Compact Dir 3 "CD3" (c) 1989,90 Chet Walters This is a quick and dirty way to get a nice compact printout of your hard drive directory. Good to use just before a back up or just to keep a record. It uses the smallest printing mode of both the HP Deskjet (and I assume the HP LaserJet) and also superscript mode of an Epson compat. This baby will fit a list of about 10 meg worth of files (8 meg with an Epson) onto ONE PAGE for easy cross referencing and quick referencing. Works VERY fast too. If you have an HP, you can save some ink by selecting DRAFT on the front panel switches. The program does not change that setting. Just choose your printer from the buttons and choose your drives. The rest is history. By the way, if you wish it to run with your printer pre-selected, just SHIFT-CLICK the printer button of your choice and it will give you the opportunity to save that configuration. This is not only for hard drives really. Just select the SUPRESS FORM FEED BUTTON and the buttons for both DRIVE A and DRIVE B then place a disk into each drive and smack the RETURN key. Once those drives have been dumped, slide in two more disks and smack the RETURN key again. Repeat the process until you have the compact catalog you need. Compact Dir does not print hidden files or empty directories..... *************** Update Info ********************** The current release of Compact Dir (version CD3) will print a verbose listing including bytes used and free for drives/partitions and also bytes used and number of items for subdirectories. Along with that, CD3 has the ability to sort on all of the standard fields (NONE NAME DATE SIZE TYPE). It will also mask out any files that do not match an optional extender list into which you can enter up to ten extenders. To assist you in locating the IMAGE files you would like to print with any of the CAT programs, just enter a list of extenders such as: PI? PC? TN? IMG MAC NEO and all your Degas, Tiny, IMG, MAC and NEO pics will be listed ONLY. To get a quick readout of your drives and their present USED/FREE space, enter an extender such as "3XY" or "SEX" or some such extender that you know no files on the drives will have. All the files will be skipped and only the drive info will get printed. For this release, CD3 has been fixed so that there will no longer be a need to set any DIP switches on the HP DeskJet. The earlier problem with this was due to differences in the ROMs of the early DJ's as compared to the later models. *********** UPDATE NOTICE 7/27/90 CDAR VERSION CD3 has been made compatible with the CDAR 504 and MetaDOS (though it will still only access drives A thorugh P). There is a slight drawback which may be considered a feature by many of you. CD's have an awsome amount of data on them and that taxed the original CD3.PRG's limits (especially for 1 meg machines). This one will read up to a maximum of 3000 items (that includes folders and files) at a time, then it MUST print them before it reads any more. However, you can make this a feature by changing that parameter if you like down to 1000 or less items per pass. You can use the pause for each pass to flop over the paper and print on the backside if you like (for those ecology minded individuals, this is a real selling point ). Just click continue. To set the pass limits and the pause, click on the very bottom box of the dialog then answer the questions truthfully. BTW - CD's are always full. NOTE: If you have drives for all formats available with MetaDOS then you MUST NOT (I repeat __ MUST NOT __) choose to print C THROUGH P. If MetaDOS attempts to read a drive (eg format) that does not match that of the disc in the drive then boom city (crash). No bones, that's the way it is. Use CHOOSE instead and just dump your current CD (drive). If you are unclear about this, then you must not have read the manual that came with the CDAR and MetaDOS. I know, I didn't get one or the other and found this out the hard way. Anyway, just make sure that you do CHOOSE a drive that is format compatible with the disc in the CDAR. If there's a High Sierra format disc in there and your drive J is set for ISO9660 and you try to print drive J instead of drive K which you have set for High Sierra, then reboot. Sometimes it will recover and if it does, then you must pop the CDAR door open then close it again to make MetaDOS recognize the disk. I have found that MS_DOS disks from the big blue world can be ISO or often High Sierra (but you gotta try them first to find out (the hard way). Ummmm, just a final note. The GEM (Meta) DOS functions fsfirst and fsnext work EXTREMELY slowly on a CD because of the immense data on these discs. You'll have to wait it out. Try this program on your harddrive if you think it's CD3_CDAR that's holding things up. It ain't. Tested and compatible with MetaDOS v1.7 released June 13, 1990 and copyright Atari Corp. 1990 by Mike Schmall. This program was developed in cooperation with: COMPUTER ROCK 3785 Balboa St. San Francisco, CA 94121 (415) 751-8573 At present, the guys (Carl Bacani especially) at COMPUTER ROCK seem to be the only ones really pushing development on the CDAR 504 right now. They deserve your support. They offer an incredible ST SoftWare PD and ShareWare library of 150 megs on one disc! They also have a CD full of excellent clip art with which is bundled a special version of IMAGE CAT designed just for the CDAR 504 (eg, IMAGE CAT is free with the disk!) Call them and ask about it. Then call or write Atari Corp and tell them to get this thing to market so we can all buy one. By the way, the Atari CDAR 504 plays Led Zeplin damned good too! In fact, I'm listening to it right now with the headphones as I type! And, if I want to access the clip art disc and whatnot, all I gotta do is pop ol' Jimmy Page out and pop the ST Clip art collection in! Viola! "You know you SHOOK me baby! You shook me all night looooonnnngggg!" Contributions are still deserved for this work and welcome......... These ShareWare programs are placed on disk and/or uploaded on GEnie and BIX as a service to you. I have not yet received a single donation for either IMG INDEX or CD3 that were included on the release disk of IMAGE CAT and there have been over 1000 copies of IMAGE CAT sold! That does not speak well of ST ShareWare. I have, however, gotten a few (darn few) donations otherwise and I thank those who have taken the time to be kind and generous individuals. Thanks to those. Chet Walters POB 45 Girard, OH 44420