Short: KingFisher 2.20 (registered & evaluation) Author: Udo Schuermann Uploader: Udo Schuermann Type: biz/dbase This archive contains KingFisher 2.20, a special purpose database system primarily designed for the retrieval of information about software collections on floppies and CD-ROMs. One such database is included: the contents description for all 1000 Fish Disks. Also included is 200K+ context sensitive online help in form of AmigaGuide and RexxFisher, which provides the means for a BBS to access KingFisher's databases. KingFisher is localized for six languages other than English. NOTE: Beginning with this version KingFisher is no longer released in separate registered/evaluation versions. The size and bandwidth problems associated with an ever-growing number of patches make the use of a keyfile significantly more attractive. NOTE: Registered users may receive their keyfile FREE BY EMAIL or as part of their next upgrade (see the documentation for addresses of registration sites.) KingFisher Release 2 Feature Overview: - Client-Server technology provides multiple users (or multiple copies of KingFisher) access to multiple databases, but does not hinder single-user operations, - KingFisher's resizable GadTools interface honors the proportional system font (or any font of your choosing) and can be opened on the default public, and on custom screens, - Search operations can produce Search Sets which may be saved and reloaded, to provide instant access in the future to any previously found record in the database, - Database-specific display, print, and export presentation formats can be defined to produce any desired database presentation, - Hotlinked Product-Info files can be viewed directly; updates to the file are immediately reflected by KingFisher, - Powerful search expressions, including embedded support for AmigaDOS regular expressions, are maintained in a history list whose size is user-definable, - Ability to reconstruct the index files and construct VersionLinks in release-order to browse related software versions, - Through RexxFisher (the ARexx interface to the server) the user- definable data presentation formats and the same powerful search expressions used by KingFisher are available to any program with a Rexx interface! Registration for this software is $20(US) or DM30. Future upgrades are free (by way of Aminet or ftp.) WWW Support Page: http://www.wam.umd.edu/~walrus/KingFisher.html ._. Udo Schuermann ( ) walrus@wam.umd.edu ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 632 279 55.8% 20-Dec-95 01:51:48 KingFisher-Distribution.info 216557 216557 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +1000Fish-1.data.gz 262644 262644 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +1000Fish-2.data.gz 17547 17547 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +1000Fish-Name.index.gz 38981 38981 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +1000Fish.index.gz 292 292 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +1000Fish.kfdb.gz 534 534 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +ARexx.search.gz 2876 2876 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +KingFisher.catalog.gz 3385 3385 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +KingFisher.catalog.gz 2917 2917 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +KingFisher.catalog.gz 2842 2842 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +KingFisher.catalog.gz 2937 2937 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +KingFisher.catalog.gz 2965 2965 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +KingFisher.catalog.gz 89 89 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +Example1.format.gz 60 60 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +Example2.format.gz 85 85 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +Example3.format.gz 140 140 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +Example4.format.gz 140 140 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +Fred Fish.search.gz 34468 34468 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +gunzip 63088 63088 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +Installer 14266 14266 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +KF-GUI.iff.gz 27968 27968 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +KFServer.gz 628 628 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +KFServer.prefs.gz 76353 76353 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +KingFisher.gz 1216 1216 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +KingFisher.info.gz 84 84 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +KingFisher.search.gz 66005 66005 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +KingFisher2.guide.gz 1352 1352 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +KingFisher2.guide.info.gz 951 951 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +LockTest.kfrx.gz 2752 2752 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +Product-Info.gz 1147 1147 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +RexxDemo.kfrx.gz 18917 18917 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +RexxFisher.gz 111 111 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +Udo&Hoover.search.gz 836 836 0.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +Versions.kfrx.gz 8400 8061 4.0% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +WrapGuide 15880 4860 69.3% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +Install-KingFisher 1303 502 61.4% 20-Dec-95 09:15:32 +Install-KingFisher.info 731 235 67.8% 20-Dec-95 09:20:56 +.displayme -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 892079 879070 1.4% 23-Dec-95 14:56:14 38 files