What's new in CatFish 1.9               Copyright (C) 1996-1999 Equi4 Software


LONG CATALOG NAMES

Long catalog names can now be used when CatFish is used on Windows 95 and NT.
The catalog window list was widened slightly to better show such long names.
There is a new "Rename Catalog" command under the file menu to adjust names.

EXPORT IMPROVEMENTS

CatFish now exports starting from the currently selected directory, allowing
you to export parts of a saved catalog.  A text line at the top indicates
this.  Furthermore, a long-standing column alignment problem has been fixed.

FASTER AGAIN

The perfomance of CatFish has been improved substantially yet again, when
opening as well as when saving catalogs.  To achieve this, this release will
spend a little time analyzing existing catalogs when started for the first
time.  After that, both operations will be more than twice as fast as before.      

LIMITS RAISED

Even the limit of 8000 directories per catalog has now been removed.  Believe
it or not, there really are CDROMs out there with over 8000 directories (this
also makes CatFish well-prepared for future trends such as DVDs).

USER INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS

The "Scan" dialog has been completely redesigned to make it much easier to use.
The directory list has been embellished with a couple of "Explorer-like" icons.
The "root" of a partial catalog is now the name of the parent (was disk label).
Asks to insert the proper disk if a document or application cannot be launched.
Statistics about all catalogs are shown on startup (see lower right status).

KNOWN PROBLEMS (these are the same as in version 1.8)

On Windows 3.1x, the disk size of CD-ROMS and removable disks may be reported
as 128 Mb.  The total directory sizes reported by CatFish are still accurate.
On some screens with large fonts, displayed texts can be incorrectly aligned.

COMPATIBILITY

This release can read catalogs from any of the previous versions of CatFish,
the software if fully upward compatible.  It is also downward compatible with
release 1.8, meaning you can always go back to 1.8 if you don't like 1.9 ...

FULL SOURCE CODE

Now that the MetaKit database engine is open source, the CatFish source code
has been made freely available under the same X/MIT-style license.  See the
website for download and license details - http://www.equi4.com/metakit/


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