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From: fsdmb3@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (BRAUN DAVID M)
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Subject: Re: cataloging your disks
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Date: 14 Jul 90 07:37:04 GMT
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In article <1878@engage.enet.dec.com>, wallace@ynotme.enet.dec.com (Ray Wallace) writes...
> 
>>>   (1)	What software do you ... use
>>>	to keep your library in order?
>Since you insist. I used to use uEmacs, the current librarian and the
>librarian before me both just use an editor to create and update the list.
>As far as maintaining the disks, it is just a matter of copying (and sometimes
>deleting) files as appropriate.
> 
Good Greif!  You do all that by hand!  Get Dscan100 or DskCat or HDScan from
your local FTP site, Terminator has them all.  Both floppy programs "suck"
in the directory of your floppys and you can sort through them and keep them
in order.  I couldn't imagine doing all this by hand.  They all allow searching
for files or folders on ANY disk in the data base, it is easy to update when 
you change your disks or files.
  HDScan reads all the directorys of your hard drives and lets you find things
regardles of how deep they are nested or hidden from you in folders.
  I just hate to see people doing work that can be done automatically by
computers, this is what we have them for isn't it?
				8-)
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David M. Braun				   		    FSDMB3@ALASKA.BITNET
						     fsdmb3@acad3.fai.alaska.edu
University of Alaska, Fairbanks		     Where it's mild when it's 40 below.
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