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Subject: Re: Getting AmiGuide to work.
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:50:04 GMT

In reply to your problem with AmiGuide (sorry it took me a while to reply),
it should be creating a temporary file in RAM called Index1, and not
"Index 1".  I'm not real sure what could be causeing this.  I do know the
reason for the all too many disk swaps, which could only be corrected if
you put AmiGuide on a stripped down workbench disk..

Actually, I have done some more work on it, and plan to release a new
version pretty soon.  (2.0)  AmiGuide (as criticized) is currently very
slow.  The next version (AFTER 2.0) will almost definately be written in
C.  I have looked into using the AmigaGuide standard for storing the files,
(3.0) but I was not certain as to what and how the AmigaGuide standard
handled such big databases.  It would defeat the point of using the Amiga
Guide standard if it couldn't properly X-reference articles.  And I know
Hyper takes up a lot of memory (I assume because of the size of the file)
but I'll look into it.  If any Amiga programmers are out there, and think
they can beat me to a C version of an Amiga Guide reader - go for it.  I
have no idea when it will be complete (I am also co-writing a BBS, so a
lot of my time is being eaten up.)

Good luck, (expect a new version of AmiGuide up within 7 days or so,)
James Palmer