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Here's a trivial, yet very, very useful application of describe and
alias in 4DOS.

When adding files to monolithic directories that store files from many
unrelated products, such as the many unrelated drivers that are stored
in the MS-Windows system directory, be sure to use describe to attach
some common descriptive label onto each driver.  For example, my monitor
driver copies over many files into the system directory, and I used
the 4DOS describe command to attach this label to each one:
	For Taxan 1901

Now here's the neat part: define an alias - I call mine 'show' - that
lets you filter out just the drivers you are interested in seeing.  show
is defined as follows:
	show	if NOT .%1==. dir /o:i | egrep -i "%1"
	//note: the above assumes you have an egrep or grep program
	//on your system...it's not part of 4DOS
Now whenever I need to do maintenance on my system drivers I can go to
that directory and type:
	show taxan

And the output I see is something like this:

coure.fon       21360   2-27-91  17:01 For Taxan 1901
cti-lgo.old       976   5-01-90   3:00 For Taxan 1901
cti-rle.old     11518   5-01-90   3:00 For Taxan 1901
cti.gr2          2255   2-04-92  14:54 For Taxan 1901
cti40.fon       12800   9-23-91  13:34 For Taxan 1901
cti80.fon        6496   9-23-91  13:34 For Taxan 1901
ctiat.lgo         976   5-01-90   3:00 For Taxan 1901
helve.fon       59696   2-27-91  17:01 For Taxan 1901
small.drv       86784   2-10-92  10:38 For Taxan 1901
small.gr3       11776   2-06-92  17:56 For Taxan 1901
symbole.fon     39948   2-27-91  17:01 For Taxan 1901
tmsre.fon       53520   2-27-91  17:01 For Taxan 1901
vddcti.386      24327   2-10-92  11:09 For Taxan 1901
vgafix.fon       5776   2-27-91  17:01 For Taxan 1901
vgaoem.fon       5584   2-27-91  17:01 For Taxan 1901
vgasys.fon       6368   2-27-91  17:01 For Taxan 1901
cti.rle         11518   5-01-90   3:00 For Taxan 1901 (default Hercules also)
herclogo.rle    15808   3-01-92   3:10 For Taxan 1901 (default Hercules also)

This sure beats the hell out of having to parse through over 100 files
by hand, referring back to some written documentation to see which files
related to my driver are already in that directory.

This combination of describe with the alias is routinely saving me a ton 
of time.  You gotta love 4DOS!

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Will Estes		Internet: westes@netcom.com