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From: science@nems.ARPA (Mark Zimmermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: auto disk librarian/cataloger stack?
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Date: 7 Mar 88 19:10:20 GMT
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I'm looking for a way to automagically catalog the directories (files and
folders) on a bunch (100 or so) floppies ... is there already a stack to
do this?  I envision something (probably XFCN-driven) which would prompt
the user to insert a disk, would read the files/folders off that disk, and
then put the data into fields on a more-or-less standard stack like Disk
Librarian ... user could later go back and annotate, etc.
  I have a kludgey, partially-implemented solution which isn't entirely
satisfactory:
  - use HFS Backup (PCPC prog) to produce a text file of each disk's
directory info
  - write a script to import the directory text info into one card each
     But as mentioned earlier, it's slow and ugly.  Nice to have would
be info on each file's size, creation/modification date, etc. (as HFS
Backup provides, tab-delimited, in its listings).
     Any advice?  Many tnx ... ^z