Re: Looking for killer file finder

2007-06-05 Thread Alan Bourke
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? ;)

Re: Looking for killer file finder

2007-06-05 Thread Paul Hill
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? ;)

Re: Looking for killer file finder

2007-06-05 Thread Ted Roche
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? ;)

Re: Looking for killer file finder

2007-06-05 Thread Dan Olsson
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

Re: Looking for killer file finder

2007-06-05 Thread Ted Roche
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

RE: Looking for killer file finder

2007-06-05 Thread mrgmhale
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

Re: Looking for killer file finder

2007-06-05 Thread Paul Newton
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

Re: Looking for killer file finder

2007-06-04 Thread Paul Hill
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

Re: Looking for killer file finder

2007-06-04 Thread Gianni Turri
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

Looking for killer file finder

2007-06-03 Thread Paul Newton
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)

Re: Looking for killer file finder

2007-06-03 Thread Dan Olsson
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

Re: Looking for killer file finder

2007-06-03 Thread Ted Roche
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:

Re: Looking for killer file finder

2007-06-03 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
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