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- .name
- KingFisher
- .type
- Specialized Database
- .short
- Aminet/FishDisk/CD-ROM Catalog Tool,BETA
- .description
- A special purpose database system using a client-server architecture
- to provide one or more client applications with simultaneous access to
- one or more databases. The server can maintain disk catalog databases
- for Fred Fish's Fish Disk Library, the Fresh Fish CD-ROM library,
- Aminet, your User Group disk collection, etc.\n
- Creative use of this program does not limit it to cataloging software,
- however: you could store recipes or auto mechanical parts in the
- database, keep track of what books or tapes are in your library, store
- information on articles for your research project, etc.\n
- The client-server model allows access to the server by any client that
- knows the message port interface (available to programmers) wherefore
- client applications can offer any desired interface to the user: the
- standard GadTools, perhaps MUI, ARexx, a simple CLI, or whatever else
- may be available. Likewise, BBS software may choose to implement a
- direct link to the KingFisher Server.\n
- Functionality of the server provides for splitting databases over
- multiple (removable) volumes, allowing one client access to more than
- one database at the same time, evaluating complex search expressions,
- formatting a record for output based on specific criteria, parsing
- arbitrary input files for embedded records to be added to a database,
- maintain multiple special or general purpose flags for each record to
- mark for retrieval or removal, hide from searches, rebuilding a
- database index (if damaged) etc.\n
- Database handling has been optimized for simultaneous multi-user
- access, with access arbitration, locking, and file-sharing part of the
- design.\n
- Software included is the KingFisher 2.0 Database Server and client software
- using a fully resizable GadTools interface. Future releases will include
- clients with ARexx and MUI interfaces.\n
- Registered users will receive technical support, notification of new
- releases, a version without restriction on the number of simultaneous
- clients, and programming information and support to access KingFisher
- through its message port interface, and source code examples.
- .version
- 2.7
- .date
- 1994.12.18
- .author
- Udo Schuermann
- .email
- walrus@wam.umd.edu
- .address
- 6000 42nd Avenue, Apt. 405
- Hyattsville, MD 20781
- USA
- .restrictions
- The unregistered version of the database server is limited to 2
- simultaneous client connections. Gadgets and images are designed for a 1:1
- aspect ratio but will work on 1:1.6 non-interlaced. This is a BETA release
- and not a finished product.
- .requirements
- 68000+, 100K free RAM, 100K free diskspace (without databases), KS2.04+
- .reference
- GoldFish-Vol2-1/Tools/KingFisher/
- 2.3
- GoldFish-Vol2-2/Tools/KingFisher/
- 2.3
- FreshFish-Vol7/Tools/KingFisher/
- 2.3
- FreshFish-Vol6/Tools/KingFisher/
- 2.3
- FreshFish-Vol5:Tools/KingFisher/
- 2.0ß18
- GoldFish1-Apr94:KingFisher/
- 2.0ß16
- FreshFish-Vol4:Tools/KingFisher/
- 2.0ß9
- GoldFish2-Apr94:d8xx/d861/KingFisher/
- 1.30
- GoldFish1-Apr94:BBS/d8xx/d861/KingFisher.lha
- 1.30
- FrozenFish-Apr94:BBS/ALib/d8xx/d861/KingFisher.lha
- 1.30
- FreshFish-Vol2:Old/AmigaLibDisks/Disks860-879/Disk861/KingFisher/
- 1.30
- FreshFish-Vol1:Old/AmigaLibDisks/Disks860-879/Disk861/KingFisher/
- 1.30
- AmigaLibDisk861:KingFisher/
- 1.30
- GoldFish2-Apr94:d8xx/d808/KingFisher/
- 1.15
- GoldFish1-Apr94:BBS/d8xx/d808/KingFisher.lha
- 1.15
- FrozenFish-Apr94:BBS/ALib/d8xx/d808/KingFisher.lha
- 1.15
- FreshFish-Vol1:Old/AmigaLibDisks/Disks800-819/Disk808/KingFisher/
- 1.15
- FreshFish-Vol2:Old/AmigaLibDisks/Disks800-819/Disk808/KingFisher/
- 1.15
- AmigaLibDisk808:KingFisher/
- 1.15
- GoldFish2-Apr94:d7xx/d783/KingFisher/
- 1.11
- GoldFish1-Apr94:BBS/d7xx/d783/KingFisher.lha
- 1.11
- FrozenFish-Apr94:BBS/ALib/d7xx/d783/KingFisher.lha
- 1.11
- FreshFish-Vol1:Old/AmigaLibDisks/Disks780-799/Disk783/KingFisher/
- 1.11
- AmigaLibDisk783:KingFisher/
- 1.11
- AmigaLibDisk837:AquaPack/
- 1.01
- AmigaLibDisk705:FishCat/
- 1.2
- AmigaLibDisk607:FishCat/
- 1.1
- AmigaLibDisk559:Aquarium/
- 1.15
- AmigaLibDisk417:MostCurrent/
- 1.0
- AmigaLibDisk369:AQData/
- 1.12
- AmigaLibDisk301:Aquarium/
- 1.0
- .distribution
- Shareware, Freely distributable
- .price
- $15(US), DM25
- .exectype
- Compiled C
- .installsize
- 100K - 3M All database files can be kept on multiple removable volumes
- (such as floppy disks) and don't need to use up diskspace. The
- program(s) take up less than 100K; with documentation about 200K may
- be needed.
- .source
- 30K of source for some simple client software is included as SAS/C
- 6.51 code.
- .construction
- SAS/C 6.51
- .tested
- A2000 with 68030, 1M Chip 4M/8M Fast, Picasso II, 200MB HD, Bernoulli
- 150M Transportable, KS40, GigaMem, Enforcer.\n
- A500 with 68000, 512K Chip, 2M Fast, 150MB HD, KS38.
- .run
- KingFisher Server=WB,KFServer
- KingFisher=CLI,KingFisher
- .docs
- KingFisher.DOC
- README
- .described-by
- Udo Schuermann <walrus@wam.umd.edu>
- .submittal
- Udo Schuermann <walrus@wam.umd.edu>
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