Thanks for pointing me in the right direction at least. I can now search on "descript.ion".
I am able to see the descriptions when I log in to my ftp account, but if I just go to:
http://contextfree.org/k/
then the descriptions don't show up. (this is where I actually find them usefull to show up)
Also I want to know how to make "descript.ion" the equivalent of "hidden" in the MS world (ie so you can't see it on that page).
After some thought - would it just be better to do a server side include of some sort, or some PERL script to generate a directory listing (and make it look at the descript.ion file for the descriptions) within an index.html file in the /k (or other) directory?