Re: Looking for killer file finder
Dan Olsson wrote: and still there is no OS that can multitask as well as it could Er ... is this the Amiga OS running on 68000-series chips? With no memory protection? Meaning that a misbehaved program could take down the entire system? ;) ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: Looking for killer file finder
On 6/5/07, Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Olsson wrote: and still there is no OS that can multitask as well as it could Er ... is this the Amiga OS running on 68000-series chips? With no memory protection? Meaning that a misbehaved program could take down the entire system? ;) Yep, but multiple programs could crash AmigaOS at the same simultaneously! At the same time PCs were running DOS 3.2 and Windows 1.0 with EGA graphics. -- Paul ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: Looking for killer file finder
On 6/5/07, Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Olsson wrote: and still there is no OS that can multitask as well as it could Er ... is this the Amiga OS running on 68000-series chips? With no memory protection? Meaning that a misbehaved program could take down the entire system? ;) Hence the Guru Meditation Errors - unrecoverable GPFs. Few and far between, but nasty when they happen. I believe an MMU was provided with the 68020 and later models that provided memory protection. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: Looking for killer file finder
At 2007-06-05 14:40, you wrote: On 6/5/07, Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Olsson wrote: and still there is no OS that can multitask as well as it could Er ... is this the Amiga OS running on 68000-series chips? With no memory protection? Meaning that a misbehaved program could take down the entire system? ;) I did not say it was perfect :) only much better than any existing OS:s at the time. If it wasn't for bad marketing from Commodore... BTW, does that sound familiar? Great product - bad marketing? Hence the Guru Meditation Errors - unrecoverable GPFs. Few and far between, but nasty when they happen. But it also (if that's reason) had some advantages, you could as an example make a bootable ramdisk so you needed only to load systemfiles after a cold start. The ramdisk survived soft reboots so the next time you could boot up entirely from memory - pretty slick :) ** * Dan Olsson * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.dolittle.se ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: Looking for killer file finder
On 6/5/07, Dan Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it also (if that's reason) had some advantages, you could as an example make a bootable ramdisk so you needed only to load systemfiles after a cold start. The ramdisk survived soft reboots so the next time you could boot up entirely from memory - pretty slick :) Oh, you don't need to sell me! I owned a couple, moonlighted at a job where I sold them part-time nights and weekends, worked with an Amiga User Group, and even wrote a couple of articles. Amiga DOS was superior to DOS and competitive with MacOS. There was even a UNIX port, at one point. Great stuff, lousy marketing. Hmm, that reminds me of something else... -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
RE: Looking for killer file finder
Great stuff, lousy marketing. Hmm, that reminds me of something else... Yeah, me too. The HP 100vg Ethernet protocol. It does not depend on Collision Detect Resend technology, as it is totally collision free, and even in a fully loaded LAN with up to 1,024 devices one could be assured of no less than 98mps net throughput for network packets. Why did it die? FUD and horrible marketing. Gawd, do not even get me started! I still use 100vg as my LAN backbone, and have one client using it for nearly all of their LAN/WAN topography - with excellent performance results. The only reason we ever have to segment their LAN into various subnets is because we run out of IP Addresses at times. Never for performance reasons. Gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Looking for killer file finder On 6/5/07, Dan Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it also (if that's reason) had some advantages, you could as an example make a bootable ramdisk so you needed only to load systemfiles after a cold start. The ramdisk survived soft reboots so the next time you could boot up entirely from memory - pretty slick :) Oh, you don't need to sell me! I owned a couple, moonlighted at a job where I sold them part-time nights and weekends, worked with an Amiga User Group, and even wrote a couple of articles. Amiga DOS was superior to DOS and competitive with MacOS. There was even a UNIX port, at one point. Great stuff, lousy marketing. Hmm, that reminds me of something else... -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: Looking for killer file finder
Hi I have been offline since soon after posting the original mail to this thread - please don't think I posted and ran. Thanks to all who replied with suggestions (which I am looking into) as opposed to those of you (Amiga fans) who decided to hijack the thread without even having the decency to change the subject g Paul mrgmhale wrote: Great stuff, lousy marketing. Hmm, that reminds me of something else... Yeah, me too. The HP 100vg Ethernet protocol. It does not depend on Collision Detect Resend technology, as it is totally collision free, and even in a fully loaded LAN with up to 1,024 devices one could be assured of no less than 98mps net throughput for network packets. Why did it die? FUD and horrible marketing. Gawd, do not even get me started! I still use 100vg as my LAN backbone, and have one client using it for nearly all of their LAN/WAN topography - with excellent performance results. The only reason we ever have to segment their LAN into various subnets is because we run out of IP Addresses at times. Never for performance reasons. Gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Looking for killer file finder On 6/5/07, Dan Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it also (if that's reason) had some advantages, you could as an example make a bootable ramdisk so you needed only to load systemfiles after a cold start. The ramdisk survived soft reboots so the next time you could boot up entirely from memory - pretty slick :) Oh, you don't need to sell me! I owned a couple, moonlighted at a job where I sold them part-time nights and weekends, worked with an Amiga User Group, and even wrote a couple of articles. Amiga DOS was superior to DOS and competitive with MacOS. There was even a UNIX port, at one point. Great stuff, lousy marketing. Hmm, that reminds me of something else... -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: Looking for killer file finder
