Searching inside an ATR with Windows?

[+Larry]

There are several ways to look at the contents of an individual ATR, but is there a tool that will let you search inside an ATR for a specific Atari program/data file? For instance, let's say that I have a CD of Atari PD ATR's. Is there a Windows tool that would allow you to search for part of a filename *within* the directory of those ATR's?

 

I've tried Windows GREP, but it always comes up with "0 matches" so it must not be searching as I think it would (or I've done something wrong in setting up the search).

 

-Larry

[Rybags]

WIndows Search is pretty useless for looking through files for strings. Actually, it's pretty useless for most things.

 

Agent Ransack is what I use - it's much faster than Windoze Search and it doesn't have that annoying "monitoring for changes" attribute that the Windows one has.

 

If you're looking for filename, you need to pad out with spaces so the primary part is 8 characters, so e.g. DOS.SYS would be DOS <5 spaces> SYS

Edited March 16, 2012 by Rybags

[+bob1200xl]

No wildcards?

 

Bob

[+Stephen]

WIndows Search is pretty useless for looking through files for strings. Actually, it's pretty useless for most things.

 

Agent Ransack is what I use - it's much faster than Windoze Search and it doesn't have that annoying "monitoring for changes" attribute that the Windows one has.

 

If you're looking for filename, you need to pad out with spaces so the primary part is 8 characters, so e.g. DOS.SYS would be DOS <5 spaces> SYS

I have also been using Agent Ransack for about a decade now. It supports regular expression searches for filenames as well as text within files. I use it for doing exactly this (searching for filenames within my ATR collection).

[+bob1200xl]

Would you get any instance of *.txt rather than just the directory entry in an .ATR? For example, if you had a text file with a directory listing in it, how would you know if that was a directory entry or not? Assume that we want to run/copy a file from our PD collections on CD - how do you find a specific file with wildcards? (not just a text string)

 

What has your experience been? How many .ATRs are we talking about? A CD of .ATRs could be pretty busy...

 

Bob

[+Larry]

Thanks, Guys.

 

Agent Ransack delivered 57 matches. Searched about 2 GB in a little over 2 minutes. Awesome! Could not get GREP to find any, so I was probably doing something wrong. (?) But Agent Ransack had no issues and the search setup was easy. All my Atari CD's (minus as many duplicates as could be located) have been copied to a USB drive. How many images? Well, if the a typical image is 100,000 bytes (rounding) and it searched about 2 GB, that should be about 20,000 images in a bit over 2 minutes (give or take a bit). At any rate, Fast with a capital "F" and that's on a USB 2.0 drive.

 

-Larry

[Fox-1 / mnx]

I used this one on the past: ftp://ftp.pigwa.net/stuff/collections/holmes%20cd/Holmes%202/PC%20Atari%20Utils/Xdir%20List/

 

It creates a text file with the contents from ATR and XFD images but it's an MS-Dos util so chances are it won't do for recent windows systems.

[AHA]

total commander with the atr plugin installed