Appendix

Export Format (Comma- or Tab-delimited)

If you export the OffLine catalog in delimited format, then OffLine will produce a structured ﬁle suitable for use by most database and spreadsheet applications. To make it easier for you to import the resulting ﬁle to another application, the format of the exported ﬁle is presented here.

The exported ﬁle consists of one record for each ﬁle in the OffLine catalog. Each record consists of 9 ﬁelds. In a comma-delimited ﬁle, each ﬁeld is enclosed in double quotes, and ﬁelds are separated (delimited) with a comma. In a tab-delimited ﬁle, there are no quotes, and ﬁelds are separated by a tab character.

1.
Disk serial number, as assigned when the disk was catalogued.
Example: 226

2.
Full pathname, consisting of the disk name and any folder names, if the ﬁle is in a folder.
Example: My Program Disk:Letters:July

3.
File name
Example: Letter to Mom

4.
File description
Example: MacWrite document

5.
File creation date
Example: 7/12/90

6.
Last modiﬁcation date (or version number)

7.
File size, in bytes.
Example: 28603

8.
File creator
Example: MACA

9.
File type
Example: WORD