Hello Jorj,
 \|/  Subject:  orphaned descriptions
 /|\  On Monday April 13 1998 at 00:15, 
      you wrote to Gerald Miller saying:
 GM>> This is one of those apples versus oranges comparisons...
 JS>  Both will work.  One uses the command explicitly designed for it, and
 JS>  one accomplishes it by the back door.
These are the kind of things that are not totally clear within the help file, 
but I guess there is only so much you can put into an on-line help file...
 JS>  I think my comment was a remnant of thinking that you were trying to
 JS>  save DESCRIPT.ION, not save a description it it.
Most people worry about saving a file; I like to worry about saving a little 
description because I dislike repetitive typing  ,-))
 GM>> when I did a DIR listing and then viewed the descript.ion file
 GM>> afterwards, the filenames and descriptions were gone.
 JS>  Odd.  I hadn't thought that DIR alone cleared orphans.  Only deleting
 JS>  or moving seems to in some quick tests.
This could be because of my alias for one of the DIR commands -- uses some 
switches and a pipe command...
 GM>> Number one: Delete ALL the ANTI-VIR.DAT files on ALL drives, in ALL
 GM>> directories and subdirectories (without updating the description for
 GM>> this file in DESCRIPT.ION).
 JS>  Is the description the same everywhere?
Yes.  It's just too much bother to "customize" the description for every 
directory.  
 JS>  Because if it is, it's probably easier to globally recreate it than
 JS>  preserve it.
 GM>> How would one "read" the DESCRIPT.ION file and verify that
 GM>> ANTI-VIR.DAT is described only once?
 JS>  Personally, I wouldn't.  I'd just redescribe the file.  That process
 JS>  would prune the DESCRIPT.ION file in the unlikely event there are
 JS>  duplicates.
I think this is the best possibility.  I'll refer back to one of your 
previous messages where you talked about an AVD variable...
 JS>  Or one could do
 JS>      ffind /a:h /v /t"*anti-vir.dat*" descript.ion
I took your above line, added a "/s" between the /v /t and ran it from the 
root directory.  I like this command and can think of a few other uses for 
it.  Pity that I've not used it sooner...
 JS>  That gets you a full list.  You could redirect that to a file, and
 JS>  then grab the penultimate word on the last line of that file:
 JS>      %@word[-1,[%@line[$di,%@lines[$di]]]
 JS>  for the number of appearances
I haven't tried the above command because I'm not sure how it could be used. 
Perhaps a small BTM example...
              G'Day ... Gerald
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