A. NEW FEATURES IN XDIR VERSION 2.02

      This Version of XDIR has been substantially rewritten. It
      is the first version to use Turbo Pascal 4.0 and incorporates
      a number of new features.

      Comment field increased to 65 characters from 38.
      Scroll up and down through directory display.
      Number of directory elements increased to 1024.
      Number of files that can be copied or moved in one command is 1024.
      Directory now shows file attributes.
      Sort on comment field is included.
      Average comment file size is decreased.
      XDCNVRT.EXE is provided to change from earlier versions.
      Memory requirements have been decreased.
      Operation is noticeably faster.
      Compatibility with Keyboard enhancers has been improved.
      Comments can be attached to directories.
      Quick writing can be toggled off for improved compatability.
      XDIR defaults can be altered using the DOS SET command.


    B. CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS TO MANUAL

        P.7  Reference to F9 in first paragraph should be changed to
             Space Bar.

        P.8 Users with IBM Color Graphics adapters will probably prefer
            to use the /Q option.  See page 10 to customize XDIR to
            automatically use /Q.

        P.9  Sec 2 needs further discussion of XDCOUNT:

                The file is now XDCOUNT.EXE instead of XDCOUNT.COM.
                This makes no differnec to how it is to be used.  The
                new version of XDCOUNT is more robust than earlier ones.
                You should find it more accomodating to the various
                other TSRs that you use.

                XDCOUNT monitors all file openings, and writes the
                file path/name and current date to C:\XDIR.DTA. This
                file is not meant for direct access by people.  It is
                used by XDUPDATE. If you load it into a text editor you
                will see a lot of garbage mixed in with recognizable
                names of files that you have accessed.

                Whenever DOS executes a batch file, it OPENS the file once
                for each line in the file - more if there are loops in the
                batch program.  XDCOUNT sees each of these as a file open-
                ing.  Since we would like to count one actual use of a
                batch file only once, XDCOUNT recognizes the problem  and
                reports only one usage to XDIR.DTA.  We did not find a
                perfect solution to this problem however.  There are a
                few cases where XDIR will report more than one batch
                file usage each time you call the batch file. If your
                batch file executes a .COM or .EXE program, and then
                returns for further lines, XDIR will show more than one
                'use' of this file.  For example, consider the following
                two batch files:

                ONCE.BAT
                              cls
                              Echo This is Batch file first
                              Echo Each time you run it, XDIR will
                              Echo count only one usage.

               THRICE.BAT
                             XDIR
                             Echo This line is the second use of THRICE
                             Echo This line does NOT add one more usage
                             XDIR
                             Echo This line is counted as a third usage.