From walrus@wam.umd.edu Sat May 1 09:51:11 1993 Received: from thumper.umd.edu by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.2) id AA08962; Sat, 1 May 93 09:51:09 PDT Received: from rac3.wam.umd.edu by thumper.umd.edu with SMTP id AA04095 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Sat, 1 May 1993 12:51:08 -0400 Received: by rac3.wam.umd.edu id AA18248 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for announce@cs.ucdavis.edu); Sat, 1 May 1993 12:51:06 -0400 From: Udo K Schuermann Message-Id: <199305011651.AA18248@rac3.wam.umd.edu> Subject: NEW: KingFisher 1.30 To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 12:51:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL20] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 3404 Status: RO KingFisher 1.30 is now available via anonymous ftp. This major upgrade adds extensive AmigaGuide support, an ARexx port, enhancements for unattended server operation for BBS systems, greatly enhanced keyboard control, especially under KS 2.0+, ability to invoke external commands using the function keys, ability to partially or completely configure the program through tooltypes, numerous KS 2.0+ improvements (gadget colors, tab cycling, help), minor enhancements and fixes all known (and unknown ;-) bugs. 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. Some features are available only under Kickstart 2.0. KingFisher v1.30 offers the following features: - Maintains a split database across multiple disk volumes, - Searches this database more than 3 times faster than Aquarium, - Multi-string searches with AND, OR, and NOT operators (boolean search expressions) including case selection and V37+ regular expressions, - Will highlight search keywords in descriptions, - Provides a small and very fast program name search index, - ARexx port with 13 commands (40+ variations), - Native AmigaGuide support with Gadget-help, Menu-help, etc. - 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, - Now supports the 2.0 display database including Text Overscan. Limited support for overscan, PAL, and interlace displays is available under Kickstart 1.3. - String gadgets are optionally kept active for keyboard comfort, - Full configuration saved between executions, - Iconifies to save Chip RAM (46K). This update consists of one mandatory archive (KingFisher130.lha, sized 173589 bytes) and the optional database (KFData850.lha, sized 490953 bytes) which is distributed more as a convenience feature for those of you who are installing KingFisher for the first time and do not wish to start with the older database in other distributions. KingFisher130.lha and KFData850.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 (*) ftp.cso.uiuc.edu 128.174.5.59 /pub/amiga/KingFisher (*) (*) May take a little time 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"