[comp.sys.apple] Why all the Catalog-ing?

trd10523@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (01/31/89)

Hello folks! I might have missed the initial conversation, but I am
quite confused by all of these attempts to put the disk catalog in a
text file. In ProDOS this is **NO** challenge whatsoever, since it
allows you to read a directory (even the root) just like a text file. In fact,
the file follows the exact format of the catalog, including all blank lines
and the "Blocks Free:" final line. Just use normal text-file-handling
commands.
If you still are using DOS 3.3 (which is no sin - many great people
still do), then you'll need something more elaborate. I don't remember how
to do it, but other people have posted things to that effect.

Todd Davis
U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
trd10523@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu