I've encountered users of various OS who implied somewhat different meanings for "list," hence I'd be uncertain whether ls or l would give just the filenames that I assume would be what is wanted; but I think the concept is right. If you can show the names of the files in a list, and then redirect that to a text file rather than to stdout (the monitor) you've got what what you need to make a file consisting of all the filenames on each CD.

The "ls" description says "information about files" which may be what you want, or may include more or less than what you want here. A quick trial should tell you if it's the applicable form. (And there may be additional "switches" you can use to get different forms of output to the text files.)

1. Display all the filenames, with or without other info like createdate, editdate, filesize, etc.

2. For each CD, redirect that display to a text file (using a different filename for each CD, of course).

3. For the file associated with each CD, add a "CD name" to each filename so that when you mix information for all the CDs into a single document you'll have that information on a file-by-file basis.

4. Combine files for any number of CDs into one Word document, so you can use Word's Edit|Find utility to look for the file(s) you want.

I believe the Edit|Replace utility in Word is virtually identical in Word versions for Mac and Windows, and it is very powerful once you get some of the basics, so even if the list of files that you get isn't exactly what you want, you can remove bits that aren't needed, as long as all the info you want is present in the first listing of the files.

John