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From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Organizing my disks
Summary: AppleWorks...
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Date: 25 Nov 89 23:43:44 GMT
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In article <18.feeds.info-apple@pro-tcc> lvirden@pro-tcc.cts.COM (Larry Virden) writes:
>I need help organizing all the 3.5 and 5.25 inch disks around here.  I would
[ snip ]
>Isnt there some software out there somewhere which would let me spend a few
>days shoving disks in and out of my drives and end up with a COMPACT database
>of what files are on what disks?  I could then generate reports, search for
>names, etc.

Try AppleWorks.  You can stick all the info you want into the Zoomed view,
then just have the vital info on the tabular view mode.

This doesn't automate the process, but very few programs support ProDOS and
DOS 3.3, and you'd end up with a lot of extra file listings anyway (like
BASIC.SYSTEM listed 200 times).

About the best you can do is to sit down, take your (hopefully NUMBERED)
disks, and look at each one in turn.  Decide BEFORE YOU START what information
you want to keep; obviously filename and disk # are necessary, but you may
also want the filetype (small programs), #of disks required (large programs),
a brief description, a category (utility? game? 2-4 characters should do),
whether it runs under DOS 3.3 or ProDOS (or neither if it's copy protected),
if it's a freeware, shareware, or a commercial product, if it's GS-specific
or not, etc, etc, etc.

I have a rather large library, and I find AppleWorks well suited.  Being
able to print the list to the word processor is especially nice, because I
can print it into a file containing a description of all the cryptic
symbols I'm using...  And if all you want is a quick list of files by disk
or of disks by file, AW's record selection rules let you do it easily.

>Larry W. Virden                 ProLine: pro-tcc!lvirden

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