RJT> 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.

Hmmmm....  I think we may be mixing some things up here.

I know max prompts for up to three lines for files uploaded.  I have few of
those these days.  My new files mainly come in via file bones, with .TIC
files.  I believe I'm breaking lines so that the lines in FILES.BBS are no
more than 80 characters.  The locate command is definately searching more
than the first three lines, but I suspect you are correct about max not
searching more than the first 1024 characters of a file description.  At
1024 characters, I believe the file description would be over one
"page" long on my normal 80x24 character screen setup..... 
[continuation lines have a fair amount of inserted white space for display]
 And locate is find stuff in the 12th line in this setup.  Yes, the F)ile
command, given a specific file name or searching for new files in a given
area will only print the first line of the description.  L)ocate will print
the full description.  The F)ile command with no limitations prints
everything, so you see the full description that way....


 RJT> Ok.

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

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

Are you running the additional lines as continuation lines, with the proper
character in the proper starting column?

How long are your file description lines?  Are you using the method that
puts the information all on one line instead of the way I'm doing it?

Thanks.

Bob Jones, 1:343/41

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