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From: harrow@bagels.dec.com (Jeff Harrow, NCSE BXB1-2/E02 DTN=293-5128)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: My 'disk catalog' overfloweth!  Help!
Message-ID: <8712270234.AA21755@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 27 Dec 87 02:34:47 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Well, here  it is a day after Christmas, and having eaten my fill
of turkey (too many times) and played with my new toys, I felt it
was finally time to get to that odious task I've been putting off
for so many months:

Cataloging that box of diskettes...

So, I faithfully cranked up Micro Disk Cataloger (MDC II, V2.1b).
All went well until I got  JUST  to  the end of the box, at which
time the program indicated that 'it didn't  have enough memory to
read that disk'.

Experimentation  indicated  that even running without Multifinder
on a  2  Meg.    Mac  II,  it was apparently limited by something
internal to the program, not by the system memory (I think it was
written in Forth).  WHAT A PAIN!

I checked my friendly  MacUser  to  see if there might be a later
version of the program, but it didn't show MDC II in its "current
version" nor Quick Clicks sections.

So, my questions:

o Is it a current product?    If  so, what is its current version
and  who  can  I contact (I can't find a number  for  New  Cannon
Microcode)?

o Alternately, have any of you had  good  experience  with a disk
cataloger?    Which ones?  Were they limited  in  the  number  of
diskettes they could keep track of?

o Does anyone have any 'heavy' experience with "Disk Rngr", which
came across the net recently?  What are its limitations?

Thanks, and WATCH OUT!

Jeff Harrow

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