The package
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It contains both the user & developer docs/sources.
User will find interesting tools such as DMcontrol or ** DMlauncher **
the datamaster.library
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datamaster.library is a standard Amiga Shared library.
None of the existing recognition libraries suited my needs, so I decided
to create mine (good old programmer's behaviour ;-)
So...What is "so special" in datamaster?
Well, here are its main features:
* A MODULAR architecture,with external `recognizer's, that can be very
easily listed, added, removed,etc... by user, with the DMcontrol
program.
These `recognizer's are real subprograms, not old classic user-defined
strings!
This means two things:
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1) Such `recognizer's are extremely FLEXIBLE, being made of "real
code", they can recognize ANY `filetype'.
As an example of the recognizer's flexibility,there is even a
LINK-Datatypes recognizer,that uses the datatypes.library!
It's just in case you find brand new datatypes you REALLY need,
and there is no existing recognizer (yet ;-),so you can use this
'bridge' to datatypes meanwhile.
2) YES, YOU users won't be able to spend nights defining
"Matchbyte=XXX" filetypes anymore :)
BUT....don't worry, as:
- The current "bank" of recognizers surely suits 99% of
your needs :) There are LOTS of them already...
- Programming a `recognizer' is rather trivial.
- If there is feedback (I hope so :), there will be updates
of recognizer files, exactly like for external music
players, or xpk sublibraries.
* Small & fast library (100% assembler).
(The library itself is 6Kb or so!!...then you add/remove the recognizers
YOU need).
* The recognizers are sorted by priority:recognizers that are known to be
slow/rare, or handling very much `filetype' will have a low priority
etc etc... So----->speed gain.
* datamaster.library offers 2 `filetype' checking modes:
->REAL `DATA checking' ("heavy" mode,but very precise).
Whatis.library does it too,it's true,but datamaster uses external
`recognizer's using >>REAL CODE<<.This should beat all the
MATCHBYTE(0x44ff00..) thing I guess....And `recognizer's come out
with a 100-200 bytes size which is not that much you'll agree!
->FILE `PATTERN matching',very classic,used in most the previous
libraries of this kind before.(accuracy:so,so :-)
For programmers:
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* The main recognition functions are very easy to use.
(ONE library call is enough :)
* Many support functions.
These functions are for all kind of text/string comparisons,search etc...
They were made to be used in the `recognizer's, but they may be used as
well in your own programs.
Note: being an assembly programmer, I thought of these functions for asm
users. (C users already have most of these in amiga.lib)
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