Hi,

> On Dec 31, 2018, at 8:44 AM, TK Chia <u1049321...@caramail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Jerome,
> 
>> The short answer is — At present, the online repo management tools do not 
>> support multi-line descriptors. Everything after the first line is ignored.
>> So, stuff on additional lines is excluded from the automatically generated 
>> web pages, rss feed and listing.csv files. This is mostly do to shear 
>> laziness on my part.
>> Eventually, I will get around to making version 3 of the repo management 
>> utilities. Partly for performance, partly for multi-platform support, partly 
>> to make it easier for others to use, partly due to some other stuff. Lots of 
>> little reasons. But, I keep procrastinating and putting it off.
>> :-)
> 
> Well, thank you for the information. :)
> 
> On my end, I have tweaked my gcc-ia16 toolchain build files, to avoid 
> multi-line descriptions in the .lsm's for now.  I guess though that it is a 
> bit late into the FreeDOS 1.3 release schedule to have this change included...

The 1.3 release is a little behind schedule and RC1 hasn’t shipped yet. Once it 
does, from that point on, only bug fixes for the release will be made. So, you 
update may make it into 1.3. After all, it’s a (not really) “bug fix” and not a 
new package.




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