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From: sund@hurratio.tde.lth.se (Lars Sundstr|m)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Disk Catalog programs?
Keywords: DIRectory  Disk Catalog
Message-ID: <5639@hurratio.tde.lth.se>
Date: 28 Jul 88 09:53:44 GMT
Reply-To: sund@hurratio.UUCP (Lars Sundstrom)
Organization: Dept. of Applied Electronics, University of Lund, Sweden
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Anyone heard about DIRectory?

This is a disk catalog application which is somewhat
different compared with the competitors.

Some of the features:

* Disks are shown in a window with icons and names listed
  in alphabetic or chronologic order.

* It shows the files just as in Finder with icons and all.
  Even the correct positions of icons(small or normal sized)
  and windows are used.

* Clean up command replacing the position of files in
  alphabetic order.

* Smart Find File/Disk with whole or partial string either
  from beginning of catalog or from current selected position.

* "Get Info" command similar to the one found in Finder.

* Reports on paper with filter functions.

* Possible to merge catalog files

* Add/Delete/Update disks is simple to do.

* Launch/Transfer application either with the usual "getfile" dialog
  or double-click as in Finder if the corresponding disk
  is mounted.

* On-Line Help (even it isn't needed).

...and much more.


DIRectory v2.5 was released as shareware couple of months ago.
However, a faster and a much more powerful version (3.0) will be
released in the near future as a commercial product and is
guaranteed to hold at least 650 disks!

Two weeks ago I tested a beta version. I logged 110 disks
without quiting and generated a 190 pages report without any
problems at all.



Lars Sundstrom

/ DIRectory tester