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- Short: Provides access to all your AmigaGuides and Readme files easily
- Author: Steve@hargreavess.freeserve.co.uk (Steve Hargreaves)
- Uploader: Steve@hargreavess.freeserve.co.uk (Steve Hargreaves)
- Version: 3.1
- Type: util/wb
- Requires: AmigaDOS sort and list commands, MUI, SearchGuide (Optional)
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- Features:-
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- New in V3.1
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- - Slightly changed the GUI - GHelpGen is now a separate page of the same window.
- - Added tooltype "SHOWSFX". You can now decide whether or not the list will show the
- .guide/.doc/.readme suffixes or not.
- - Fixed a bug in the AND operator. If the keyword wasn't on the first line of the guide, it was
- treated as not found - Oops.
- - Problems occured on some systems which I've narrowed down to an insufficient stack size. GHelp
- now sets its' own stack internally.
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- New in V3.0
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- - GHelpGUI and GHelpGEN are now in a single executable, resulting in a smaller size, faster
- operation, and less duplication
- - Cleaned the GUI up. Now more intuitive to use, and added additional GUI features (progress bars,
- proper Busy windows etc.)
- - Indices no longer have to be rebuilt from scratch. You can now add a single guide, or all guides
- in specified paths as well as re-generating.
- - After generating/updating the index, a check is made for duplicate entries, and options to
- selectively include duplicates in the final index introduced.
- - I'm sure there's more, but details escape me for now. :o)
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- New in V2.6
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- - GHelpGen re-written to be completely self contained. AmigaDOS List and Sort commands no longer used.
- The re-write has also resulted in an increase in speed of 15 - 20% when generating indices.
- - GHelpGen can now be aborted if you wish.
- - Introduced multiple keyword and boolean searching
- - Fixed a few more bugs in the GUI. Now fully MUI compliant operation, including full keyboard
- control, shortcuts, and bubble help.
- - Fixed a few bugs in the internals. It should be pretty much bug free now.
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- New since V2.0
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- - Completely re-written from scratch
- - GUI instead of an AmigaGuide index - in V2.4 rewritten again for MUI
- - Search guides facility added
- - Dispensed with the ARexx requirement
- - The whole package is integrated to work together
- - Much more modular
- - Simple to use
- - Now uses SearchGuide if it's found in your C: directory to allow searching within AmigaGuide
- files.
- - Multiple indexes, allowing GHelp to be used as a Global file viewer (when used with a utility
- such as IDer as the default viewer)
- - Easy access to all your Amigaguide documents
- - Progressive Keyword searching of all documents
- - Support for SearchGuide, so search in specific documents
- - MUI Interface
- - Commodity
- - Hotkey function
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- Try it, you'll wonder what you did without it.
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- When you've had an Amiga for a while, and you've installed software all over the place, despite your
- best efforts, you finish up with AmigaGuide documents and ReadMe files scattered across your hard
- drive(s). Now this is fine, until you come to want a specific guide, or aren't sure exactly which
- guide you are looking for. Wouldn't it be nice to have all your AmigaGuides and ReadMe's available
- from a single hotkey. That's where GHelp comes in.
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- Quite simply, GHelp consists of two programs that work together as a package.
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- GHelpGen searches your hard drives (the exact search paths are configurable) and creates an index of
- AmigaGuide docs.
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- GHelp is a small commodity that sits in the background waiting for you to press your (user definable)
- hotkey combination, and then launches GHelpGUI where you can open, delete and search Amigaguides.
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- GHelpGUI provides the functionality that Amiga should have been born with.
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- This is version 2.6. Includes a number of bug fixes and enhancements. See the guide for details.
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 1279 1044 18.3% 10-Aug-01 16:05:46 Def_GHelp.info
- 37624 20470 45.5% 22-Aug-01 22:49:20 GHelp
- 15298 6240 59.2% 24-Aug-01 17:50:34 GHelp.guide
- 1293 1061 17.9% 22-Aug-01 12:42:02 GHelp.info
- 27048 15583 42.3% 28-Jun-01 01:04:14 GHelpConvert
- 117088 44891 61.6% 24-Aug-01 16:56:02 GHelpGui
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- 199630 89289 55.2% 25-Aug-101 06:37:22 6 files
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