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- History
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- 0.00-0.99 Econet Program Registration Utility- Progister (1990)
- 1.00-1.99 Econet File Seek & Destroy Utilities- Hunter/Destruct (1990)
- Prompt driven
- Single-tasking action
- 2.00-2.34 Hunter Plus (1991)
- Menu driven
- Multitasking implemented
- Direct fileserver communication added
- 3.00 Development prototype based on Hunter Plus (1993)
- MessageTrans used throughout
- Filer_Action-like behaviour implemented
- 3.01-3.02 In-house prototypes
- 3.03 Limited release (mid-1993)
- Non implemented features shaded
- 3.04-3.49 In-house prototypes
- 3.50 Limited release (mid-1997)
- Style guide compliance added
- High resolution icons added
- 3.51-3.59 In-house prototypes
- 3.60 First Freeware release (mid-1997)
- Alphanumeric key support added
- 3.61-3.64 In-house prototypes
- 3.65 Second Freeware release (late 1997)
- Low resolution icon support fixed
- Menu help completed
- Key handling added (best on RISC OS 3)
- Window designs improved
- Error handling improved
- Piping/taskwindow support added
- 3.66-3.69 In-house prototypes
- 3.70 First German Freeware release (late 1997)
- Uses Kasoft Application Territorial Resources Model
- Modified Richard Atterer's windows for RISC OS 3.1
- Added long lost features
- 3.71-3.74 In-house prototypes
- 3.75 Second German Freeware release (late 1997)
- German templates further improved by Richard Atterer
- Case insensitive searches, wildcarded searches
- Dragging to icon bar icon adds to search bin
- Clicking on key bin opens alphanumeric key window
- Dependent on KaData module
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- Future
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- 4.00-4.49 Hunter_Action Freeware
- (Filer_Action replacement, Freeware releases)
- FiletypeExtend aware
- More options (operate on invisible files, make
- invisible files visible at the destination,
- unsquash Squash files at the destination)
- More operations (hide, unhide, squash, unsquash,
- remap)
- Dynamic area space used on RISC OS 3.50
- Single-tasking support
- Replace OS_FSControl operations
- 4.50-4.99 Hunter_Action commercial
- (Filer_Action replacement, commercial releases)
- Undo buffer for actions
- More options (structure-only, load/save not open,
- restamp on copy, look at destination first, grow
- forever, open directory viewers to show progress,
- graph progress, show progress in a taskwindow,
- summarize action before beginning and when
- complete, alert when complete, use progress bar
- instead of numeric display, broadcast messages
- indicating progress to monitor tasks, subcontract
- operation to helper task, skip errors without
- intervention, read and write files simultaneously,
- verify written files for readability, turn image
- files into directories, change CSD and don't use
- full paths, throwback results to editor)
- More operations (optimize, close files, open/close
- viewers, batch run/load/print/edit, structure-only
- copy, batch commands, user-defined prompted
- operations and, of course, hunt)
- 5.00- Hunter commercial
- (Commercial Wimp front end to Filer_Action replacement)
- Monitoring and control of Hunter Action Windows
- Support for throwback from Hunter Action Windows
- Improved matching specifications (wildcards,
- delimiters, special characters and sequences)
- Improved action specifications (replace, sort,
- order, split, join and piping of reports into
- parameters of further searches)
- Hierachial dialogue structure
- Save user preferences and search parameters to files
- Report files can be loaded, edited and resaved
- Support for AddressDevice DA MapFS
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