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 Lingua Graeca 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 files, CONCEyst/IGEyst files, 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 and Linux (SuSE 7.0 to 11.2), together with DOSEmu under SuSE Linux (very fast) and with Q (special development stemming from QEmu) under OS X. 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 reasons of stability and speed.
Downloads:
Short documentation how to use V&F under Windows
Short documentation how to set-up and use V&F under Linux and DOS emulation
DOSBox and V&F for Win-32 as a .zip 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)
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.
