Enables you to reorganise files and directories into virtual directories
or 'Groups'. Groups and their contents are displayed to the user in a file
manager style lister. Files can be accessed using the mouse and user-defined
actions can be assigned to different filetypes.

Items within a particular Group can be physically stored absolutely anywhere
(e.g. hard-disk, cd-rom, floppy etc.) yet they appear as if they all belong
to the same directory. If you have a hard-drive and/or a large collection of
cd's or floppies, Formation works like a an interactive disk catalogue
allowing easy cross-referencing of files by theme.

Formation provides a sophisticated search engine which includes filters for
text strings, dates and filetypes. The results of each search can be saved
to a Formation Group, copied to a new drawer or archived.

SINCE V1.1. ... DIRECTORY CACHING option for seamless browsing of removable media!

NEW FOR V1.3. ...

* Added Drag and Drop support:

   Files and directories can now be dropped directly into a 'Group' from
   Workbench or DOpus.

   'Hide' mode now uses an AppIcon instead of the old title bar. This means
   that if (for some strange reason ;-{ ) you prefer to use Opus listers to
   navigate through your directories you can still take advantage of Formation's
   comprehensive filetype handling (as defined in Action Prefs) by just dropping
   a file on to the icon. Doing so will bring up the Actions requester.

* GUI now sports 'cool-look' icon gadgets.
  String gadgets now respond instantly to input (no need to hit RETURN)
  and interact in real-time with listers (still using GadTools !).

* I have changed the Formation font (FormFont) to a smaller pitch. It also now
  colour. This only affects the icons that appear in the lister and the select
   file/path gadgets. I think it looks nice and aids readability.

* File size and date information now appears in the main lister when in Browser
  mode or when a directory contained within a Group is selected.

* Various minor bug-fixes and modifications.


THIS PROGRAM IS SHARWARE. The registration fee is now only 5 UKP (was 10 UKP).
I have reduced the fee due to the extremely poor response I have had since I
released Formation. Don't be deterred if you find bugs - let me know when you
send your payment and I will do my best to fix them before I send out your copy.

Please also visit the Formation homepage at ...
http://www.amigaworld.com/support/formation/index.html

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[generic]                    0       0 ****** -lh0- 0000 Nov  9  1997 formation/default.prg
[generic]                  858    1636  52.4% -lh5- c6d2 Nov  9  1997 formation/fonts.info
[generic]                   31     264  11.7% -lh5- b9d2 Jan 22  1998 formation/fonts/FormFont.font
[generic]                 1925    3660  52.6% -lh5- ede3 Jan 22  1998 formation/fonts/formfont/12
[generic]                   34     264  12.9% -lh5- 3956 Apr  7  1998 formation/fonts/FormFontc.font
[generic]                 1574    5016  31.4% -lh5- 40e6 Apr  7  1998 formation/fonts/formfontc/10c
[generic]                79261  225300  35.2% -lh5- d6d1 Jul 12  1998 formation/Formation
[generic]                  969    1432  67.7% -lh5- bc44 Nov  6  1997 formation/Formation.guide.info
[generic]                 1330    1837  72.4% -lh5- b8a9 Jul 12  1998 formation/Formation.info
[generic]                  683    1880  36.3% -lh5- 3efe Apr  2  1998 formation/images/Gadgets
[generic]                  188     990  19.0% -lh5- b08d Sep  7  1997 formation/images/pointers
[generic]                    0       0 ****** -lh0- 0000 Jul  5  1998 formation/default.grp
[generic]                    0       0 ****** -lh0- 0000 Jul 12  1998 formation/cache/
[generic]                16229   42200  38.5% -lh5- 7b99 Jul 12  1998 formation/Formation.guide
[generic]                 1450    2692  53.9% -lh5- ad86 Jul 12  1998 formation/Formation.readme
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 Total        16 files  104742  287489  36.4%            Jul 14  1998