View and Find
PURPOSE
View & Find is a fast, flexible and versatile program to interact with, decode, extract, search and automatically index the beta code files on the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae E and Packard Humanities Institute #5.3 and #7 CD ROMs. In addition, the program works with other material converted into beta code as well [Oxford text archive OTA files, Prof. Dr. J.Malitz' CONCEyst/IGEyst files (MC tools to convert these files can be downloaded here: MC), Frankfurter Epigraphische Datenbank files].
SYNOPSIS
V&FRUN [ /S ]
or
SPITRUN V&F.SPX [ /S ]
DESCRIPTION
Because of its high speed and flexibility, View and Find used to be expensive. However, it is now in the PUBLIC DOMAIN and can be downloaded here. The program runs under DOS emulation under several operating systems and has been used successfully together with DOSBox under Windows XP, Windows Vista, OpenSolaris, Linux (SuSE 7.0 to 11.2) DOS emulators (DOSEmu (very fast), DOSBox, FreeDOS under VirtualBox / Bochs / QEmu, with DOSBox under FreeBSD, and under OS X with DOSBox and Q (special development stemming from QEmu). It also works under native DOS, of course, provided a 32-bit processor is present in the system. For Linux systems, we recommend DOSEmu for its high speed, flexibility and ease of use and DOSBox for its stability.
Downloads:
DOSBox and V&F for Win-32 as a .zip archive
DOSBox and V&F for OpenSolaris (Intel x86) as a .tar.gz archive
DOSBox and V&F for LINUX as a bzip2-compressed tar-archive (64 bit - download DOSBox if you still need 32-bit or if you have to compile DOSBox yourself)
DOSEmu V&F for LINUX example installation (requires DOSEmu installed) as a gzip-compressed tar-archive - get DOSEmu or .rpm package to run
Qemu and V&F for LINUX example installation as a bzip2-compressed tar-archive (64 bit - download Qemu source or binaries if you are running another system)
DOSBox and V&F for OS X example installation as a bzip2-compressed tar-archive (install a version from the DOSBox page for serious work)
DOSBox and V&F for FreeBSD example installation as a gzip-compressed tar-archive
Programs to convert V&F output to unicode (UTF-8)
Documentation:
Further hints for setting up DOSEmu (zipped file)
Short documentation how to use V&F under Windows
Short documentation how to set-up and use V&F under Linux and DOS emulation
Comprehensive usage manual in .pdf format
Description of V&F and its usage in text statistics
LICENSING
V&F is distributed under the GNU General Public License without any warranty and without the source code. To contact the author, either use his e-mail address: bmeissne@hsu-hamburg.de
or his university post box:Prof. Dr. Burkhard Meissner
Professur für Alte Geschichte
Helmut-Schmidt-Universität
University of the Federal Armed Forces
Holstenhofweg 85
D-22043 Hamburg (Germany)
AUTHOR
V&F has been written by Burkhard Meissner, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany.
