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- From: wenicp@iwsd01.itwol.bhp.com.au (Peter Nicholson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: KingFisher
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.160438.115@iwsd01.itwol.bhp.com.au>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:04:38 +1000
- References: <1k2bikINNid9@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Organization: BHP Information Technology
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- In article <1k2bikINNid9@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan Cano) writes:
- >
- > I thought I remembered seeing a discussion of KingFisher in here in
- > comp.sys.amiga.applications but I just viewed the entire news group
- > here at my local site and I don't see any articles regarding
- > KingFisher (or any other FF dataBase program).
- >
- > Has anyone else experienced any problems with KingFisher? Say perhaps
- > KingFisher hanging?
- >
- > My experience:
- >
- > I just got KingFisher and I was trying it out. I decided to
- > update the DataBase with FF disks 771-790 so I got the appropriate
- > 'Contents' files, concatenated them into one big file, and then
- > told KingFisher to added them into the DataBase. This seemed to
- > work. Next I tried to move around in KF and it just hung. The
- > gadgets in its window would appear selected when I clicked on them
- > but nothing would happen. I could select menu items (like 'quit')
- > but nothing wouud happen...
- >
- > I know that this may have already been beaten to death but if someone
- > who knows the state of affairs with KingFisher could drop me an email
- > message I would appreciate it. (i.e. is there a new version available
- > or on the way?
-
- From memory, the latest version is 1.15 (?),
- I have had no problems updating the database.
-
- > By the way, I think KF is a great improvement over Aquarium but I do
- > have a suggestion (or two?): KF should have a way of traveling to the
- > beginning or the end of the database
-
- This exists in the latest version.
-
- > ============================================
- > | Jonathan Cano | // _ |
- > | jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu | \\ // (_) |
- > | 10kyu (+- 2kyu) | \X/ |< |
- > ============================================
-
- Regards,
-
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