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From: jlh@loral.UUCP (A Casual Observer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: disk naming help wanted
Message-ID: <949@loral.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 14:52:43 EST
Article-I.D.: loral.949
Posted: Fri Oct 25 14:52:43 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 28-Oct-85 03:32:56 EST
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I have a couple of questions about MS-DOS 2.11.  First off, is there any
way to name a disk except when you format it?  I format boxes of disks
at a time and have no way of knowing what will later be on that disk.  It
seems silly to me that I can't re-name a disk when I put programs on it,
so I must be missing the MS DOS command to do it.

Second, does anyone know of a disk cataloging program?  This will preferably
read a directory, then save the name of the disk and it's contents.  Later
I want to be able to say "where is my frobnigozz.c program that I quit working
on 6 months ago?" and have it say "your program is on the disk labeled fred".
It would also be nice if it would say "the disk labeled fred is currently
under the couch", but I can live without this feature.  Another thing I would
like it to do is tell me all the programs I have, with several sorting options
like alphabetic order, sort by time, sort by post-fix (.c, .com, etc), sort
by catagory (editor, compiler, game, etc).

Thanks for reading this, and mucho gracias if you respond.


							Jim

Jim Harkins 
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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