DIZCRIBE describes all the archive files you want. It cooperates with 4DOS's DESCRIPTION ability. Nothing more to say: use 4DOS ! (Be sure to have your `MaxDescription` variable in the 4DOS.INI file as large as possible (>= 480).) It also uses description- files from the archives: FILE_ID.DIZ or DESC.SDI. The description from these FILE_ID.DIZ's are stored in DESCRIPT.ION and voila, the description appears when typing DIR. Usage: 4DIZ [options] filename ... where options is a combination of: /q quiet mode ("absolutely no text" displayed) /t truncate lines from descriptions /f fill in short lines with spaces /s smart describing: only the first one of a serie /v very smart describing: the first description is divided over the whole serie /n describe ALL files (not just those without a description ) /e exclude lines with less than /c alphanumerical characters and exclude the "@X**"-codes /c followed by the minimum amount of alphanumerical characters (default 4) /m followed by the maximum amount of lines of description per archive (default, maximum 12) /r recurse into subdirectory's /b don't replace spaces with ascii 255 /d display mode with lots of intresting information /p pause after each file in display mode /h or /? this screen and filename ... is a list of filenames or wildcards. It's possible (and preferable) to use the 4DIZ.INI file. There are a few limits: This program can only recognize a command-line of less than 127 characters. And when describing a directory with over 2000 files, a memory allocation error will probably occur. To use the 4DIZ.INI file and this 4DHELP.TXT file, please add "SET 4DIZ_PATH=drive:\path" to your AUTOEXEC.BAT (without the quotes and drive and path substituted by the drive and the path where 4DIZ.INI and 4DHELP.TXT resides).