harrow@bagels.dec.com (Jeff Harrow, NCSE BXB1-2/E02 DTN=293-5128) (12/27/87)
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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In article <8712270234.AA21755@decwrl.dec.com> harrow@bagels.dec.com (Jeff Harrow, NCSE BXB1-2/E02 DTN=293-5128) writes: > >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? > I strongly recommend an Australian Shareware product by John Lim called d'Librarian. Our club uses it to catalog all our PD disks, generate text listings for monthly PD reports, and find that particular file that a member wants. The number of disks it handles in simply memory dependant. With a 2 meg Mac II, you should be able to catalog around 550 800K disks. The shareware fee is only A$30 (or around US$22). It's great! I will be posting a new version to the net in the next few days. Jason Haines, President Club Mac Macintosh Users Group, Sydney, Australia Phone Home: +61-2-73-4444 Snail: Box 213, Holme Building, Sydney University, NSW, 2006, Australia ACSnet: clubmac@runx.ips.oz ARPA: clubmac%runx.ips.oz@uunet.css.gov UUCP:{enea,hplabs,mcvax,prlb2,uunet,ubc-vision,ukc}!munnari!runx.ips.oz!clubmac