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History
0.00-0.99 Econet Program Registration Utility- Progister (1990)
1.00-1.99 Econet File Seek & Destroy Utilities- Hunter/Destruct (1990)
Prompt driven
Single-tasking action
2.00-2.34 Hunter Plus (1991)
Menu driven
Multitasking implemented
Direct fileserver communication added
3.00 Development prototype based on Hunter Plus (1993)
MessageTrans used throughout
Filer_Action-like behaviour implemented
3.01-3.02 In-house prototypes
3.03 Limited release (mid-1993)
Non implemented features shaded
3.04-3.49 In-house prototypes
3.50 Limited release (mid-1997)
Style guide compliance added
High resolution icons added
3.51-3.59 In-house prototypes
3.60 First Freeware release (mid-1997)
Alphanumeric key support added
3.61-3.64 In-house prototypes
3.65 Second Freeware release (late 1997)
Low resolution icon support fixed
Menu help completed
Key handling added (best on RISC OS 3)
Window designs improved
Error handling improved
Piping/taskwindow support added
3.66-3.69 In-house prototypes
3.70 First German Freeware release (late 1997)
Uses Kasoft Application Territorial Resources Model
Modified Richard Atterer's windows for RISC OS 3.1
Added long lost features
3.71-3.74 In-house prototypes
3.75 Second German Freeware release (late 1997)
German templates further improved by Richard Atterer
Case insensitive searches, wildcarded searches
Dragging to icon bar icon adds to search bin
Clicking on key bin opens alphanumeric key window
Dependent on KaData module
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Future
4.00-4.49 Hunter_Action Freeware
(Filer_Action replacement, Freeware releases)
FiletypeExtend aware
More options (operate on invisible files, make
invisible files visible at the destination,
unsquash Squash files at the destination)
More operations (hide, unhide, squash, unsquash,
remap)
Dynamic area space used on RISC OS 3.50
Single-tasking support
Replace OS_FSControl operations
4.50-4.99 Hunter_Action commercial
(Filer_Action replacement, commercial releases)
Undo buffer for actions
More options (structure-only, load/save not open,
restamp on copy, look at destination first, grow
forever, open directory viewers to show progress,
graph progress, show progress in a taskwindow,
summarize action before beginning and when
complete, alert when complete, use progress bar
instead of numeric display, broadcast messages
indicating progress to monitor tasks, subcontract
operation to helper task, skip errors without
intervention, read and write files simultaneously,
verify written files for readability, turn image
files into directories, change CSD and don't use
full paths, throwback results to editor)
More operations (optimize, close files, open/close
viewers, batch run/load/print/edit, structure-only
copy, batch commands, user-defined prompted
operations and, of course, hunt)
5.00- Hunter commercial
(Commercial Wimp front end to Filer_Action replacement)
Monitoring and control of Hunter Action Windows
Support for throwback from Hunter Action Windows
Improved matching specifications (wildcards,
delimiters, special characters and sequences)
Improved action specifications (replace, sort,
order, split, join and piping of reports into
parameters of further searches)
Hierachial dialogue structure
Save user preferences and search parameters to files
Report files can be loaded, edited and resaved
Support for AddressDevice DA MapFS