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- Compact Dir 3
- "CD3"
- (c) 1989,90 Chet Walters
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- This is a quick and dirty way to get a nice compact printout of your
- hard drive directory. Good to use just before a back up or just to keep
- a record. It uses the smallest printing mode of both the HP Deskjet (and
- I assume the HP LaserJet) and also superscript mode of an Epson compat.
- This baby will fit a list of about 10 meg worth of files (8 meg with an
- Epson) onto ONE PAGE for easy cross referencing and quick referencing. Works
- VERY fast too. If you have an HP, you can save some ink by selecting DRAFT
- on the front panel switches. The program does not change that setting.
-
- Just choose your printer from the buttons and choose your drives. The
- rest is history. By the way, if you wish it to run with your printer
- pre-selected, just SHIFT-CLICK the printer button of your choice and it
- will give you the opportunity to save that configuration.
-
- This is not only for hard drives really. Just select the SUPRESS FORM
- FEED BUTTON and the buttons for both DRIVE A and DRIVE B then place a disk
- into each drive and smack the RETURN key. Once those drives have been
- dumped, slide in two more disks and smack the RETURN key again. Repeat the
- process until you have the compact catalog you need.
-
- Compact Dir does not print hidden files or empty directories.....
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- *************** Update Info **********************
-
- The current release of Compact Dir (version CD3) will print a
- verbose listing including bytes used and free for drives/partitions and
- also bytes used and number of items for subdirectories. Along with that,
- CD3 has the ability to sort on all of the standard fields (NONE NAME DATE
- SIZE TYPE). It will also mask out any files that do not match an optional
- extender list into which you can enter up to ten extenders. To assist you
- in locating the IMAGE files you would like to print with any of the CAT
- programs, just enter a list of extenders such as:
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- PI? PC? TN? IMG MAC NEO
-
- and all your Degas, Tiny, IMG, MAC and NEO pics will be listed ONLY. To
- get a quick readout of your drives and their present USED/FREE space,
- enter an extender such as "3XY" or "SEX" or some such extender that you
- know no files on the drives will have. All the files will be skipped
- and only the drive info will get printed.
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- For this release, CD3 has been fixed so that there will no longer be a
- need to set any DIP switches on the HP DeskJet. The earlier problem with
- this was due to differences in the ROMs of the early DJ's as compared to
- the later models.
-
- *********** UPDATE NOTICE 7/27/90 CDAR VERSION
- CD3 has been made compatible with the CDAR 504 and MetaDOS (though it
- will still only access drives A thorugh P). There is a slight drawback
- which may be considered a feature by many of you. CD's have an awsome
- amount of data on them and that taxed the original CD3.PRG's limits
- (especially for 1 meg machines). This one will read up to a maximum
- of 3000 items (that includes folders and files) at a time, then it MUST
- print them before it reads any more. However, you can make this a feature
- by changing that parameter if you like down to 1000 or less items per pass.
- You can use the pause for each pass to flop over the paper and print on
- the backside if you like (for those ecology minded individuals, this
- is a real selling point <hee hee>). Just click continue. To set the
- pass limits and the pause, click on the very bottom box of the dialog
- then answer the questions truthfully. BTW - CD's are always full.
-
- NOTE: If you have drives for all formats available with MetaDOS then
- you MUST NOT (I repeat __ MUST NOT __) choose to print C THROUGH P. If
- MetaDOS attempts to read a drive (eg format) that does not match that of
- the disc in the drive then boom city (crash). No bones, that's the way
- it is. Use CHOOSE instead and just dump your current CD (drive). If
- you are unclear about this, then you must not have read the manual that
- came with the CDAR and MetaDOS. I know, I didn't get one or the other
- and found this out the hard way. Anyway, just make sure that you do
- CHOOSE a drive that is format compatible with the disc in the CDAR. If
- there's a High Sierra format disc in there and your drive J is set for
- ISO9660 and you try to print drive J instead of drive K which you have
- set for High Sierra, then reboot. Sometimes it will recover and if it
- does, then you must pop the CDAR door open then close it again to make
- MetaDOS recognize the disk. I have found that MS_DOS <cough> disks from
- the big blue world can be ISO or often High Sierra (but you gotta try
- them first to find out (the hard way).
-
- Ummmm, just a final note. The GEM (Meta) DOS functions fsfirst and
- fsnext work EXTREMELY slowly on a CD because of the immense data
- on these discs. You'll have to wait it out. Try this program on your
- harddrive if you think it's CD3_CDAR that's holding things up. It ain't.
-
- Tested and compatible with MetaDOS v1.7 released June 13, 1990 and
- copyright Atari Corp. 1990 by Mike Schmall.
-
- This program was developed in cooperation with:
- COMPUTER ROCK
- 3785 Balboa St.
- San Francisco, CA 94121
- (415) 751-8573
-
- At present, the guys (Carl Bacani especially) at COMPUTER ROCK seem to
- be the only ones really pushing development on the CDAR 504 right now.
- They deserve your support. They offer an incredible ST SoftWare PD and
- ShareWare library of 150 megs on one disc! They also have a CD full of
- excellent clip art with which is bundled a special version of IMAGE CAT
- designed just for the CDAR 504 (eg, IMAGE CAT is free with the disk!)
- Call them and ask about it. Then call or write Atari Corp and tell them
- to get this thing to market so we can all buy one. By the way, the
- Atari CDAR 504 plays Led Zeplin damned good too! In fact, I'm listening
- to it right now with the headphones as I type! And, if I want to access
- the clip art disc and whatnot, all I gotta do is pop ol' Jimmy Page out
- and pop the ST Clip art collection in! Viola!
-
- "You know you SHOOK me baby! You shook me all night looooonnnngggg!"
-
- Contributions are still deserved for this work and welcome.........
- These ShareWare programs are placed on disk and/or uploaded on GEnie
- and BIX as a service to you. I have not yet received a single donation
- for either IMG INDEX or CD3 that were included on the release disk of
- IMAGE CAT and there have been over 1000 copies of IMAGE CAT sold! That
- does not speak well of ST ShareWare. I have, however, gotten a few (darn
- few) donations otherwise and I thank those who have taken the time to be
- kind and generous individuals. Thanks to those.
-
- Chet Walters
- POB 45
- Girard, OH 44420
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