Commit e74426fc authored by Richard Bowen's avatar Richard Bowen
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A little more clarity in DescriptionWidth. Better phrasing recommended by Bill... 

A little more clarity in DescriptionWidth. Better phrasing recommended by Bill Rowe on SuppressDescription


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@@ -623,7 +623,8 @@ width of the description column in characters.</dd> 
<dd><samp>-DescriptionWidth</samp> (or unset) allows mod_autoindex to calculate 

the best width.</dd>

<dd><samp>DescriptionWidth=n</samp> fixes the column width to n bytes wide.</dd>

<dd><samp>DescriptionWidth=*</samp> grows the column to the necessary width.</dd>

<dd><samp>DescriptionWidth=*</samp> grows the column to the width necessary to

accomodate the longest description string.</dd>

<dd><b>See the section on <a href="#adddescription"><samp>AddDescription</samp></a>

for dangers inherent in truncating descriptions.</b></dd>

<DT><A NAME="indexoptions:fancyindexing">FancyIndexing</A>
@@ -681,8 +682,8 @@ software. 
<DD>

<!--%plaintext &lt;?INDEX {\tt IgnoreClient} index option&gt; -->

This option causes mod_autoindex to ignore all query variables from the

client, including sort order (implies <EM><A 

 HREF="#indexoptions:suppresscolumnsorting">SuppressColumnSorting</A></EM>.)

client, including sort order (implies <SAMP><A 

 HREF="#indexoptions:suppresscolumnsorting">SuppressColumnSorting</A></SAMP>.)

<DT><A NAME="indexoptions:namewidth">NameWidth=[<EM>n</EM> | *] (<EM>Apache 1.3.2 and later</EM>)</A>

<DD>

The NameWidth keyword allows you to specify the width of the
@@ -712,7 +713,7 @@ That behavior is now controled by <A HREF="#indexoptions:ignoreclient" 
<DD>

<!--%plaintext &lt;?INDEX {\tt SuppressDescription} index option&gt; -->

This will suppress the file description in fancy indexing listings.

By default, files have no descriptions, and so the use of this option

By default, no file descriptions are defined, and so the use of this option

will regain 23 characters of screen space to use for something else.

See <A HREF="#adddescription"><samp>AddDescription</samp></A> 

for information about setting the file description. See also the