On 6/4/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/3/07, Dan Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I AM a registered user of Directory Opus - but that was at the dawn of time on the Amiga - and still there is no OS that can multitask as well as it could - on a 4.77 Mhz CPU if memory serves me right... I used to use Dir Opus on the Amiga too. 7 Mhz, according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1000 Former owner, A1000, A500, A2000 and all the cool accessories. Amiga A4000, 50Mhz 68060, SCSI, graphics card and packed with RAM (IIRC 60Mb :-) It's in bits in a cardboard box. I keep meaning to put it back together but I've lost the original case (it was in a full size tower but my PC's in that now). -- Paul ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: Looking for killer file finder
Take a look at: Funduc Software Search and Replace http://www.funduc.com/search_replace.htm Gianni - Original Message - From: Paul Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:12:48 +0100 Subject: Looking for killer file finder Hi all I have been a great fan of PowerDesk Pro and have lately been looking at Directory Opus but there are some features of the old PC Tools for Windows (or was it Norton Desktop for Windows ?) file finders that I really miss. In particular, one could specify (and save for re-use) *arbitrarily* defined:(i) search locations and (ii) file specifications. For example I could define something like/approximating this: C:\Sources [+] ; F:\ ; F:\Folder2 ; D:\Folder3\Folder4 [+] as being the places I want to search and save this collection for re-use as, say, My search places x. (The [+] indicates and sub-folders) Similarly I could define something like this: *.PPT ; *.XLS as being the types of files I want to look for and save this collection as, say, Presentation spreadsheets. In addition I could define filename matching, file contents, size, date modified etc in the usual way (but not necesasarily save these parameters). This approach is much more flexible than saving the search places and file types together as a saved search. Can anybody recommend a file finder (either standalone or as part of a file manager like Powerdesk) with this kind of functionality ? PS For anybody using PowerDesk or similar, I would say that Directory Opus is definitely worth taking a look at Cheers Paul Newton ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: Looking for killer file finder
At 2007-06-03 23:12, Paul Newton wrote: I have been a great fan of PowerDesk Pro and have lately been looking at Directory Opus but there are some features of the old PC Tools for Windows (or was it Norton Desktop for Windows ?) file finders that I really miss. In particular, one could specify (and save for re-use) *arbitrarily* defined:(i) search locations and (ii) file specifications. -snip- Can anybody recommend a file finder (either standalone or as part of a file manager like Powerdesk) with this kind of functionality ? Definitely. Invest some time in Total Commander (http://www.ghisler.com) and I think you would find that and much, much more... PS For anybody using PowerDesk or similar, I would say that Directory Opus is definitely worth taking a look at Well, I AM a registered user of Directory Opus - but that was at the dawn of time on the Amiga - and still there is no OS that can multitask as well as it could - on a 4.77 Mhz CPU if memory serves me right... ** * Dan Olsson * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.dolittle.se ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: Looking for killer file finder
On 6/3/07, Dan Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I AM a registered user of Directory Opus - but that was at the dawn of time on the Amiga - and still there is no OS that can multitask as well as it could - on a 4.77 Mhz CPU if memory serves me right... 7 Mhz, according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1000 Former owner, A1000, A500, A2000 and all the cool accessories. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: Looking for killer file finder
Paul Newton wrote: Hi all I have been a great fan of PowerDesk Pro and have lately been looking at Directory Opus but there are some features of the old PC Tools for Windows (or was it Norton Desktop for Windows ?) file finders that I really miss. In particular, one could specify (and save for re-use) *arbitrarily* defined:(i) search locations and (ii) file specifications. For example I could define something like/approximating this: C:\Sources [+] ; F:\ ; F:\Folder2 ; D:\Folder3\Folder4 [+] as being the places I want to search and save this collection for re-use as, say, My search places x. (The [+] indicates and sub-folders) Similarly I could define something like this: *.PPT ; *.XLS as being the types of files I want to look for and save this collection as, say, Presentation spreadsheets. In addition I could define filename matching, file contents, size, date modified etc in the usual way (but not necesasarily save these parameters). This approach is much more flexible than saving the search places and file types together as a saved search. Can anybody recommend a file finder (either standalone or as part of a file manager like Powerdesk) with this kind of functionality ? You might try xyplorer. It's free, portable, you can save file settings to a template, etc. Pretty good. You don't get a search locations list but you can have an excluded folders list, with that and subfolder searching you'd be near of what you ask for. Besides searching you have tons of other pluses like tabs, locked tabs, favorites, global renaming directory and directory reports (to csv too), and many other stuff. Did I tell you it's FREE? PS For anybody using PowerDesk or similar, I would say that Directory Opus is definitely worth taking a look at Cheers Paul Newton ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
