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- AmiGet - A simple search front end for the Aminet CD 2
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- Installation:
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- You need either AmigaGuide or MultiView in SYS:utilities
- OS 2.0 or above required
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- Workbench usage:
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- 1. Double click the AmiGet Icon
- 2. Enter the substring to look for in the Aminet CD index (case insensitive)
- 3. To see full Aminet index, press RETURN without entering a string
- 4. In the resulting doc, click the archive to unpack it to RAM
- or the description to view the .readme file
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- Shell usage:
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- 1. Enter 'AmiGet foobar' to look for foobar in the Aminet CD index
- 2. Enter 'AmiGet' to see a full index
- 3. In the resulting doc, click the archive to unpack it to RAM
- or the description to view the .readme file
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- Configuration
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- Modify the source. INDEXNAME is path to the INDEX file, INDEXLEN is the
- mem to alloc for it, AMINETFILES is the path to the aminet database
- (must end in : or /) and MORE is the text viewer to use.
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- Hint
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- While Amigaguide is running, you can snatch a copy of the doc you're
- looking at from t:NetGuide* (useful for the complete index). Also note
- that unpacker output goes to your original window so you might want to
- shrink the AmigaGuide window.
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- Status
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- Public domain. Quick hack. Source included. Feel free to improve.
- Urban Mueller, umueller@wuarchive.wustl.edu, umueller@amiga.icu.net.ch
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