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- From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
- Subject: NEW RELEASE: KingFisher v1.15
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.225659.23877@wam.umd.edu>
- Summary: All bugs fixed, several new features
- Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET News system)
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- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:56:59 GMT
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- Available via anonymous ftp is version 1.15 of KingFisher, fixing all
- bugs (including a problem with national characters the presence of which
- could lockup the program.) Version 1.15 also adds a number of features,
- such as FirstFish/LastFish gadgets.
-
- General overview of KingFisher:
-
- KingFisher is a freely distributable replacement for Aquarium, providing
- a mechanism to search for software in Fred Fish's Library of Freely
- Distributable Software. KingFisher has been designed for users of both
- floppy-only and harddisks systems operating under either Kickstart 1.3
- or Kickstart 2.0. Some features are available only under Kickstart 2.0.
-
- KingFisher v1.15 offers the following features:
-
- - Maintains a split database across multiple disk volumes,
- - Searches this database more than 3 times faster than Aquarium,
- - Provides a small and very fast program name search index,
- - Adds new fish directly from Contents files or Usenet postings,
- even from multiple concatenated postings or email contents files,
- - Fish can be deleted from the end of the database to undo errors,
- - Database is a line-oriented text file accessed through index
- which can be modified by hand and then reindexed,
- - Flexible print and export functions, including search-filtered
- output,
- - Select from multiple different search strings,
- - Limit searches to a portion of the database,
- - Follow version links to older or newer versions of software,
- - Maintain multiple different "bookmarks" into the database and
- switch between them with a single mouse click,
- - Supports proportional and scalable fonts for description text,
- - Now supports the 2.0 display database including Text Overscan.
- Limited support for overscan, PAL, and interlace displays is
- available under 1.3.
- - String gadgets are optionally kept active for keyboard comfort,
- - Full configuration saved between executions,
- - Iconifies to save Chip RAM (46K).
-
- This update does not include a database. To obtain the database you must
- obtain a file named KingFisher.lha which is 477691 bytes in size, or obtain
- version 1.11 from the Fish Disks. KingFisher115.lha is 75809 bytes in
- size.
-
- KingFisher115.lha can be found at the following ftp sites:
-
- wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 /systems/amiga/incoming/fish
- grind.isca.uiowa.edu 128.255.19.233 /amiga/Read.These (*)
- ux1.cso.uiuc.edu 128.174.5.59 /pub/amiga/KingFisher (*)
-
- (*) May take a little time for KingFisher115.lha to show up there.
-
-
- ._. Udo Schuermann "New way? What's this I hear about a new way?"
- ( ) walrus@wam.umd.edu -- Alex, "A Clockwork Orange"
-