What is GOfer?

If you know you wrote a memo discussing widget sales months ago but can't remember in which of hundreds of cryptically named documents this information resides, you've got a problem. Fortunately, Microlytics has come up with a solution: a nifty DA that lets you find the electronic equivalent of a needle in a haystack without digging into every haystack individually.

GOfer was one of the first DAs that could search through all the text on a hard disk looking for text strings as well as file names. Boolean searches on multiple criteria were also possible, and GOfer worked in both the background and the foreground, which was necessary because search speed was a little less than a megabyte a minute.

Now there's a new version (2.0) of GOfer. Its feature set is not much different from version 1.0, but its performance has been greatly improved. The complex interface has been simplified a bit and is now far more intuitive, with powerful new search options. Search speed has also been noticeably increased.

I don't use search programs like this as much as I thought I would before I got one, but sometimes having one on call is vital. With this new release, GOfer has moved to the head of its class.

Bobker, Steven. (November 1989). Bobker's Dozen. MacUser. (pg. 296).

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac