Re: file management with XyDos and DOS & UNIX

["Mimi Gauthier LeBien" iamiriam@xxxxxxxx]

Jordan - again, mahalo,

I would appreciate the link to the URL for the ZTree, if that's what you
were talking about. I'm not exactly a systems administrator - but have
stumbled upon some knowledge here and there -

Thanks again,
Mimi Gauthier LeBien


----- Original Message -----
From: "J. R. Fox" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: file management with XyDos and DOS & UNIX


> Mimi Gauthier LeBien wrote:
>
> > I'll look up information for ZTree. It sounds along the lines of QDos.
By
> > the
> > way, whatever happened to QDOS?
>
> Mimi,
>
> If memory serves, QDOS was from a company called Gazelle Systems, or
Gazelle
> Software. Most companies of that era are no more, along with their
products.
> ZTree
> is actually a continuation of the popular XTree file manager, with many
> structural
> limitations removed, and a great many new or improved features. It is,
however,
> a
> straight file manager, built on the old model of tree-structured
Directories and
> Files,
> rather than folders. I find it vastly preferable to Windows Explorer, for
> example . . .
> but then I came up in computing in the DOS era. There are versions for
OS/2 and
>
> for Win-32, though apparently not for Linux.
>
> > Basically - the company has ended up with a huge amount of mish-mash,
cut
> > and paste "styles" of file management and tracking. They receive
dictations
> > from 100s of doctors all over the country and then farm out the
dictations.
> > Every transcriptionist sends the reports in different ways - some
through
> > e-mail, some send floppies by mail and some send via PCAnywhere.  To
> > complicate matters, many of the doctors insist on working in MSWord so
that
> > they can correct their own documents
>
> I can see how that would make it especially difficult to pull this whole
> menagerie
> together. Maybe one of those emulation layers _would_ make sense in such
an
> environment. If the cost wasn't too great, and the tech manpower
resources are
> available at your company, perhaps it could be tried out first
experimentally on
>
> one test-bed system ? I'll be glad to pass along that URL I mentioned, if
you
> are
> interested.
>
> On the heavy-duty document management issue, the best I could do would be
to
> leaf through some old Comdex directories (I usually kept them going back 3
or 4
> years), and see if any leads jump out that might be worth pursuing.
>
>
> Jordan
>
>