Simple Disk Catalogizer

About Dic

Dic is a simple, console-based disk catalogizer. It can easily add disks to the catalog, search in the catalog, list the files on a disk, search for files, automatically retrieve found files without requiring you to manually navigate through the source media, and more. It has an extfs plugin for Midnight Commander to easily browse the catalog.

News

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:09:26 -0500 : Version 0.7 is available.
- Applied several years worth of patches ;)
- Uses native python for copying files instead of shell commands.
Tue Sep 18 00:53:32 CEST 2001 : Version 0.6 is available.
- *much* faster search if using substring mode.
- storing the device which was used by creating the disk-file - this device will be automatically used when getting files from the disk.
- the configuration files are moved from /etc to /etc/dic (!)
- storing extra informations from files with the new user-defined filtering system.
Wed Aug 29 19:11:58 CEST 2001 : Version 0.5 is available.
- added manual pages for dic and dic.conf
- reorganized directory structure
- extfs plugin for midnight commander. Simply type 'cd #dic' in mc, and enjoy :)
- bugfix: disk was not added, if diskname was specified from the commandline
Known issues and bugs :
- The mc vfs doesn't work perfectly with catalog created with dic 0.4 : all directories will be shown as normal files. Send me a mail, if you wish a converter.
- The mc vfs has some problems, mainly because the vfs caching of mc.
Tue Aug 28 04:08:38 CEST 2001 : Version 0.4 is available.
First public release, with patches and bugfixes from Antoine Gémis

Documentation

The up-to-date documentation (installation instructions, usage, examples, manual pages) can be found in the tarballs, or in the CVS repository.

Download

You can download the latest version from the download page at Sourceforge.

CVS access

The latest development version of Dic can be exported from CVS following these instructions.

Reporting bugs

You can report bugs, add feature requests, etc. at the project homepage at Sourceforge.

Examples

Here are some basic examples, to show how easy it is to use Dic:

First, add a new disk to the catalog:

~$ dic add
mounting cdrom to /cdrom
Reading disk...
Done.
Please enter a name for this disk: []
potato extension 1
Please enter the category of this disk: [none]
linux
umounting cdrom
~$

Let's see, if it is really added:

~$ dic list
Name                 Category     Status
====================-============-============
potato extension 1   linux
~$

Now search for filenames containing the string 'apt':

 ~$ dic search apt
Name
==============================================
potato extension 1/debian/debian-kde/contrib/binary-i386/utils/kcmlaptop_0.82-4.0_i386.deb
potato extension 1/debian/debian-updates/binary-i386/console-apt_0.7.7.2potato2_i386.deb
potato extension 1/debian.apt.list
~$

Get some files

~$ dic get 'potato extension 1/debian.apt.list'
Please insert the disk labeled 'potato extension 1' into the device 'cdrom' and press Enter.

copying /cdrom/debian.apt.list to current directory.
~$

Of course, these are only a few, very basic examples. Dic can do much more (for example search and get in one step). For the complete set of commands and more examples,see the documentation.

Authors

Ákos Putz Email: Putz_Akos at yahoo dot com
Antoine Gémis Email: agemis@nettup.com
Seth Remington Email: sremington at saberlogic dot com

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