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From: foy@aerospace.aero.org (Richard Foy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fish Compendium Name (Re: CD-ROM for the Amiga)
Keywords: Sun CD-ROM
Message-ID: <81414@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
Date: 18 Aug 90 16:17:56 GMT
References: <1870@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <1990Aug18.054937.11246@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Reply-To: foy@aero.UUCP (Richard Foy)
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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In article <1990Aug18.054937.11246@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
...
>>This is why it is so important to have a CD-ROM
>>available that will sell fairly well; one that will cause folks to go out and
>>buy a drive. Personally, I think that a _fully_ indexed Fred Fish collection,
>>whether it be on 1 disk or 3, along with a good search engine, would be the
>>catalyst that starts the ball rolling (or the CD-ROM spinning).
>
>Another solution of course is to make the Amiga software and hardware
>compatible with the existing CD-ROM data disks.
>
I would be perfectly happy to have all of the Fish Disks just copied
onto the CD Rom. 

Currently I have a simple ARexx program that does  apretty good job
of finding things. I have copied all of the Fish Contents files 
(for the approx 300 disks which I onto my hard drive). The ARexx
program searches those files in the background and when it finishes 
the whole list it opens a window with all of the hits.

It is not very sophisticated. If I had the complete disks on a CD-Rom,
it would be very simple to enhance the ARexx script to do much more.

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