Hi Steve,

> Is the issue that the short description is the same as the long? Every BBS I'
> seen gets the short description from the long description. VFileSyn is
> functioning correctly.

The issue is (and isn't) that the short comes from the long.  Most files.bbs
files that I've encountered are multi-lined which makes it easier to build the
short descriptions - just take the first line and voila, a short description.

With a single-line description it would seem that the first N characters would
have be your short description which is what I observe VFileSyn's native
behavior to be.  This requires one to make sure the first five or six words of
their description end on a whitespace boundary or else get part of a word
truncated, which is what appears to happening in my case.

>
> I can make up a custom format if you like if you require a different short
> description.

If you could, that would be wonderful.  When one manually uploads a file, the
option to provide a short and a long description (which may or may not be
different from each other) is given.  I certainly think having VFileSyn mimic
this and read in both a short and long description would be beneficial.

Thanks for all of your help!
Larry


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