Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:20908 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:1277 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: DESCRIBE.TXT Message-ID: Date: 4 Nov 88 22:03:50 GMT References: <7377@dasys1.UUCP> <7409@dasys1.UUCP> Sender: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University Lines: 26 In-reply-to: tneff@dasys1.UUCP's message of 4 Nov 88 05:54:39 GMT In article <7409@dasys1.UUCP> tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes: In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: >How about "pkxarc *.arc *.dsc", which gives a real quick look at all of >the archive files in the subdirectory? How about "zoo lc *" which does the same thing for ZOO files? You put in the comments. ... 1) Because you only get the one-line comment, and 2) Because you can't use a text editor on the comment. Even in arc-land, how about "arce * readme /p | more", which pages you through the readme files? (I don't know whether the odious Katzware shares this basic functionality.) Because, as I said before, README can be several line, several paragraphs, or several pages. No consistency. >README is insufficient to convince lusers why they would want to bother ^^^^^^ >with a package. I want something where my lusers can do a quick scan ... ^^^^^^ I meant Real Users. Apologies if any were offended. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) To surrender is to remain in the hands of barbarians for the rest of my life. To fight is to leave my bones exposed in the desert waste.