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*** FLM-Cataloger 1.2 (c) 1996-97 Denis Unger ***
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For using the dictionaries in this archive you will
need Foreign Language Master - FLM (current version is 2.31).
FLM you can find in the aminet (misc/misc/flmXXX.lha) and on the
FLM-Homepage "http://www.fh-zwickau.de/~deu/".

Why you should use FLM as a file cataloger ?
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1. FLM is very fast for searching in files.
2. You have for one volume (or directory) one dictionary, so you can have any
   config files, e.g. aminet.config (with all aminet files), privat.config (with
   all privat files), ...
3. You will see similar files in the listbox.
4. You can see if you have files twice on your volumes.
5. You can also catalog the size of your files.
6. ...

At first I must say that FLM was not programmed for using as a cataloger. FLM
was programmed as a dictionary program but FLM works also very good as a
catalog program.

How you can use FLM as a cataloger ?
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At first you must generate a dictionary source file for FLM with all files
on your volume (e.g. CD0:).

make_sourcedic <volume> <file>

Example:
make_sourcedic CD0: cd0.asc

This little script does following:
- list over the volume
list <volume> lformat "%n:%f%s (%l)" all >tmp.txt
- converting the output file of list to the FLM dictionary source format
list2flm tmp.txt <file>
- now delete the temporary file
delete tmp.txt

The file cd0.asc you must now convert to a FLM "dictionary" with the help
of FLMconv (see documentation of FLM).
NOTE: You need only one dictionary for each volume, that means you must not create a
2. dictionary.
Please use as Language 1: "File" and as Language 2 "Dir" because I have used this
2 words and all dictionaries should have the same language (Dir<->File).

If you have the "dictionaries" created you can start FLM and add this dictionaries.
Now you can open the standard dictionary window and type in a filename. The founded
files (and directories) will now be showed in the left listbox. In the right
listbox you can see where this files are placed.
NOTE: From FLM 2.31 you can change the listbox size of Standard dictionary.

I have also put some dictionaries of Aminet-CD's... So you can see how FLM
does work as a cataloger. You find this dictionaries in the directory "wb/cat".
You must only copy the directory "wb" and the file "aminet_cat.config" to your
FLM directory and then you must load the config file "aminet_cat.config".

If you have more dictionaries with e.g. files from more Amiga-CD's please send
this files to me (denis.unger@fh-zwickau.de) and I can than put this files
to the FLM-Homepage and to this archive (flm_cat.lha).

If you have any questions etc. send an e-mail to "denis.unger@fh-zwickau.de".

Check out my homepage: http://www.fh-zwickau.de/~deu/

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* History *
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V1.0 (25.06.96): first release
V1.1 (27.12.96): more Aminet dictionaries (13,14,15)
                 dictionaries now compiled with FLMconv 2.0 (some bugs fixed)
V1.2 (15.01.97): new Aminet dictionary 16
                 script for generating the dictionary source file
