SequoiaView Homepage
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/01
I thought I had scheduled a blog post about the great tool on [WayBack] SequoiaView Homepage, but didn’t. In the mean time, Paolo Buffa posted an overview with a really nice historic perspective:
Is amazing from how many years I’m using this program, and how many operating systems it managed to go thru almost unscathed, without modification.
Paolo Buffa
Source: [Archive.is] SequoiaView: a piece of history. – Data Center IT – Spiceworks
I still use it, despite it being quite old: 2002 era, written in Delphi 5. It’s beautiful in part because of its anciency, but also because it is so simple and intuitive that I still use it regularly.
The age also shows in the web page (which when writing it was still on-line): The SequiaView home page link above is actually a classic frame
inside [WayBack] The SequoiaView Homepage. Back then, it was already starting to be considered obsolete to write HTML using frameset
[WayBack] Framing (World Wide Web) – Wikipedia.
The SequoiaView [WayBack] Download Page even points to non-existing ftp-download URLs via counter CGI scripts:
- Version 1.2 installer: http://www.win.tue.nl/cgi-bin/usr/sequoia/counter2.cgi -> ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/home/sequoia/SequoiaInstall.exe
- Version 1.3 installer: http://www.win.tue.nl/cgi-bin/usr/sequoia/counter3.cgi -> ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/home/sequoia/Sequoia1_3Install.exe
- Version 1.3 installer for Windows XP: http://www.win.tue.nl/cgi-bin/usr/sequoia/counter3xp.cgi -> ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/home/sequoia/Sequoia1_3XPInstall.exe
- Version 1.3 zipped installer: http://www.win.tue.nl/cgi-bin/usr/sequoia/counter3zip.cgi -> ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/home/sequoia/Sequoia1.3Install.zip
None of them have been archived by the WayBack machine: https://web.archive.org/web//ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/home/sequoia//
To verify alternative downloads, just check these hashes:
hash command filename hash output $ md5
Sequoia1.3Install.zip
MD5 (Sequoia1.3Install.zip) = 28d356f2bafe258805794257c284a075
$ md5
Sequoia1_3XPInstall.exe
MD5 (Sequoia1_3XPInstall.exe) = 142586a5cc7a0139bde8c13e5cc4d301
$ shasum
Sequoia1.3Install.zip
762ab30177a7f6a0d4f173fd2442ba7b61df4c2e Sequoia1.3Install.zip
$ shasum
Sequoia1_3XPInstall.exe
c1db10a0f7d36adbc14b5a7a3f08fc35db1bee8b Sequoia1_3XPInstall.exe
I’ve a copy in my archive that I just use in a portable way: just copy over SequoiaView directory with these files in it:
Archives.col
DEFAULT.COL
Images.col
License.txt
Movies.col
ReleaseNotes.txt
Sequoia.cnt
Sequoia.exe
SEQUOIA.HLP
Sound.col
You can download this from gist.github.com/jpluimers/b0df9c2dba49010454ca6df406bc5f3d (ef94f1875377f4054e3a434f8942e1749f0af74a.zip).
A few things that could be fixed (if ever hopefully MagnaView open sources it: [WayBack] @jpluimers More @magnaview did you ever consider to open source the Delphi code for http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ or give someone NDA access to fix some bugs?):
- Access violation when re-scanning a drive
- Option to show multiple links to the same physical file
- Indication of more rights needed to index a file or directory
- Better explorer integration (via context menu)
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