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- From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
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- Subject: [comp.sys.amiga.announce] Aquarium replacement now available: KingFisher
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- Date: 16 Dec 1992 09:27:57 GMT
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- Archive-name: auto/comp.sys.amiga.announce/Aquarium-replacement-now-available-KingFisher
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- 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.
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- KingFisher offers the following features:
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- - Maintains a split database across multiple disk volumes,
- - Searches this database more than 3 times faster than Aquarium,
- - 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,
- - String gadgets are optionally kept active for keyboard comfort,
- - Full configuration saved between executions,
- - Iconifies to save Chip RAM (46K).
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- KingFisher comes supplied with a complete AmigaLibDisk database (Fish
- Disks 1-770) and is available on the following public ftp sites as
- 'KingFisher.lha' (477691 bytes):
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- 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 /amiga/Aquarium (*)
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- (*) Not certain at this time if these are where KingFisher will show up.
-
-
- ._. 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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