protcoop@leibniz.uucp (06/23/89)
Has anyone out there been using the shareware disk catalogue program called DirMaster? I used it for the first time last night and am having a bit of a problem with it. For the record, so far the program is just incredible! This is the way all PD/SW software should be. It is very professional looking and quite easy to use. I got all my disks catalogued with no problem at all. Then just for the sake of testing out the program I tried to search for a certain file in the database. I searched for 'README' which should be on a number of think the default was 'DISPLAY LIST'. Any help would be welcome. I am going by memory here so the names I give may not be correct. If you have any ideas please get in touch with me. Thanks. disks but the program told me it was not found. Is there something I should know that I may be overlooking? There is a gadget just below the string gadget to enter the name to look for. I think it was labeled 'SCOPE' or something to that effect. Judging by the interface of the rest of the program, it seemed as if I could click in this gadget and think the default was 'DISPLAY LIST' Alan W. McKay | My opinions are mine, yours are yours. | Eat Food | NEPEAN, Ont. | I in no way pretend to represent the | and | 613-763-8980 | the options of my employer. So there. | LIVE !! |
jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) (06/24/89)
In article <645@bnr-fos.UUCP> protcoop@leibniz.uucp () writes about
having problems with DirMaster.
I have been using DirMaster 1.1 and like it except for two annoyances:
It takes too much effort to search for another set of files and it does
not have a configuration option for databases on the hard disk.
To look for all files that have "brush" or "icon" in their names, I have
been doing th following:
1) Select Fields from the Display menu to include all records.
2) Select Custom from the Display menu, select submenu Names.
3) Enter "*brush*" in the first "include" string gadget and "*icon*"
in the second. Select the "OK" button.
Too look for another set of files, I have had to do all three steps
over again, which includes 90 seconds for resorting the records.
What I would really like is for Gregory Peters to supply a program that
can be run from the CLI to answer the simple question "what disk has
program such-and-such?". Using DirMaster to read its own database is
overkill.
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