Re: Disk DB

[valthoff@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Victoria M Althoff)]

For the person looking for a way to create a database of disk directories...

There is a 6502 routine (MUCH too detailed to include here) in the August 1984 
issue of SOFTALK, Page 53ff, IInd Grade Chats column, "A Catalog of Values!" by
John A. Oakley.  This is a patch to DOS that causes the CATALOG command to load
a host of values directly into an Applesoft variable table--
VN (volume), FC% (number of files), LK$(1-FC%) (locked/unlocked), FT$(1-FC%) 
(DOS file type - B/A/R/S/B/A/I/T), SE(1-FC%) (sector count), and FI$(1-FC%) 
(truncated filename (no excess spaces at end)).

By the way:  the filename "STUFF ON MY DISKS 12/09" listed in the "keywords" 
line IS a legal DOS filename.  ProDOS, of course, will choke on the 16th 
character, the spaces, and the slash.  That's progress? 8-)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.