Descript and Fornt Software for Windows

FourTidy
$0 - Canadian Mind Products

To tidy and sort a JP Software 4NT/4DOS hidden descript.ion file.
These files are used by the 4NT DESCRIBE utility to track what
your various files or for. See
for more information on the 4NT command processor.

First make the directory containing the usually-hidden descript.ion file
current. e.g.

C:
cd env

Then invoke the java program with:

java.exe -jar C:commindprodfourtidyfourtidy.jar

If you have Excelsior Jet,
() you can compile the
jar and simplify that long-winded command to:

fourtidy.exe

To save typing, create a *.BAT file on the path containing the command.
You might also want to hide/reveal the descript.ion file with:
attrib +h descript.ion
attrib -h descript.ion

Fourtidy will sort, tidy, and prune duplicates in the
descript.ion file. It will also create a non-hidden file
called readme.txt with the information about all your files
in the directory in aligned human readable form.

Be careful, fourtidy will replace any existing readme.txt file you
may have in the directory!!

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WinCatalog Light
$0 - WinCatalog.com

WinCatalog Light is an easy to use yet powerful disk catalog software that can be used for cataloging disks and files. Using WinCatalog Light you can quickly find a needed file in your disk collection, even without inserting any removable disks into the drives. Our CD cataloger keeps the record of all files and folders stored on a disk and then uses this data to help find the needed files. WinCatalog Light supports various disk formats: CD, DVD, diskettes, hard drives, ZIP and jazz disks, removable and network drives, Memory Stick cards and any other storage devices, that can be accessed as drives in MS Windows environment. For better data representation WinCatalog Light scans Zip-archives contents and adds archives to the catalog, extracts mp3, html file descriptions when scanning a disk, and retrieves Audio CD track names from Internet. WinCatalog's main asset is the ability to access any disk's table of contents even if the disk is inaccessible at the moment. You can view the list of files and folders, examine their properties and descriptions, search files by various criteria. You can increase the search relevancy by associating with each file (folder, diska?¦) a set of keywords and a description that characterizes this item. WinCatalog features a built-in list of contacts. Use it to monitor whom of your friends or acquaintances you have given a certain disk. The lent disks are marked with a special icon.
Try WinCatalog Light - it is completely FREE!

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UserInfoTip
$7.4 - AksLab

If you want to know the contents or usefulness of a file, but you don't want to open it or create long file names, this program is what you need. UserInfoTip allows you to add your own files descriptions, as infotips, to any files you select in Windows Explorer. You will always know which files have descriptions by the highlight of the file icons.

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InfoLayout
$0 - TrieTech

How to deal with thousands of files on various media? How to quickly find a file or a disk? InfoLayout helps you create and maintain a catalog of your CD-ROMs, hard disks, removable and network drives. It is a comfortable software application that keeps a catalog of your files in one place. Add information about your files to the InfoLayout catalog and forget about the boring process flipping your CD-shelfs. Why search on a CD-shelf? Instead of looking through disk by disk, quickly find files in InfoLayout.

What's next? Adding disks to its catalog is not all that InfoLayout can do for you. To assist you in your search for files, InfoLayout keeps descriptions along with information about files in the catalog. Moreover, it maintains trees of categories no matter how complex they may be. Assign any item in the catalog to a certain category and you will never forget about important files. Furthermore, InfoLayout automatically imports description files such as descript.ion and files.bbs (it's possible to set custom description files). For music files (mp3, audio disks, etc.), InfoLayout stores such properties as artists, albums and titles in its catalog. InfoLayout can automatically import mp3 tags, read CDDB info and search by these properties.

What to do when your collection of files gets bigger and bigger? Don't worry about that: the catalog can be easily reorganized. Create virtual folders to give your catalog the structure you want. With InfoLayout, you can move items inside the catalog and change the tree of categories the way you like it.

InfoLayout not only creates and maintains a catalog of files. It goes several steps beyond. You can launch files, explore folders and copy files without using any other software. InfoLayout optimizes copying from multiple disks so that you won't have to insert the same disk in the drive twice.

And it's not only folders and files. InfoLayout can also store URLs along with files in its catalog.

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Frostbow Home Inventory
$19.95 - Frostbow Software

Frostbow Home Inventory 4 is a full featured database program for cataloging, organizing, and tracking your household possessions. Designed and built for Windows 9x/ME/NT4.x/2000/ME/XP. Easy to use graphical user interface with extensive on-line help.

Twenty-three separate fields for inputting descriptive data on each item in your home inventory, including: item name, manufacturer, model/style, serial number, engraved or not engraved, insured or not insured, category, location, status, condition, date acquired, purchased from, heir, warranty, cost each, quantity, total cost, current value, total value, two images, description, and comments.

All data fields are renameable and the user can specify default values for each field when new items are added.
Built-in image editor for importing, scanning, displaying, and printing images of your possessions. Images are stored in JPEG format which greatly diminishes the overall file size of the database. Password protection to safeguard your personal information. Description and comments fields for adding additional identifying or descriptive data. Easy to use search, sort, and filter tools.

Generates and prints eight pre-defined reports you can use to track your possessions and provide a listing of your household effects for your home insurance company. Advanced users can also use the built-in report designer for creating custom reports. Export reports as PDF files.

Generates and prints six different charts for viewing summary statistics about your home inventory. Choose from horizontal bar charts, vertical bar charts, or pie charts.

Ability to export and import home inventory data using a comma-delimited text file (CSV) and individual JPEG files. Supports using multiple inventory files and provides backup and restore functionality.

Suggested retail price - US$ 19.95. For more details visit our web site (www.frostbow.com).

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Extract URL
$49 - Spadix Software

A powerful URL extractor utility.

Extract URL with title, description, keywords meta data from entire websites, list of URLs or search engine results.

It presents results in url, base, domain, title, description, keyword, date modified, page size, etc. and user can save extracted data in text, excel, html file or CSV text format to import the output in any complex database tool as desire.

Program has numerous filters to restrict extraction like - URL filter, date modified, file size, etc. It allows user-selectable recursion levels, retrieval threads, timeout, proxy support and accesses password-protected sites.

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