0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0¢¢ NEW UTILITY PROGRAMS FOR THE 8 BIT!¢¢ "DISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM"¢ FOR THE 8-BIT ATARI COMPUTER¢ by Ron Fetzer¢¢How many times have you looked for a ¢file that you know you have and could ¢not find it? How often have you gone ¢through piles of disks to find what ¢you are looking for or have looked at ¢a file name and have not the foggiest ¢notion what the file is about? Do you ¢have so many disks that you cannot ¢even remember what you have? Are your ¢disk piled in a box to be sorted some ¢day?¢¢Now you have a solution with the new ¢DISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM! The system ¢consists of two disks with 6 programs ¢to help deal with your disk library. ¢The programs are integrated. They work ¢together to identify your files, ¢alphabetize your files and name your ¢disks in an orderly fashion¢¢Disk #1 was written by Ron Fetzer(me) ¢and disk #2 was produced by Stan ¢Schenfeld. We are both members of the ¢0L' HACKERS ATARI USER GROUP, 3376 ¢Ocean Harbor Dr., Oceanside New York.¢¢On disk #1 you have the following 5 ¢programs. The STICKER program, the ¢CLEANUP program, the DISK LABEL ¢program, the DISK ENVELOPE LABEL ¢program and the QUICK CATALOGER. On ¢disk #2 you have the FULL FEATURE ¢CATALOGER. Both disk catalogers put a ¢disk name on the disks that is ¢recognized by each other and the label ¢programs.¢¢The CLEANUP program is used to cleanup ¢your disk before you catalog it. You ¢may want to remove unwanted or ¢duplicate files, change file names ¢etc. The program has all the major DOS ¢functions. It also has a Text Reader ¢section that reads any kind of text or ¢program from Wordprocessing files to ¢Assembly Language files. Most programs ¢are stored with the "SAVE" command. ¢This means that they are saved in ¢tokenized form - unreadable. Strings ¢are not tokenized so you will still be ¢able to identify the program in most ¢cases with the Text Reader. If you ¢still cannot identify the program then ¢break out of the CLEANUP program and ¢run the mystery program. To get back ¢to the CLEANUP program type RUN ¢"D8:CLEANUP" because the CLEANUP ¢program stores itself in the RAM DISK ¢D8. The reason you have to identify ¢the program is that the FULL FEATURE ¢CATALOGER asks you for a short ¢description of the file. When you ¢print the directory with the CLEANUP ¢program you will have a blank line ¢next to each file name to include the ¢description of the file. DOS.SYS, ¢DUP.SYS and RAMDISK.COM are ignored by ¢all the programs. If you want to erase ¢a disk you can use the Format option. ¢This will format the disk and at the ¢same time write DOS.SYS to the disk in ¢single or 1050 density.¢¢The STICKER program prepares 8 disk ¢name stickers on each 3.5 x 15/16 ¢pressure sensitive label. The disk ¢labels are glued on a 4 X 6 index card ¢that has 2 corners cut off. The index ¢card is put in the back of the disk in ¢the envelope and glued on with ¢Permanent Mending Tape. Do not use ¢Scotch Tape because it will dry out in ¢a few years and fall off. In this way ¢your disks are arranged in a similar ¢fashion to a library card catalog by ¢category and in numeric order.¢¢After this you would catalog your ¢disks. You could use either the QUICK ¢CATALOGER or the FULL FEATURE ¢CATALOGER or both. With the QUICK ¢CATALOGER you do not have do do ¢anything but insert one disk after the ¢other into disk drive #1 until you ¢reach a maximum of 810 files. The ¢files are stored in the RAM DISK D8. ¢You can sort them by file name or disk ¢name. Both catalog programs will write ¢the disk name to the disk. Once the ¢disk name is on the disk all the other ¢programs will recognize the disk name ¢and use it. There is a limit on the ¢number of files the QUICK CATALOGER ¢can process. If your library is very ¢large it is suggested you create ¢categories such as Public Domain, ¢Commercial etc. and catalog them ¢seperately. You can display the sort ¢on the screen or print it. All 810 ¢files will fit on 3 pages. You can ¢also include commercial disks that you ¢do not want to write a disk name to ¢the disk. You can include or exclude ¢individual files that have been ¢cataloged.¢¢The FULL FEATURE CATALOGER was ¢extensively re-worked by Stan ¢Schenfeld from a P.D. program. Stan ¢wrote a very detailed documentation ¢for the program. With this cataloger ¢you must do some more work. After the ¢disk is inserted the program asks for ¢a short description of the file, the ¢type of program it is, the source of ¢the program and whether it is BASIC or ¢Machine Language. The CLEANUP program ¢prints next to each file name a blank ¢line for you to record this ¢information first so you can use it ¢with this cataloger. If a disk has ¢been previously cataloged it will only ¢show the new files added to the disk. ¢It will also catalog commercial NON ¢DOS disks. All records can be updated. ¢The directory of the disk can be ¢displayed at any time. Inquiry into ¢the records can be made in 3 different ¢modes. The catalog may be sorted by ¢any of 7 different fields. You have a ¢choice of what disk drive you want to ¢use for the data disk. The sort is a ¢machine language sort and is much ¢faster then the Shell Sort. You can ¢re-name the disk and re-catalog it.¢¢The DISK LABEL PROGRAM prints a sorted ¢list of your disks on 3.5 X 15/16 ¢pressure sensitive labels. It can ¢print 27 files on one label. If there ¢are more files than 27 it will use a ¢second label. The program can handle a ¢total of 54 file names. On the first ¢line the label the program prints ¢automatically the disk name(from the ¢cataloger), the density and the amount ¢of free space in Kilo bytes. It prints ¢it in 3 columns.¢¢The DISK ENVELOPE PROGRAM does the ¢same thing as the other label program ¢except it prints it larger and in 4 ¢columns and it can handle 64 files.¢¢All the programs that create a label ¢have provisions to adjust the label in ¢the printer.¢¢All programs are written for EPSON or ¢COMPATIBLES and ATARI printers. If you ¢should have a printer that does not ¢fit this description, provisions have ¢been made in the programs and the ¢documentation on how to change them so ¢they will work with your printer.¢¢Now you can finally get a handle on ¢your disks. You will be able to ¢establish a professional disk library. ¢You now can find any file immediately. ¢You will be able to sort your files by ¢many different fields and the disk ¢name is recorded permanentely on the ¢disk.¢¢The DISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM costs ¢$6.00. Please make the check payable ¢to RON FETZER. Order your program from ¢THE OL' HACKERS ATARI USER GROUP C/O ¢HAROLD PEGLER, 129 KETCHAMS RD. ¢SYOSSET, N.Y. 11791, USA.¢¢SPECIAL--ATARI CLUBS can order 5 sets ¢at the same time and pay $5.00 for ¢each set instead of $6.00 each set!¢¢*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
