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- $VER: BuffyGuideSearch.txt 1.02 (24.05.2000)
-
- Documentation for the Buffy Guide Search
-
- (C) Copyright 2000 Matthew J Fletcher - All Rights Reserved.
- amimjf@connectfree.co.uk - www.amimjf.connectfree.co.uk
- ------------------------------------------------------------ */
-
-
- Inroduction
- -----------
- This program was created to be used in conjunction with Chris Sheffields
- Buffy.guide, a truly outstanding collection of buffy info. Anyway various
- diffrent methords were used to try and get a decent search engine into
- the guide, using LASAGS and Chris's own custom ARexx code, however none
- of these really worked well, so i wrote a better version.
-
-
- Usage
- -----
- This search engine is basicly a cut down version of my regular expression
- engine, but the useage is much simpler. The best way to do it, is just to
- click on the search button in the guide. However it can be used seperatly
- like this..
-
- cd BuffyGuide/
- BuffyGuideSearch Buffy.guide -s
-
- where -s should be used if you want case sensitive search, or
- -h for help, or -v for verbose (lots of) output, or -d for the internal
- debug mode, which is probably best left alone, UNLESS you find a problem.
-
-
- Requrements
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- An Amiga, with a 020+ CPU and OS 3.x at least 20k of ram (yes 20k).
- You will of course need Chris Sheffields Buffy.guide, which can be found
- on aminet.
-
-
- Compilation
- -----------
- This code compiles for amiga gcc and dice, and borland c for windows, it
- should work with others, but i cant test it. If you want to look at the
- code please feel free, if you want to compile it try...
-
- Then type,...
-
- make -f makefile.amiga.gcc
- or
- dmake -f makefile.amiga.dice
-
- and your program will appear in a few seconds.
-
-
- Extras
- ------
- There is a port of the AmigaGuide system to windows (on aminet), so you can
- re-compile this code to be used with Chris's guide on windows systems if
- you really want to, you will have to make a project file yourself, but the
- sources have been coded so that support for BorlandC is in there.
-
-
- Bugs
- ----
- My code does not have bugs,.. no honist it dont,.. but the exe was compiled
- for 68020+ systems an so wont work on A500s.
-
- If you find anything going werid, dont spam Chris cos its not his error,
- mail me at the above address and i will see about it.
-
- But please, please give me lots of info, search string, your system (ram,
- processor, software versions, patches, background hacks etc). BUT most
- importantly a good description of the problem,.. if i cant reproduce it
- then i can fix it.
-
-
- Thanks
- ------
- Chris Sheffield, for creating the wonderfull buffy guide..
- Adam Dyer, for helping with a very annoying bug in the code..
- Amiga Corp, for letting me have one of the developer boxes..
- Buffy, for just being buffy...
-
-
- - Matthew J Fletcher
-
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