UHC Tools has been around for a while now, but I don't think that many people know about it.
In short it is a collection of utilities and scripts to make your Amiga more powerful. Most parts of UHC Tools require a network or internet connection to do this.
The main feature is what we call the searchers. The most popular searchers are aminetsearch, fishsearch, modlandsearch and whdloadsearch, but there are more. Each searcher generally consist of a search script, an extract script and a readme script, but some have more.
To give an example, lets say you are looking for the latest SysInfo version on aminet. Then you can use aminetsearch like this:
8.Ram Disk:> aminetsearch sysinfo
# Filename Path Size Description
0 SysInfo101.lha comm/cnet 6K SysInfo V1.01 Shows info system
1 Sysinfo_Amiplug.lha comm/irc 7K Plugin for AmIRC to show system specs.
2 SysInfo_Oberon.lha dev/obero 16K AO Interface for SysInfo.library v1.30
3 SysInfo.lha util/moni 53K Classic Amiga System Information Program
4 SysInfo40_noFPU.lha util/moni 1K No FPU version of SysInfo 4.0
5 batsi.lha util/moni 4K Add your expansion boards to SysInfoThe important thing to note is the leftmost index number, which is then used with aminetreadme to read the more detailed description, or together with aminetextract to download and extract the archive:
8.Ram Disk:> aminetextract 3
Downloading de.aminet.net/aminet/util/moni/SysInfo.lha
Receiving file: 0% - [oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo] - 100% (52.93kB)
Extracting SysInfo.lha to Ram Disk:
8.Ram Disk:> list sysinfo#?
SysInfo Dir ----rwed Today 20:55:16
SysInfo.info 740 ----rwed 14-Aug-19 21:53:10
1 file - 1 directory - 4 blocks usedSo very quick and easy to search, read readmes, make a decision and then the download and extract is done in one operation.
There are also other very useful utilities, like
SynergyClient which makes it possible to control your Amiga keyboard and mouse input from another computer, like the Amiga was one of its screens.
UHC Tools is available for AmigaOS 2.04+, MorphOS 1.4+, AmigaOS4+ and AROS i386.
Details on how to install it and what exactly is included can be found at
http://uhc.driar.se/ or
http://aminet.net/package/util/misc/UHCTools.