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CatFish Version 1.5 December, 1996
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DESCRIPTION
CatFish is a disk catalog browser. It allows you to save snapshots of the
directory/file structure of your disks and to search through them at any
time. The catalog files maintained by CatFish are very compact and fast,
and can easily handle the huge directory trees often found on large disks,
removable disks, and CD-ROMs. CatFish will calculate total subdirectory
sizes, and lists the date of the newest file found inside each directory.
You can search all catalogs by file name (wildcards), size, and/or date.
When used in Windows 95, CatFish will recognize and store long file names.
Furthermore, CatFish can be used as an application or document launcher.
New in 1.5: Quick rescan (F5). Wildcard searches. Export to text file.
Accepts disks with > 10,000 files. Can stop a long search.
Command-line option added to start up with the Find dialog.
Best of all, CatFish is free.
For the latest news, check the home page - http://purl.net/meta4/catfish
Do you have a suggestion on how to further improve CatFish? Let me know!
GETTING STARTED
Using CatFish is easy, just start it up. There is no installation, there
are no DLLs, it runs on all Windows versions. Support for long filenames
is included for Windows 95, but catalogs themselves must have short names.
When you start CatFish for the first time, it will give you a few tips.
When you create catalog files, these will be placed in the same directory
as CatFish (with a ".CF4" suffix). If you move CatFish, you must move the
catalogs as well, otherwise these catalogs will no longer be accessible.
To have CatFish open with the "Find" dialog window, start it up using the
command line "catfish.exe /f" (Win 3.1: program item, Win 95: properties).
TIP: If you have a very large number of disks, just distribute all catalog
files over several directories and put a copy of CatFish in each of them.
FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS ONLY
CatFish is based on the MetaKit library, a shareware C++ class library for
persistent data structures. The sources of CatFish and many other small
sample programs are freely available as part of the MetaKit distribution.
The MetaKit library is a portable developer toolkit for data storage and
easy handling of structured objects and collections in C++. If you need
bulky/powerful database functions, look elsewhere, but if you need a small
and portable library to store structured data, please check it out:
http://purl.net/meta4/metakit
If you are a C++ programmer interested in persistent storage, Winsock, or
simple client/server applications for TCP/IP, you will probably find some
useful code / ideas in MetaKit. It even has a utility to create catalogs
of remote FTP servers (yes, these catalogs can be browsed with CatFish).
MetaKit registration is US$25, source code is $90 (multi-platform: $165).
DISTRIBUTION
The CatFish utility is copyright Meta Four Software, NL. You may use this
free software for any purpose, as long as you leave all copyright notices
in place and assume all risks for its use, regardless of the consequences.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Jean-Claude Wippler mailto:jcw@meta4.nl
Meta Four Software http://purl.net/meta4
Meekrap oord 6
3991 VE, Houten fax:+31 30 635 2337
The Netherlands