disc cataloging for XP

I have an old DOS program called Disc Catalog.

Is there anything similar I can use with XP?

tim sewell...

My son speaks highly of Broken-Cross. He has used it to catalogue ALL
of his CDs and DVDs (at a rough guess, about 300 of them!).

singhals...

Thanks, Tim, I'll have a look-see.

Dennis Lee Bieber...

Describe the functions it performed... (printed reports? live
search? label generation? how was input managed?)

singhals...

INPUT: I fired up the program (by typing catdisc), stuck a
floppy into A: and hit ENTER. The program read the
vol-label, and the file data (name, size, type, date) and
saved it internally on the HD. I provided the vol-num,
which was a simple sequential based on which disc I picked
up next; the same vol-num was hand-entered on a sticky dot
pasted to the disc.

SEARCHES: I could later SEARCH for a file name or type or
date or by vol-label. I never got around to printed reports
and don't actually know if it made any!

{Simple listings of the contents of floppies weren't difficult in
the old days, but who uses floppies regularly these days? CD-R is
getting too small for some data storage -- my /incremental/ /compressed/
backups require multiple DVD-R... And a catalog of 20GB of stuff might
not be all that useful as a single entity.}

singhals...

Yeah, but I've got 200 or 300 floppies in that catalog; Some
sort of [now, Dennis, don't go and faint!] *organization*
when I dump them onto DVD might be useful? (g)

I am also aware that many of those DOS programs won't run
under XP, which is fine; I just need to know which disc to
pull to use on the laptop that runs DOS.

john...

You could try Simple Disk Catalog v1.0c
Has some good use ratings.

Hugh Watkins...

get the web-search packages

freebies

desktop search
and
for images Picasa

see

enjoy

Hugh W