>it should be _easy_ for any person to create a catalog.
but if it was _that_ easy, anybody could do it, and thus
the bureaucrats would lose their jobs and power, and
nobody would ooh-and-ahh about how smart they are.

It was that easy to create a “Magic Catalog” , and I have just passed along a “stone-aged” C/C++ program to Greg and Michael that does it.

Marcello I am sure can do a better  job of it, and is welcome to do so if he wants.