PE> although annoying, does actually cover both of those technical
PE> requirements.

BL> No it doesn't. It only works if the file sent to erase is zero
BL> length AND has the magic phrase. 

Yes, which is why I documented that procedure.

BL> Give it ten minutes and no one here
BL> will ever get that phrase correct. It's worse than annoying... it just
BL> isn't going to work in practice.

Use a template, use a program, get it right, or don't put files in there.

PE> If you were to write a C program to do that, it would cover
PE> both technical requirements too. Actually, I can do the "DIR"
PE> in my cmd file, so you only need to open two text files, and
PE> either create a 3rd output file containing commands, or call
PE> system().

BL> Your problem is that you'd end up with a files.20 with the names of
BL> thousands of zero-length files that no longer exist. I also find it
BL> strange that you'd write a BAT file rather than just do it in a simple
BL> utility.

My MNTFILE.CMD?  I need to call downsort, you want me to write a C program
with a system() call to do that?  A C program consisting entirely of
system() calls?!  I'll post files.20 here for you...

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2MORE.ZIP     2 more avtechers
3DRVS150.ARJ  some device driver something-or-other
555TV.ZIP     555 calculator in BC/TurboVision with source
ALLSWAGS.ZIP  SWAG (SourceWare Archival Group) Pascal snippets 9511 release
AMISE211.ZIP  amisetup
APDHLP.EXE    No description available
APDTR.EXE     No description available
APRLMAIL.ZIP  Excel 3 Spreadsheet of AVT messages for the month of April
ARROWASM.ZIP  Arrowsoft freeware assembler
ATMEL.ZIP     Atmel 8051-clone with EEPROM. Spec sheets, sample ADC app
AVTGIFS.ZIP   Dickheads anonymous
AWK320.ZIP    AWK 3.20, fancy text processing language sort of derived from
sed and grep
BBS9509.LZH   Sept '95 Australian BBS list
BELINDA.JPG   Belinda's first Photo session
BERNIE.JPG    A happy snap of Bernie
BGFAXB01.ARJ  some sort of faxing thing?
BLJTEST.ZIP   Blackjack calculations by John Tserkezis's uncle
BLAKJACK.ZIP  Blackjack calculations by Frank Malcolm
CACHCHK4.ZIP  Checks motherboard cache and RAM
CALCPI.ARJ    Calculate Pi to 157,000 places for T.E.
CDPRICES.ZIP  Some CD prices
CLASS1.ZIP    Some fax thing?
CLASS2.ZIP    Another fax thing??
CONTAIN.ZIP   No description available
CRC_V3.LZH    Some info on CRCs from a post in comp.compression
DCC_1.ZIP     Something from Dieter
DELPHI.ZIP    No description available
DISKTEST.ZIP  CORETEST - Hard Disk Performance Test Report
EIDE.EXE      Windows help file from Western Digital with Caviar product
and tech manual, and explanation of EIDE
ELLE1.ZIP     Special Delivery for the facist sysop, Paul Edwards.
EPSTS324.ZIP  Very complete list of Telecoms charges, including flexiplans
FDFORM.ZIP    Formats floppies larger
FMKENO01.ZIP  Krazy Keno
FMKENO02.ZIP  Krazy Keno
FMTRAIN1.ZIP  Frank's train?
FRANK.JPG     A picture of Frank
FREQUENC.ARJ  List of General scanner frequencies
GANDR.ZIP     2 pics of the lady, 1 of the lady's man
GOODBMPS.ZIP  Some pleasant BMPs care of Bill Grimsley and Brenton Vettoretti.
GZ_SET.ARJ    Who knows
HOME25.ZIP    House Floorplan layout Pgm - For Paul
HPFS4DOS.ZIP  hpfs for dos
HPFSA02B.ZIP  read + write hpfs from dos
JOIN4BOB.ZIP  A Pascal PKTJOIN for Bob Lawrence and anyone else who wants
to look at it
JPGTEST.ZIP   Some example JPG files?
KKENO05.ZIP   The FINAL version of Krazy Keno
LAN_BBS.REP   Creates folders in Windows program manager
MAILORD.ZIP   Mail order list from alt.music.progressive for Dieter.
MATT.TST      Test file for testing with Matthew
MAYBEBU2.ZIP  File for Paul to track a possible bug in QWK2PKT
MAYBEBUG.ZIP  File for Paul to track a possible bug in QWK2PKT
MC314PC1.ZIP  DDC Micro-C compiler. v3.14 (executables)
MC314PC2.ZIP  DDS Micro-C Compiler. v3.14 (Example source)
MS040496.PRN  MicroSol price lists in printable format (date DDMMYY)
MS110396.WRI  MicroSol price lists in Write format (with date of DDMMYY)
MS130396.WRI  MicroSol price lists in Write format (with date of DDMMYY)
MSGED4MP.ZIP  Msged 4 with an option to display origin line without kludges
NCC1701D.ZIP  OS/2 Bitmap of NCC1701D towing a broken-down M$ Windows logo
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NIELSFNT.ZIP  For Niels on wheels
OS2-ROB.ZIP   OS2 cache file text
PAULWORK.TXT  Absolute junk
PAYPAUL.JPG   A $50 note
PEWOW.ZIP     Problem with Wizard of Wor
PHONE1.ZIP    A phone application in Clarion
PHYSFAQ.ZIP   sci.physics FAQ, for frank if he's interested
PIC12000.PDF  Microchip PIC12000, Adobe acrobat formate
PIC14000.PDF  Microchip PIC14000 Datasheets in PDF format
POINT168.ARJ  Professional point v1.68. Very easy to set up point system.
Needs binkley or similar as a front end.
POINT192.ZIP  Professional point
POLICE.ARJ    Scanner frequencies for NSW police.
PRICK.TXT     An incredibly boring TEST file
RUNWORD7.BAS  Moving message display program for David Begley
SCSIFAQ.ZIP   SCSI frequently asked questions
SEEVESTA.ZIP  Finder charts for asteroid Vesta for May 1996
SFREQ_1.ZIP   Scanner Frequency list for Police & Bushfire
SMART.EXE     ver 4.1 of smartdrv, only compat with dos6
SPEED600.ARJ  Landmark benchmark version 6.00
SS24B.ARJ     Share Spell V2.4B - Text spell checker.
STAIRWAY.ARJ  Led Zep Stairway to Heaven MOD remake For Brenton V.
SYSOPSUX.TXT  An incredibly rude file about sysops
TELC_CHG.ZIP  Telecom charges
TELSTRAP.ZIP  A protest against Telstra
THEREF43.ZIP  List of drives or something
TINYP005.ZIP  TinyPOINT - Become a point using Telix
TREKOS2.ZIP   BMP of The Enterprise 1701D shooting the Windoze Logo.
VALLINK.ZIP   VAL Freeware linker
VBRUN300.ZIP  Dunno
VCRPLUS.ARJ   Ask Rod Gasson
VCRPLUS.ZIP   Ask Rod Gasson
WARREN.GIF    Cartoon from Sydney Telegraph on 02-03-96 AM
WFX304.ZIP    High Speed COMs & FAX drivers for Windoze 3.1
WIN4HEIR.ZIP  Foders for Win3.1 Prog Manager
WINFAX.ZIP    WinFax Technical Bulletins from Delrina
MS180396.PRN  Microsol price list
MS180396.WRI  Microsol price list
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