ugpete@sunybcs.UUCP (11/17/87)
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First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who answered my many questions.
Especially thanks Joe Piazza for sending me FixObj, and thanks Bill Thacker
for volunteering a slew of stuff.
Moving on: The author of Dirmaster (his name slips my mind right
now) has done a wonderfull job. Dirmaster does everything you might want
to do with your directories.... except the most important thing to me. You
can't print out your entire collection. You can print the names of all your
disks; You can print the entire contents of any single disk; But you can't
print the entire contents of ALL your disks. I want to have a paper master
catalog of my disks.
The Dirmaster database format is easy to understand if you look at
it, so it wouldn't be too hard to write a program that prints out the
database. (Not trivial though, because the file is unsorted. You would
have to write a multi-level sort) But I wish this capability was built
into the program.
I'd like the author to add that feature to Dirmaster. If there's
enough demand, I could be persuaded to write a MasterPrint program; but
the "right way" to do it is to have it included in Dirmaster.
-Pete
Peter Theobald
SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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