Category : Utilities for DOS and Windows Machines
Archive   : IDCCAT.ZIP
Filename : CAT2DBF.PRG
* Author : Gary Conway
* Created : 4/6/87
* Updated :
* This file will move the MAST.CAT and VOLLBL.NDX files into
* dBASE files.
SET ECHO OFF
SET TALK OFF
SET COLON OFF
ERASE
IF .NOT. FILE('IDCCAT.DBF')
TEXT
You must have the file IDCCAT.DBF in this directory or you may
create it now with the following fields.
Filename C 12
Volume C 12
Date C 8
Time C 5
Size C 7
Arcfile C 12
ENDTEXT
CREATE IDCCAT.DBF
ENDIF
IF .NOT. FILE('VOLLBL.DBF')
TEXT
You must have the file VOLLBL.DBF in this directory or you may
create it now with the following fields.
Volume C 12
Freespace C 9
Date C 8
Time C 5
ENDTEXT
CREATE VOLLBL.DBF
ENDIF
ERASE
SET TALK ON
? "Appending records to IDCCAT.DBF"
USE IDCCAT
APPEND FROM MAST.CAT SDF
USE VOLLBL
? "Appending records from VOLLBL.NDX"
APPEND FROM VOLLBL.NDX SDF
USE
RETURN
* EOF:CAT2DBF.PRG
CAT.DBF in this directory or you may
create it now with the following fields.
Filename C 12
Volume C 12
Date C 8
Time C 5
Size C 7
Arcfile C 12
ENDTEXT
CREATE IDCCAT.DBF
ENDIF
IF .NOT. FILE('VOLLBL.DBF')
TEXT
You must have the file VOLLBL.DBF in this directory or you may
create it now with the following fields.
Volume C 12
Freespace C 9
Date C
Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/