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Article 379 of comp.sys.amiga.announce:
Path: fishpond!ennews!asuvax!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!wupost!csus.edu!ucdavis!toadflax.cs
From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce
Subject: NEW RELEASE: KingFisher v1.1
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Date: 13 Dec 92 12:15:33 GMT
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Available via anonymous ftp is version 1.1 of KingFisher, now offering:
1. the much-requested program name index (faster than Aquarium's.)
2. capability to adjust to overscan, PAL, and interlace resolutions.
General overview of KingFisher:
KingFisher is a freely distributable replacement for Aquarium, providing
a mechanism to search for software in Fred Fish's Library of Freely
Distributable Software. KingFisher has been designed for users of both
floppy-only and harddisks systems operating under either Kickstart 1.3
or Kickstart 2.0.
KingFisher v1.1 offers the following features:
- Maintains a split database across multiple disk volumes,
- Searches this database more than 3 times faster than Aquarium,
+ Provides a small and very fast program name search index,
- Adds new fish directly from Contents files or Usenet postings,
even from multiple concatenated postings or email contents files,
- Fish can be deleted from the end of the database to undo errors,
- Database is a line-oriented text file accessed through index
which can be modified by hand and then reindexed,
- Flexible print and export functions, including search-filtered
output,
- Select from multiple different search strings,
- Limit searches to a portion of the database,
- Follow version links to older or newer versions of software,
- Maintain multiple different "bookmarks" into the database and
switch between them with a single mouse click,
- Supports proportional and scalable fonts for description text,
+ Adjusts to overscan, PAL, and interlace displays,
- String gadgets are optionally kept active for keyboard comfort,
- Full configuration saved between executions,
- Iconifies to save Chip RAM (46K).
This update to the original version 1.0 does not include a database.
To obtain the database and complete program documentation, too, you
must obtain a file named KingFisher.lha which is 477691 bytes in size.
KingFisher11.lha is 66508 bytes in size.
KingFisher.lha and now KingFisher11.lha can be found at the following
ftp sites:
wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 /systems/amiga/incoming/fish
grind.isca.uiowa.edu 128.255.19.233 /amiga/Read.These (*)
ux1.cso.uiuc.edu 128.174.5.59 /pub/amiga/KingFisher (*)
(*) May take a little time for KingFisher11.lha to show up there.
._. Udo Schuermann "New way? What's this I hear about a new way?"
( ) walrus@wam.umd.edu -- Alex, "A Clockwork Orange"
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