Welcome to FFDS or FileFindDatabaseSystem Version 1.02 !
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  Introduction
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   If you ever search a file/directory, you know the problem. You have
   to scan your Harddisk(s)/CDROMs every time you search one and if you
   use a wrong pattern you have to do it again ... I`ve six partitions and
   4 of them, doesn`t change within a month or two. So i decide to write
   a couple of ARexx-Scripts and AmigaGuides to build databases of every
   volume. Now i can use a simply textsearcher to serach a file/directory,
   which is must faster than a scan of every volume. If there are a lot of
   changes on a volume i can update it :)

  Requirements
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   - An Amiga with OS3.0 or higher
     (could work with OS>2.04 as well, but i haven`t tested this)

   - RexxReqTools.library

   - about 100kB for the program and some more free space for the
     databases

   - about 0.5-2 MB free RAM (every database is first created in RAM)

   ( With XPK you can compress the databases !)


  Installation
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  You need an installed rexxreqtools.library to use the Installprogram. Don`t
  panic, it will delete nothing. It just copy some files in a directory FFDS
  and the shell-script in a DOS-valid executive path (like c:,s:, etc.) and
  add a assign in your user-startup.

  Contact
 ~~~~~~~~~

   Please report your suggestions to me.

   Lars Unger

   EMail: l.unger@tu-bs.de
   WWW  : http://www.amigaworld.com/lars/ffds.html
   IRC  : Ynthan (visit #hamburg)


  LEGAL STUFF
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~


  Warranty
  --------

  The program is provided "as is":  The author will not be liable for any
  damage, direct or indirect, arising from the use or the impossibility of
  the use of this software.  There is especially no guarantee for the
  correctness, accuracy or validity of data.  The author denies any liability
  or tacit guarantee, especially that FFDS is suitable for a special
  purpose.


  Distribution
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  FFDS (FileFindDatabaseSystem) v1.01 Copyright © 1997 by Lars Unger.
  All rights reserved. This program may be distributed non-commercially
  only providing that the executable, source code, documentation and
  copyright notices remain unchanged and are included with the distribution.
  The archive must contain the following files:

	ffds:rexx
	ffds:bin
	ffds:.config
	ffds:Start-FFDS.info
	ffds:shell-scripts
	ffds:start.rexx
	ffds:Start-FFDS
	ffds:FFDS.guide
        ffds:ffds-help.guide
	ffds:Install.info
	ffds:Install
        ffds:readme.first
        ffds:readme.first.info
	ffds:rexx/build_db.rexx
	ffds:rexx/search_file.rexx
	ffds:rexx/del_db.rexx
	ffds:rexx/update_all.rexx
	ffds:rexx/fifi.rexx
	ffds:rexx/change_dbpath.rexx
	ffds:rexx/exit.rexx
	ffds:rexx/show_settings.rexx
	ffds:rexx/change_packer.rexx
	ffds:rexx/none_packer.rexx
	ffds:rexx/change_search.rexx
	ffds:rexx/change_view.rexx
	ffds:bin/LinkScan
	ffds:bin/volname
	ffds:bin/wbtofront
	ffds:shell-scripts/fifi

  Thanx
 ~~~~~~~

  So, I would like to thank everybody who helped with ideas, critizism
  and their work, especially Wolfgang Lug for testing FFDS and some
  useful hints in english language (i`ve hardly build-in ;) english).
  Try his Amiga World (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rhoek/AmigaWorld or download it
  from Aminet).