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- DiskCat
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- Author: Craig Vaughan, Software Sorcery Inc.
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- DiskCat is a program that creates a formatted text file containing information
- about the files on the diskettes in your Macintosh library. The file is format-
- ted in such a way as to be used as input to a program such as Microsoft File or
- a program written in Microsoft BASIC.
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- The program either requires the use of two disk drives with either 128k or 512k
- of memory. If you have a one drive system, you can still run the program if you
- have 512k and a RAM disk program.
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- Place the program, with a set of system files (Finder, System, Clipboard, etc.)
- into your second drive (or load them into your RAM disk). Double click on the
- program's icon to start it up. You will be prompted for the name to call your
- output file (the default is Disk Library) with the standard save dialog. Next,
- you will be asked to specify a location field for the batch of diskettes you
- are processing. The location field is a tag to help you locate where the disk-
- ette containing a particular file is normally kept. I use the Micro 10 Flip &
- File boxes to store my diskettes and give each box a name such as utilities,
- communications, etc. I enter that name as I process each box. You can change
- the location field during the course of the program by selecting the Location
- menu or by pressing the command key and L at the same time.
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- After you have entered the location field, the program will eject any disk cur-
- rently in drive 1. At this point, you can simply insert the first diskette you
- want to process and the program will read the directory of that diskette and
- write the file information out to your output file and also display it on the
- screen. After it processes all the files on a given diskette, it will then
- eject it and wait for you to insert another one.
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- While the program is waiting for a diskette to be inserted, you can pull down
- any of the menus or enter a command key sequence. Desk accessories are support-
- ed by the program. To exit the program, simply pull down the File menu and se-
- lect Quit or press the command and Q keys together.
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- The information output by the program consists of 5 fields of information:
- 1) VolName - The name of the diskette.
- 2) FileName - The name of the file.
- 3) Type - The Finder file type.
- 4) Creator - The Finder Creator type.
- 5) Location - The user provided location field.
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- The fields are surrounded by quotes (") and are separated either by the tab
- character (ASCII 9) or by commas (,). The program defaults to delimiting by
- tabs which is what MS File expects fields in text files to be separated by. You
- can use the Delimiter menu to change to commas (or back to tabs) anytime the
- program is waiting for a disk to be inserted.
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- DiskCat was developed using the Apple MDS 68000 development system. The source
- code for the program is available on our ABBS at (703) 471-0610.