Text file manager?

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I know that a CD cataloguer perhaps might work here, but I'm not sure
it would be appropriate enough for the job. A general cataloguer
would catalogue all files and they don't discriminate. I'm hoping
there's something out there that will catalogue all text files in a
drive or drives and then one could hopefully group the categories
together; also, it would ignore all other file types.

Is there such an animal, anyone know?
 
I know that a CD cataloguer perhaps might work here, but I'm not sure
it would be appropriate enough for the job. A general cataloguer
would catalogue all files and they don't discriminate. I'm hoping
there's something out there that will catalogue all text files in a
drive or drives and then one could hopefully group the categories
together; also, it would ignore all other file types.

Is there such an animal, anyone know?
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what about zip indexcator (i think thats right) ?
 
what about zip indexcator (i think thats right) ?
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Hmmm, doesn't seem to manage text files, though. It's a completely
different type of program.

From http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32_freeware.html:
" Extracts info from text files in all zip files (*.diz, readme,
readme.txt, etc) in any directory. Then it makes an attractive HTML
index of all information ordered and clickable by each filename."

I need a way to manage text files, not to extract text files from
zips. Thanks much for the info, though. This seems like a handy
program for what it seems to do.

Cheers. :oD
 
I know that a CD cataloguer perhaps might work here, but I'm not sure
it would be appropriate enough for the job. A general cataloguer
would catalogue all files and they don't discriminate. I'm hoping
there's something out there that will catalogue all text files in a
drive or drives and then one could hopefully group the categories
together; also, it would ignore all other file types.

Is there such an animal, anyone know?
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There's a old DOS string searcher that's often used in batch files
that does a decent job (as I recall) of distinguishing between
text and binary files so it can determine the best means of
presenting the Finds on screen. I don't recall the name of it, but
that's unimportant. Giving the problem a little thought, it seems to
me that it wouldn't be difficult to determine whether or not a file
is most likely a ASCII text file, and not a binary or a Word Doc, or
a PDF or RTF, etc. I have no idea what might be available, I'm
simply kinda interested in the problem from a programming POV.

Is that what you're looking for? A proggy that would list the paths
to all probable plain ASCII text files on a drive, and exclude the
files produced by various word processors, etc.?

Art

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Hey there,

I know that a CD cataloguer perhaps might work here, but I'm not sure
it would be appropriate enough for the job. A general cataloguer
would catalogue all files and they don't discriminate. I'm hoping
there's something out there that will catalogue all text files in a
drive or drives and then one could hopefully group the categories
together; also, it would ignore all other file types.

Is there such an animal, anyone know?
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Hey fitwell, long time no see! :)

How about Columbus?

http://www.oasys-software.com/

<quotes from the page>
Document Management - range of applications to aid the management of
electronic documents. This includes Columbus, one of the easiest
document management systems around to use. Columbus is now also
available as a free 'Personal Edition' and is the world's most popular
choice
<end quotes from the page>

I haven't tried it, but it sounds like its one drawback is that it
does a bit more than you want. :)
 
Hmmm, doesn't seem to manage text files, though. It's a completely
different type of program.
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From http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32_freeware.html:
" Extracts info from text files in all zip files (*.diz, readme,
readme.txt, etc) in any directory. Then it makes an attractive HTML
index of all information ordered and clickable by each filename."
Click to expand...
I need a way to manage text files, not to extract text files from
zips. Thanks much for the info, though. This seems like a handy
program for what it seems to do.
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It "could" work for you if you create a zip file that recurses
subdirectories and includes only text files. I know that this can be
done with PKzip commandline. I've never tried it with the freeware
archive programs though. Anyway, once you zip the .txt files then Zip
Indexator can create an attractive html that you can browse.

Just a thought in case the other program offered doesn't work out...
 
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