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From: barry@primerd.prime.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Floppy Cataloger Wanted
Message-ID: <160700012@primerd>
Date: 13 Mar 89 19:36:00 GMT
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Nf-From: primerd.prime.com!barry    Mar 13 14:36:00 1989



In spite of having a hard drive, I've still accumulated a large
number of floppies.  I'd like to use the hard drive for work in
progress and keep "archival" or infrequently used files on floppies
organized into appropriate sets, e.g. presentations, papers, games,
...

I'd like to be able to generate catalogs of sets of floppies.  I've
looked at or tried a number of cataloging applications available in
SUMEX or SIMTEL archives. None of them do the job I want.  Disk
Librarian 1.82 comes the closest, but has a major wart - unless you
remember to hold down the mouse when clicking on the start up screen
it proceeds to catalog the hard drive.  Similarly, if you try to save
a catalog, it does the save and then catalogs the hard drive!  If it
weren't so agressive in trying to catalog the hard drive, Disk
Librarian might be acceptable. Dir-Actary ALMOST does what I want,
but for some reason it doesn't include the disk name in the outline
it builds.

I'm looking for a floppy catalog program (either PD, SW, or
commercial) that will let me generate a master catalog for a set of
floppies by feeding the floppies in one by one, let me save the
catalog in some appropriate form, and then let me make incremental
changes to the catalog by processing JUST the floppies that I've changed.
I'd like to be able to either print the catalog appropriately
formatted or browse through it on-line.  Browsing could be supported
by either a textual form of the catalog used with an editor or by a
browsing tool (preferably a DA) specific to the cataloger.

Can anyone recommend such a package?  I'm interested in both postive
and negative information.

Please respond by mail.  I'll post a summary if sufficent replies
are received.

Thanks in advance
         Barry

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Principal Technical Consultant    | 492 Old Connecticut Path
Prime Computer                    | Framingham, MA 01701
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