The user will only see one of two messages on MenuCat's screen: either a message that MenuCat is processing or finished with a disk.
If the user runs MenuCat with output routed to the standard output channel, the
user will see a sequence of records printed on the CLI window from which
MenuCat was run. These records are of the following form:
filename white-space path
The user will see the one such record for each file on the disk. The white-space
will be sufficient to distinguish the filename from the path which follows. The
path will consist of the volume label of the diskette being cataloged followed
by a colon followed by enough subdirectory names (separated by slashes) to
specify the complete path to the file.
If the user ``pipes'' output to a file, the user will see no output except that presented on MenuCat's window. However, when MenuCat finishes the output will be in a file consisting of records as described above.
While MenuCat is processing a disk, the user should hear the same level of disk activity one would expect from a CLI command such as dir df1: opt a. Sounds of disk activity which deviate from this should lead you to suspect incorrect operation of MenuCat. One should cease the cataloging operation and validate correct operation of MenuCat at this point.