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- DISCLAIMER: This is a free program. You get what you pay for.
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- This was written in LightSpeed Pascal and portions are therefore certain
- portions are copyright Think Technologies, but who really cares?
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- What this thing does is take some of the guesswork out of making disks
- for other people. Take, for example, the case where you have a big mess of
- MacPaint files on your hard disk in a folder or two and you want to put
- them onto a couple of disks and send them to someone or just to archive
- them in case of hardware failure. You always seem to end up with 13K
- free and only 14K files left. This program should help in that situation. A
- warning, it expects to write to 800K disks, so if you only have 400K disks,
- you will have to mess with the source, which is included.
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- Simply make a text file of file names, followed by a tab, followed by the
- size of the file in bytes. I know this sounds tough, but I can recommend a
- very nice program named CatMaker that does this very thing. CatMaker is
- Shareware, so look for it wherever you got this thing. You can deal with
- folders as well as files if you make sure that only the folder is present
- and not all the files in it. CatMaker includes the folder and all it's files,
- so you may have to use a text editor (like the one you are using now) to
- edit out the files from inside the folder. What do you expect for free?
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- So, run the application provided and pick the file you prepared. It will read
- and sort the file and inform you if any files are too large to fit on a disk.
- Then it will allow you to name the output file and it will create it. The
- current limit is set to be 700 files. If you want more you can change the
- source or try to bribe me. There are some simple arrays in the code, but if
- you get fancy you can improve that.
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- It is up to you to do the actual copying, although I may be writing an MPW
- command procedure to do that and if I do I will probably turn this into an
- MPW tool. If you are interested in such a beast, call or write.
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- Jon Pugh
- PO Box 5509 L-561
- Livermore, CA 94550
- (415) 423-4239
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