[Coco] Reinventing the wheel: DSK images

[Allen Huffman]

Sometimes I write something because it doesn't exist. Sometimes I write something because I don't like what i found. Sometimes I write things just because it's fun. Keep that in mind...

Now that I have hundreds of RS-DOS .dsk images from my floppies, I want to organize the files they contain. I could do this natively on the CoCo, or on a Mac/PC/Linux, etc. My idea would be:

Scan through a folder and subfolders looking for .DSK. Create a list of all files found on RS-DOS disks with a path like this:

GAMES/COCO2/GAMES1.DSK/SPACE.BIN
GAMES/COCO2/GAMES1.DSK/LAND.BIN
...
GAMES/COCO2/GAMES1.DSK/EGGBEATR.BIN
GAMES/COCO2/GAMES1.DSK/YAWNMAN.BIN

I would use some tool to generate a CRC/checksum of each file so I could match duplicates later. Maybe generating it like a comma separated file like:

GAMES/COCO2/GAMES1.DSK/SPACE.BIN,3BF5
GAMES/COCO2/GAMES1.DSK/LAND.BIN,14FA

I would want to flag disk images that were special -- any disks with multiple files that had to be there, or any disk with embedded data (like Infocom games). Those would be left alone.

I then would want to present this to the user in a way that let the files be extracted or moved/organized, etc. Maybe as files on a PC in folders, so new disk images could be easily made.

Does any such massive .DSK management tool like this already exist? I may not want to reinvent this wheel.

		-- Allen