Introduction to GTKtalog

GTKtalog User's Guide - Mon Sep 24 00:40:59 CEST 2001
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# Chapter 1. Introduction to GTKtalog

If you have many CDs and when you search for a song or a program, it can take an hour or more to find the CD with it on, then GTKtalog is for you.

Having used GTKtalog to scan all your CDs, a search of your entire collection of CDs will only take a few seconds.

Here are some of the exciting features of GTKtalog :

- categories to classify files and directories

- VFS (Virtual File System) plugins for zip files like (default support for .zip, .tar, .tgz, .rpm)

- information plugins for mp3, mpeg, avi ...

- powerfull searches on date, size, VFS, description, category using or not regexps

- reports, easy file manager like interface

Good reasons to use GTKtalog

- Search in a few seconds for a particular file in a zip file you backuped somewhere on one of your 20 CDs.

- Scan all your mp3s (stored locally or on CDs) in order to easily retrieve the music you want when you want.

- Avoid downloading big libraries or programs by searching for them through all the rpms of your numerous (linux) magazine CDs or ones you have downloaded and put on CD.

- Give your friends the GTKtalog reports of your (free) software CDs. They will enable them to ask you for a program, which you be able to find easily.

- Share your catalog file with friends so that anyone can search through anyone's collection of CDs.

- Time and frustration is saved

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