Copyright
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FindCopy is copyrighted by me, Dr. Ice in 1996-97, but is released
as FREEWARE. This program may NOT be sold for any profit, except
from disk-charge and mailing exspences. The author can NOT be held
responsible if FindCopy should crash, or damage your system..
Use it on your own risk (I do ;)), you are warned..
What is FindCopy?
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FindCopy is a program that can find a filename within ABBS
in less than 5-6 seconds ;).. But, if the Filecache (togglecache)
is on, it will take 1-2 seconds to find it.. We are talking
about micro-seconds! ;).. This is quite like, but unlike the
FindFile program someone made for ABBS earlier...
Why the speed !?
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The reason for FindCopy being so fast as it is, is because it's
not using/loading any .FL files to check with. In other words;
It uses the ABBS mainport! :)
Test
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I have tested this program with and without filecache (these values
are tested when NOT finding a file):
Tested with Amiga 4000/030 2+18 MB RAM
Without Filecache: 6 seconds
With Filecache : 0.40 seconds, great huh!?
Usage
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Make sure you have these files:
* PPMORE - Should be located in C:
* LhA - Should be located in C:
* LZx - Should be located in C:
* ARJ - Should be located in C:
You can run this program in two ways, eigther by writing:
FindCopy filename
Or you can just write:
FindCopy
The last one will open a text requester asking you to enter the
name of the file you wish to find.. When found, a requester will
pop up with these choices:
Cancel, Copy to, View, Extract and About..
Cancel - Quit..
Copy to - Copy the found file to a new destination..
View - View Archieve..
Extract - Extract archieve..
About - Show some (useful) info..
Greetings/Thanks!
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This utility was created using Amiga E, thanks to Wouter for making
this possible to do .. I would also thank Øyvind Husabø for giving
me the header files to make this POSSIBLE! :)..
I must Also thank Geir Inge Høsteng for making such a good BBS
system.. To bad you are ending the history of ABBS! :((
The greetings must go to:
stC^FLD, Shaolin^LSC, Cybertracker^LSC, Isaac^CTZ, Crude^Session,
Thundercat^LSC, Cyan^LSC, Science^LSC, JEO, Darkwing^FLD, nOP^STS,
Pdy^OPS, Shag^OPS, Wivern^OPS, WhizzKid^OPS and the rest of OPS,
Splash^MGS and to all I have forgotten...
History
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v1.0
- First Release
v1.1
- Fixed some small bugs..
- Added support for DIR filerequester selector..
- Added About button, guess what this does !? :)
- Added some small features, I can't recall what! :)
- Added support for Extract and View Archieves as:
* LHA, LZH Extract and View Supported
* LZX Extract and View Supported
* ARJ Extract and View Supported
* TXT, DOC, E Only View supported
- Added some new file info such as:
* FileSize
* File Comment
* File Downloads
v1.15
- Added a window requester saying Extracting/viewing file, this is
much better than watching a clean screen... :)
- Rewrote some small parts of the code...
- Renamed the button "skip it" to "Cancel" :)
Contact/Bug reports/Improvements
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If you like to contact me, then do it by one of the follwing ways
(or two)...:
E-MAIL: kaarej@barentsnett.no
BBS: Key Stroke BBS - +(47)-7847-1042
SNAIL: Kåre Johansen
Nordvågveien 17d
N-9750 Honningsvåg
Norway
Have fun using this great utility...
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