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From: mw22+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Alan Wertheim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: PRODOS and CATALOG again
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Date: 26 Jan 89 20:40:00 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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If you're using DOS 3.3, none of the mentioned methods of capturing a catalog
will work, because when you do PRINT CHR$(4)"CATALOG", any reading or writing of
text files is suspended until you issue another PRINT CHR$(4)"READ FILE" or
PRINT CHR$(4)"WRITE FILE".

I wrote a utility a few years ago that would read the catalog from a disk using
RWTS and then copy the filenames, types, and sizes into arrays.  I don't have it
around anymore, but if you need it, I guess I could rewrite it for you.


Michael Wertheim
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

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