science@nems.ARPA (Mark Zimmermann) (03/08/88)
I'm looking for a way to automagically catalog the directories (files and
folders) on a bunch (100 or so) floppies ... is there already a stack to
do this? I envision something (probably XFCN-driven) which would prompt
the user to insert a disk, would read the files/folders off that disk, and
then put the data into fields on a more-or-less standard stack like Disk
Librarian ... user could later go back and annotate, etc.
I have a kludgey, partially-implemented solution which isn't entirely
satisfactory:
- use HFS Backup (PCPC prog) to produce a text file of each disk's
directory info
- write a script to import the directory text info into one card each
But as mentioned earlier, it's slow and ugly. Nice to have would
be info on each file's size, creation/modification date, etc. (as HFS
Backup provides, tab-delimited, in its listings).
Any advice? Many tnx ... ^z