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From: "Klaus Meinhard" 
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.4dos,fido.4dos
Subject: Re: problem editing descript.ion
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 09:54:25 +0200
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> Is there a way to combine the info of 2 descript.ion files into one
> and have it still work?  I've tried this and it disappears ALL the
> descriptions.  However, it will let me edit a descript.ion file in a
> text editor as long as I don't add any more filenames.  Am I having
> this problem because the files have to be in the order they're on the
> disk, and/or every filename in the descript.ion has to exist in the
> directory it's in?

The description file for files in directory c:\foo has to be in
directory c:\foo. Each dir has it's own descript.ion  file.

You can edit the descriptions with any editor, as you have found out.
But it`s hard to imagine where the combination of 2 description files
would be necessary: 4DOS/4NT handles copying/moving/deleting/renaming of
descriptions along with the corresponding files action. In other words:
it�s possible to do it, but it should not be necessary.

--
Viele Gr�sse, best regards,

*Klaus Meinhard*
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