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- CatFish Version 1.5 December, 1996
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- DESCRIPTION
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- CatFish is a disk catalog browser. It allows you to save snapshots of the
- directory/file structure of your disks and to search through them at any
- time. The catalog files maintained by CatFish are very compact and fast,
- and can easily handle the huge directory trees often found on large disks,
- removable disks, and CD-ROMs. CatFish will calculate total subdirectory
- sizes, and lists the date of the newest file found inside each directory.
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- You can search all catalogs by file name (wildcards), size, and/or date.
- When used in Windows 95, CatFish will recognize and store long file names.
- Furthermore, CatFish can be used as an application or document launcher.
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- New in 1.5: Quick rescan (F5). Wildcard searches. Export to text file.
- Accepts disks with > 10,000 files. Can stop a long search.
- Command-line option added to start up with the Find dialog.
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- Best of all, CatFish is free.
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- For the latest news, check the home page - http://purl.net/meta4/catfish
- Do you have a suggestion on how to further improve CatFish? Let me know!
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- GETTING STARTED
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- Using CatFish is easy, just start it up. There is no installation, there
- are no DLLs, it runs on all Windows versions. Support for long filenames
- is included for Windows 95, but catalogs themselves must have short names.
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- When you start CatFish for the first time, it will give you a few tips.
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- When you create catalog files, these will be placed in the same directory
- as CatFish (with a ".CF4" suffix). If you move CatFish, you must move the
- catalogs as well, otherwise these catalogs will no longer be accessible.
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- To have CatFish open with the "Find" dialog window, start it up using the
- command line "catfish.exe /f" (Win 3.1: program item, Win 95: properties).
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- TIP: If you have a very large number of disks, just distribute all catalog
- files over several directories and put a copy of CatFish in each of them.
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- FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS ONLY
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- CatFish is based on the MetaKit library, a shareware C++ class library for
- persistent data structures. The sources of CatFish and many other small
- sample programs are freely available as part of the MetaKit distribution.
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- The MetaKit library is a portable developer toolkit for data storage and
- easy handling of structured objects and collections in C++. If you need
- bulky/powerful database functions, look elsewhere, but if you need a small
- and portable library to store structured data, please check it out:
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- http://purl.net/meta4/metakit
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- If you are a C++ programmer interested in persistent storage, Winsock, or
- simple client/server applications for TCP/IP, you will probably find some
- useful code / ideas in MetaKit. It even has a utility to create catalogs
- of remote FTP servers (yes, these catalogs can be browsed with CatFish).
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- MetaKit registration is US$25, source code is $90 (multi-platform: $165).
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- DISTRIBUTION
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- The CatFish utility is copyright Meta Four Software, NL. You may use this
- free software for any purpose, as long as you leave all copyright notices
- in place and assume all risks for its use, regardless of the consequences.
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- CONTACT INFORMATION
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- Jean-Claude Wippler mailto:jcw@meta4.nl
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- Meta Four Software http://purl.net/meta4
- Meekrap oord 6
- 3991 VE, Houten fax:+31 30 635 2337
- The Netherlands
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