Re: IIGS Program Inventory

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Rich wrote:
> I would like to go through the volumes on my IIGS hard drive(s), 
> including some archives on Zip disks and take inventory of the many 
> utilities, programs and games I've collected over the years.  (I might 
> later want to make notes to help remember what many of them do, and such).
>
> My first thought was to use a catalog function (as in C2+) or a utility 
> like Volumesnake to do it, but when I try that, I get huge listings 
> including data files and finder.data etc.
>
> Anybody have a utility they could recommend, or a system they use to 
> keep track of stuff?

CiderPress' MDC would be a good start, but the interpretation of the
"meaning" of the files is always going to be a manual process.

I think I'd try to get the MDC output into a database, then massage it.

-michael

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