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From: marwk@levels.sait.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Cataloging Pgm for 20,000 files?
Message-ID: <15717.27512939@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 26 Nov 90 14:39:53 GMT
References: <2650002@hparc0.HP.COM>
Organization: Sth Australian Inst of Technology
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In article <2650002@hparc0.HP.COM>, doug@hparc0.HP.COM (Doug Parsons) writes:
> Does anyone know of a program, shareware, pub. domain, commercial (yes, I'm
> that desperate)  that can index, catalog, sort, etc. pc files?
>
> Yes, I know that there are several, but I've tried about 10 and none can
> handle the number of files I've got.  I have 9000 files on my 330mb drive,
> of which over 1000 are .ZIP (archived) files.  The program must be able to
> handle .ZIP files and open them so that I can index their contents.  That
> would bring the number of files up to about 20,000.
>
> All the programs I've tried attempt to hold the file name and info in base
> memory, so of course are limited to 640k.  I need one that either uses
> expanded, extended, or disc memory to do the sorting, reporting etc.
>
> Any hope out there?
>
> Doug Parsons
> (doug@hparc0.hp.com)

I have had the same problem.

So I wrote my own - it can handle 32,000 files on the one disk as well
as an unlimited number of files altogether.

I will upload it as shareware if I receive enough requests ( and therefore
can expect enough money).  It took me about 80 hours to create it.
There are currently 3 users besides myself and so far no bugs.

How can I release it as shareware?

Ray