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].
All Programms and Data mentioned belowed can be find in the Download Area at the bottom of the page.
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, ReactOS, OpenSolaris, Linux (SuSE 7.0 to 11.2) DOS emulators (DOSEmu (very fast searching), DOSBox, FreeDOS under VirtualBox / Bochs / QEmu, with DOSBox under FreeBSD, and under OS X with DOSBox and Q(special development stemming from QEmu). FreeDOS under Microsoft VirtualPC© and WindowsVista© is very slow. 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 searching (disk I/O) speed, flexibility and ease of use and DOSBox for its stability and high terminal I/O speed.
Downloads:
DOSBox and V&F for Win-32 as a .zip archive (corrected batch files)
DOSBox and V&F for LINUX as a bzip2-compressed tar-archive (64 and 32 bit)
DOSEmu V&F for LINUX configuration (requires DOSEmu installed) as a zipped archive – get DOSEmu or .rpm package to run. Easy installation; runs from floppy disk image with its own configuration file.
DOSEmu V&F for LINUX example configuration to show the principles (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)
Bochs and V&F for LINUX example installation as a bzip2-compressed tar-archive (64 bit – download Bochs source or binaries if you are running another system)
DOSBox and V&F for OpenSolaris (Intel x86) as a .tar.gz archive
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
Microsoft VirtualPC© virtual FreeDOS hardd disk with View & Find(zipped files)
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
Utilities:
Assembly language utilities for DOS written by B.Meißner
Unix programs improved and ported to DOS and other operating systems: time execution timing utility and lsh small shell
GNU UNITS v. 2.14 (units conversion program), RECODE v. 3.7-beta2 and BSD WHEREIS, ported to DOS by B.Meißner
All of the above in one zip archive
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: [email protected]
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)
Download Area
AUTHOR
V&F has been written by Burkhard Meissner, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany.
Letzte Änderung: 21. März 2018