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Article #23170My 'disk catalog' overfloweth! Help!
From: Jeff Harrow, NCSE BXB1-2/E02 DTN...
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1987 02:34
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1987 02:34
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Well, here it is a day after Christmas, and having eaten my fill
of turkey (too many times) and played with my new toys, I felt it
was finally time to get to that odious task I've been putting off
for so many months:
Cataloging that box of diskettes...
So, I faithfully cranked up Micro Disk Cataloger (MDC II, V2.1b).
All went well until I got JUST to the end of the box, at which
time the program indicated that 'it didn't have enough memory to
read that disk'.
Experimentation indicated that even running without Multifinder
on a 2 Meg. Mac II, it was apparently limited by something
internal to the program, not by the system memory (I think it was
written in Forth). WHAT A PAIN!
I checked my friendly MacUser to see if there might be a later
version of the program, but it didn't show MDC II in its "current
version" nor Quick Clicks sections.
So, my questions:
o Is it a current product? If so, what is its current version
and who can I contact (I can't find a number for New Cannon
Microcode)?
o Alternately, have any of you had good experience with a disk
cataloger? Which ones? Were they limited in the number of
diskettes they could keep track of?
o Does anyone have any 'heavy' experience with "Disk Rngr", which
came across the net recently? What are its limitations?
Thanks, and WATCH OUT!
Jeff Harrow
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!labrea!decwrl!bagels.dec.com!harrow From: harrow@bagels.dec.com (Jeff Harrow, NCSE BXB1-2/E02 DTN=293-5128) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: My 'disk catalog' overfloweth! Help! Message-ID: <8712270234.AA21755@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 27 Dec 87 02:34:47 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 48