Joe Davis wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> More lines?  Not sure what you mean here...

 RJT> I don't think I've ever had a problem in this regard.  Though some 
 RJT> utility here (I think it was DLC) truncated some of my files.bbs 
 RJT> files to 256 character lines.  :-(

 JD> Max allows 1024 characters for the file description. That's about
 JD> 3 lines. Anything beyond that is a comment.

Ok.

 JD> When searching with either   F    or   L   , Max searches the
 JD> filenames and the description, not the comments.

I can't recall doing much in the way of searches here in max,  but have
observed a few when callers are on line.  I can't recall what they were
using (since you mention F or L) but seem to remember stuff showing up in
the comments as well.

 JD> Thus, if you are looking for something, and remember some words
 JD> from the description, and search for them.... you won't find them
 JD> if they are comments. 

Hmm.

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