Magellan
(ver 2.0)
Commercial made Abandoned Freeware


Lotus Magellan is a Textual User Interface File Search 
utility.  Originally realeased with much fanfare, it 
failed due to the small size of mass storage devices.  
People who were meticulous about organization didn't 
need it, and those who did, didn't have enough data 
to require it.  Today of course, with all the files 
people keep on their computers (music, photos, etc.), 
Magellan can be quite useful (in fact, the Windows XP 
"Search" feature is very similar to Magellan).  

This program has been updated to include all the extra 
viewers, samples (sample files were made by the program 
the viewer is emulating, and are intended to be tests 
for a viewer), and macro demos later offered by Lotus.  

You can now use a mouse if you start the program using 
"MGMOUSE.exe".  I have also updated the quick startup 
batch file "MGFAST.BAT" to call "MGMOUSE.exe".  

There is no manual, but the program is quite intuative.  
First, the program will make an index of your drives 
so that it can search for files faster.  It will also 
create a history file and an options file for internal 
use (these three files will be placed in the Magellan 
program directory).  If you want to skip the index 
creation the first time you start Magellan, start the 
program using "MGFAST.BAT" (and I would suggest that 
at this time you also configure your program options).  

Magellan can sort files by various methods (sorting by 
Name is a good way to locate duplicate files).  It can 
also use the index to try and intelligently sort files.  
Many file viewers are included so you can view the 
contents of your files (note that these are mostly for 
data files created by late 1980's programs).  You can 
display the file paths on your drives in a Tree format.  
Finally, Magellan can be automated with Macros (see 
the "MGDEMO" directory for some examples).