17 Nov
2007
17 Nov
'07
3:56 a.m.
On Friday 16 November 2007 15:55, John Foust wrote:
At 01:42 PM 11/16/2007, you wrote:
Darn right they aren't...
I've always had a weakness for some types of "file managers" -- started with
NSWEEP under CP/M, then went for a while with something calling itself QDOS
(only it wasn't) under DOS, but that had a weird problem if you had a lot of
files in a given directory -- beyond about 6-700 or so it just wouldn't show
them all. I finally ended up with InspectA, which allowed you to type in
a "description" for any file on the system. Finding a "files.bbs"
file in
there it'd use the contents of that, which was handy. Under linux I'm
currently using mc, which lacks this feature, though having long filenames
helps some. It's really not quite enough though.
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
So, now I'm looking for leads to individuals
or organisation who have
the capacity to scan this amount of material in and convert it into
PDF formatted documents.
This seems like a perennial topic, but the answers sometimes need
refreshing. I know I feel weighed down by the tremendous amounts
of paper around here. I saw a life-hacking article about a
sheet-fed duplex scanner that was promoted as being a quick and
easy way to scan both sides and convert to a PDF. I'm much more
curious about methods for adding and searching metadata.
Filenames aren't rich enough.