Install Directions: Copy the files to your hard drive in it's own directory. You must have 4dos.com or NDOS.com loaded in place of command.com in config.sys for this program to work. You can't just run them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Directions: To catalogue drive A type: cat To catalogue drive B type: cat b To re-catalogue a disk type: cat r To delete a catalogued disk type: cat d Thats it! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes: You're database will be saved in a file called database.txt. You can alter the file any way you please with a text editor. Deleting catalogued disk will not change the current disk number means if you catalogue disk 6 and then delete it, the next disk to be catalogued will be disk seven. You should just re-catalogue disk six. The delete option is just in case you rename a disk 77 instead of disk 7. Then you can delete disk 77 and catalogue disk 7. The disk numbers are kept in the file disknumb.ers You can also manually change the numbers to start a new database or make your current database start counting from another point. The first number is the A disk and the second number is the B disk. This is an easy to use catalogue program for 4dos and NDOS users. The reason for the very limited options is because it is the way I like it: fast and easy. The best feature of this program is that it automatically names your disks put into the catalogue 1A, 2A, 3A, 1B, 2B, 3B. This makes it so you can distinguish between disk sizes and not have any gaps between disks. This program will not rename the actual disks. This is because some disks need their correct disk name to install properly. The program is meant to catalogue file descriptions. These descriptions should be on the files first by using the 4dos describe command. If you are not using 4dos or NDOS then it would not make any sense to use this program and it will not work properly either. Because this program just appends the new data to a text file database.txt, you can use any previous ascii database that you already have. Just rename your old text file to database.txt and then edit the file disknumb.ers to start naming the next desired disk numbers. For example: if you want the next A disk to be 124 and the next B disk to be 172, just put the numbers 123 and 171 in the file disknumb.ers. This also makes you the master of your database file. Therefore you can alter your database any way you please with a text editor. I did not check every fathomable situation in this program so back up your database for I will not be responsible for any unlikely problems that might occur. (It is a good idea anyway.) Another feature of this program is it keeps track of your file sizes and your free space left on each disk. This will enable you to search for free space on a disk, put a new file on it, and then re-catalogue the disk. The date is also included in the database. This program will not log the sub-directories of the disks. I do not want this feature so it will not be implemented. I prefer to just describe the sub-directories with the describe command. The batch files included are just to take advandage of more 4dos commands. I did not implement these features for the simple reason that they already exist. see_data.bat will show you your database file findit.bat will search for a text string that you enter example: findit.bat picture this will search for every accurance of picture in the database file frespace.bat will sort the free space information in a file called freespace.txt see_free.bat will show you your frespace.txt file sortem.bat will sort the files according to file name and put the sorted data in a file called sorted.txt see_sort.bat will show you your sorted.txt file