DESC_NAR.COM -- Utility for Melding DESCRIPT.ION and NARATIVE.CF Files

     Version 1.1 -- June 1, 1994

          DESC_NAR is provided as a freeware adjunct to the CMFiler shareware
     disk/file manager for 4DOS/NDOS users.  Both CMFiler and 4DOS/NDOS have
     the capability to attach notes to files and directories, to help remind
     you of their contents.  The 4DOS/NDOS notes are contained in files in
     each directory called DESCRIPT.ION, the CMFiler notes in files called
     NARATIVE.CF.

          Unfortunately, I wrote CMFiler's notes facility before I had any
     knowledge of the convention and format already available in 4DOS/NDOS,
     and now the investment of time and risk of introducing logic errors into
     CMFiler's notes facility by attempting a rewrite it at this late date to
     shift to the 4DOS/NDOS DESCRIPT.ION convention is simply too great.

          So I have done the next best thing -- a conversion utility that
     searches any disk you wish for all appearances of the 4DOS/NDOS-style
     DESCRIPT.ION files and CMFiler-style NARATIVE.CF files, renames them to
     *.BAK to preserve the original information, melds their combined
     information, casts out duplicates, and generates new files in both
     formats in each directory in which either style file had originally
     appeared.

           Simply run DESC_NAR.COM at the DOS prompt by typing DESC_NAR.  You
     will be asked to press the letter of the drive you want searched and
     DESCRIPT.ION and NARATIVE.CF files melded, and, when that drive is done,
     whether you want to do another.  DESC_NAR requires 196k of free
     conventional memory.

          Version 1.1 accomodates entries in the DESCRIPT.ION file greater
     than 39 characters.  The previous version truncated any entries greater
     than 39 characters.

          DESC_NAR is provided by the author as a freeware utility to
     complement the CMFiler shareware disk/file manager.  It is offered as-is,
     and is not warranted in any way.  C. F. Martin is not responsible in any
     for any consequences arising from the use of DESC_NAR.

     Charles F. Martin
     NoVaSoft
     3239 Riverview Dr.
     Triangle, VA  22172-1421

     Phone  703-221-1471
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