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From: bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Adding comments to ZOOs
Keywords: zoo, comments
Message-ID: <202@orchid.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Jul 89 17:42:47 GMT
Followup-To: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Organization: Warwick Business School
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Since starting to use `zoo', I have found the addition and editing of
multiline comments painful. There is no way of editing earlier lines during
`zoo cA' calls.

However, I've just discovered that an edited file of comments can be piped
in. So I now have a simple recipe.

To add a considered multiline header,
     * edit a file, fheader, of the form
           text refined to the usual n-th degree
           /end
     * type
           zoo cA zoohive < fheader .

To add a set of comments for each file,
     * edit a file, fcomments, of the form
           considered comment on file 1
           /end
           :
           considered comment on file 2
           /end
       with no empty lines
     * type
           zoo c zoohive < fcomments .

Editing comments already in place requires the comments to be extracted,
edited, and piped back in. Or a copy of fheader and fcomments to be kept in
the zoohive.

Not perfect. But easier than retyping.

Or has Rahul got an even easier way?

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