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subject: Re: descrptions not showing in dir command

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Subject: Re: descrptions not showing in dir command
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 01:10:21 -0800
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On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 07:50:46 GMT, Michael Bednarek 
spewed:
>>When I do a dir of a directory with Take Command or 4DOS it doesn't show
>>the descriptions from the descript.ion.  The descript.ion was created by
>>ACDSee, which is supposed to create 4DOS compatible descriptions.  Does
>>anybody know how to get it to work, or what's wrong?
>
>On volumes which support long file names, 4DOS and TC must be used with
>the switch /Z to show descriptions. See .

Thank you so much, I was totally getting bugged by that.
No wonder I couldn't figure it out too!  "Use FAT"??!  What the hell does
that have to do with descriptions (that's what it says for the /z switch
if you do /?).
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