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- Install Directions:
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- Copy the files to your hard drive in it's own directory.
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- You must have 4dos.com or NDOS.com loaded in place of
- command.com in config.sys for this program to work.
- You can't just run them.
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- Directions:
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- To catalogue drive A type: cat
- To catalogue drive B type: cat b
- To re-catalogue a disk type: cat r
- To delete a catalogued disk type: cat d
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- Thats it!
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- Notes:
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- You're database will be saved in a file called database.txt. You
- can alter the file any way you please with a text editor.
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- Deleting catalogued disk will not change the current disk number
- means if you catalogue disk 6 and then delete it, the next disk to
- be catalogued will be disk seven. You should just re-catalogue disk
- six. The delete option is just in case you rename a disk 77 instead
- of disk 7. Then you can delete disk 77 and catalogue disk 7.
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- The disk numbers are kept in the file disknumb.ers You can also
- manually change the numbers to start a new database or make your
- current database start counting from another point. The first number
- is the A disk and the second number is the B disk.
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- This is an easy to use catalogue program for 4dos and NDOS users.
- The reason for the very limited options is because it is the way I
- like it: fast and easy. The best feature of this program is that it
- automatically names your disks put into the catalogue 1A, 2A, 3A,
- 1B, 2B, 3B. This makes it so you can distinguish between disk sizes
- and not have any gaps between disks. This program will not rename
- the actual disks. This is because some disks need their correct
- disk name to install properly.
- The program is meant to catalogue file descriptions. These
- descriptions should be on the files first by using the 4dos describe
- command. If you are not using 4dos or NDOS then it would not make
- any sense to use this program and it will not work properly either.
- Because this program just appends the new data to a text file
- database.txt, you can use any previous ascii database that you
- already have. Just rename your old text file to database.txt and
- then edit the file disknumb.ers to start naming the next desired
- disk numbers. For example: if you want the next A disk to be 124
- and the next B disk to be 172, just put the numbers 123 and 171 in
- the file disknumb.ers.
- This also makes you the master of your database file. Therefore
- you can alter your database any way you please with a text editor.
- I did not check every fathomable situation in this program so back
- up your database for I will not be responsible for any unlikely
- problems that might occur. (It is a good idea anyway.)
- Another feature of this program is it keeps track of your file
- sizes and your free space left on each disk. This will enable you
- to search for free space on a disk, put a new file on it, and then
- re-catalogue the disk. The date is also included in the database.
- This program will not log the sub-directories of the disks. I
- do not want this feature so it will not be implemented. I prefer
- to just describe the sub-directories with the describe command.
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- The batch files included are just to take advandage of more 4dos
- commands. I did not implement these features for the simple reason
- that they already exist.
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- see_data.bat will show you your database file
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- findit.bat will search for a text string that you enter
- example: findit.bat picture
- this will search for every accurance of picture in
- the database file
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- frespace.bat will sort the free space information in a file called
- freespace.txt
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- see_free.bat will show you your frespace.txt file
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- sortem.bat will sort the files according to file name and put the
- sorted data in a file called sorted.txt
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- see_sort.bat will show you your sorted.txt file
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