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- Short: Powerful Aminet index handler
- Author: Franck ANIERE (aniere@univ-mlv.fr)
- Uploader: Franck ANIERE (aniere@univ-mlv.fr)
- Version: 2.0
- Type: util/misc
-
- AmiSearch II is a powerful Aminet index handler. It can help
- you a lot with Internet files or Aminet CD ROM.
-
- AmiSearch II offers the following features :
-
- - Quite fast : I totally rewrote the search engine, based on optimsed search
- algorithms. On my Amiga 1200/030/50 an index with more than 60000 entries is
- searched in less than 10 seconds (20 seconds for AmiSearch).
-
- - Nice graphical interface using MUI, very easy to use
- (help bubbles).
-
- - Many configuration options.
-
- - Instead of having a single search pattern you have one for each Aminet index
- field : name, path, size, age, disk, description. This allows you to have
- more precise searchs (ex : name containing "web" and path containing "comm").
- Your last 10 patterns are saved to disk and are usable with a popup gadget.
-
- - The 'age' pattern can also use operators like <, >, <= or >= so you
- can easily know which files came to Aminet while you were sleeping
- on the beach...(ex : pattern '<=8' looks for files of max. age 8 weeks).
-
- - Indexes are no longer treated like text files : a special file format, named
- AS2DB, turns indexes into real databases. The conversion of indexes to this
- format is totally handled with the graphical interface and is very easy.
- Moreover converted indexes are smaller than the original ones.
-
- - You can update your databases very easily, and you can even update the Internet
- databases with a RECENT file. For Aminet CDs you can even use an automatic
- script which will do everything for you (except changing CDs...).
-
- - Many index formats are handled, including all Aminet CD formats.
-
- - Databases can be exported to other formats if needed (ex : Superbase).
-
- - Search result is shown in a special lister, allowing you to calculate the size
- of your selection (you can even know how many disks are needed to store this
- selection) or to apply a defined command to each entry : you can define 4 user
- commands (ex : extraction) and you have 6 internal ones, including HTML or
- Amiga Guide output.
-
- - The internal commands allow you to handle your files very easily : the Amiga Guide
- file can extract/view archives/pictures from your CDs and the AmFTP scripts allows
- you to download files from Internet automatically.
-
- - AmiSearch II is almost free, as it is mousepad-ware.
-