GB Engineering 93 Taggart Way Saddle Brook, NJ 07663-4435 CompuServe 72466,1210 TAPE_DB.EXE Tape_db.Exe is a Window 3.1 program to form a compact binary data base from ASCII dumps of your back-up QIC tapes. The program will import the output of "TAPE-DIR" a utility by Colorado, included, that was downloaded on IBMHW as TAPEDM.ZIP on 01/24/92. The program is able to combine all the back-up tape directories into a single file and searching by string and date references. Tapes listings can have notes added on, deleted and updated, and dumped back to an ASCII file. My 22 backup tapes were reduced to a single file under 800k listing over 49k dir's and file names, dates, sizes, etc., also the amount of free space and used space on each tape. Most helpful if you're like me, you have a backup of a program some were on tape but have know idea which tape it's on. The program is free for your use, if you would like the next version send me $ 3.00 and I'll send you a copy of the latest version. The complete source code is available for $ 15.00 in Borland C++, the program may be adapted to a different ASCII tape dump for a small fee of $ 75.00. If you find any errors please drop me a message. Note : The TAPE-DIR utility by Colorado, was down loaded from IBMHW as TAPEDM dated 01/24/92. To obtain an ASCII tape dump from this program requires a redirectable command as "TAPE-DIR > FileName.Txt". This ASCII file can be now down loaded into TAPE_DB