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Short: Powerful Aminet index handler
Author: Franck ANIERE (aniere@univ-mlv.fr)
Uploader: Franck ANIERE (aniere@univ-mlv.fr)
Version: 2.0
Type: util/misc
AmiSearch II is a powerful Aminet index handler. It can help
you a lot with Internet files or Aminet CD ROM.
AmiSearch II offers the following features :
- Quite fast : I totally rewrote the search engine, based on optimsed search
algorithms. On my Amiga 1200/030/50 an index with more than 60000 entries is
searched in less than 10 seconds (20 seconds for AmiSearch).
- Nice graphical interface using MUI, very easy to use
(help bubbles).
- Many configuration options.
- Instead of having a single search pattern you have one for each Aminet index
field : name, path, size, age, disk, description. This allows you to have
more precise searchs (ex : name containing "web" and path containing "comm").
Your last 10 patterns are saved to disk and are usable with a popup gadget.
- The 'age' pattern can also use operators like <, >, <= or >= so you
can easily know which files came to Aminet while you were sleeping
on the beach...(ex : pattern '<=8' looks for files of max. age 8 weeks).
- Indexes are no longer treated like text files : a special file format, named
AS2DB, turns indexes into real databases. The conversion of indexes to this
format is totally handled with the graphical interface and is very easy.
Moreover converted indexes are smaller than the original ones.
- You can update your databases very easily, and you can even update the Internet
databases with a RECENT file. For Aminet CDs you can even use an automatic
script which will do everything for you (except changing CDs...).
- Many index formats are handled, including all Aminet CD formats.
- Databases can be exported to other formats if needed (ex : Superbase).
- Search result is shown in a special lister, allowing you to calculate the size
of your selection (you can even know how many disks are needed to store this
selection) or to apply a defined command to each entry : you can define 4 user
commands (ex : extraction) and you have 6 internal ones, including HTML or
Amiga Guide output.
- The internal commands allow you to handle your files very easily : the Amiga Guide
file can extract/view archives/pictures from your CDs and the AmFTP scripts allows
you to download files from Internet automatically.
- AmiSearch II is almost free, as it is mousepad-ware.