software: Unix, Gramcord, xword, uu--- (175)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Sat, 11 Mar 89 00:55:31 EST


Humanist Mailing List, Vol. 2, No. 699. Saturday, 11 Mar 1989.


(1) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 10:58:31 EST (29 lines)
From: janus@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Louis E. Janus)
Subject: unix utilities for humanists -- suggestions

(2) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 14:22:51 EST (23 lines)
From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Unix software

(3) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 14:02:41 GMT (24 lines)
From: Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@CM.SOTON.AC.UK>
Subject: Unix?

(4) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 12:09 (33 lines)
From: Wujastyk <UCGADKW@EUCLID.UCL.AC.UK>
Subject: xword, uuencode

(5) Date: 10 March 1989, 09:01:21 EST (18 lines)
From: John C. Hurd (416) 978-3056 HURD at UTOREPAS
Subject: Gramcord

(6) Date: 10 Mar 89 12:53:10 gmt (8 lines)
From: D.Mealand@EDINBURGH.AC.UK
Subject: Biblical material on line: Gramcord and Bibles in French

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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 10:58:31 EST
From: janus@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Louis E. Janus)
Subject: unix utilities for humanists -- suggestions



In response to David Mealand's request about useful UNIX utilities for
literary computing, I can suggest two approaches:

1. If he (or anyone else) requests me to, I will send my
class notes, handouts and assigments from a class I taught to undergraduates
twice on just this topic.

2. We requested some time ago the BERKELEY package called "HUM-- A
Concordance and Text Analysis Package." It installed easily on our VAX systems.
+ I have unfortunately misplaced the address of the humanities consultant who
helped me, but his name was TIM MAHER at Berkeley. This package can do
KWIC, KWOC, reverse concordances, word character and digraph frequency counting,
and a cross-reference generator. All of the modules have the proper UNIX-
flavor, allowing piping, redirection, and using other UNIX utilities (like SORT)
when desired. The package was done under the direction of William Tuthill in
the early 1980's.

-Louis Janus
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN 55057 USA
507/663-3486.
janus@stolaf.edu

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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 14:22:51 EST
From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Unix software

UC Berkeley has a package of batch-oriented routines
for generating concordances on UNIX (HUM package).
It can be ordered for a nominal fee from the
Campus Software Office (cld-cso@ucbcmsa.bitnet for
more information), or write to Claire LeDonne,
Campus Software Office, Information Systems &
Technology, UC Berkeley, CA 94720.

The package also contains a number of ancillary
routines for preparing text for concording, specifying
character set, sort order, etc. It was originally
written by Bill Tuthill, now with Sun.

Charles B. Faulhaber
Department of Spanish
UC Berkeley CA 94720
bitnet: ked@ucbgarne
internet: cbf@faulhaber.berkeley.edu
telephone: (415) 642-2107
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 14:02:41 GMT
From: Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@CM.SOTON.AC.UK>
Subject: Unix?

I don't think David Mealand need look very far for tools under Unix
useful for text-processing. I am sure he can acquire OCP for most
machines (if he buys a FORTRAN compiler, that is, which will not come
as standard with yer average Unix box), but otherwise he should ensure
that he purchases the Documentors Workbench and the Writers Workbench
utilities (unless they are bundled) - the latter not as useful as it sounds.
Maybe other people can recommend 3rd party software; I'd recommend a
good read of The Awk Book, and getting a copy of the Icon programming
language from Arizona. I don't know whether others would agree, but I
think there is quite a mental hurdle to leap when you start trying to
construct things under Unix, because of the piping mechanism, and the
emphasis on concatening small tools which are in themselves trivial.
The tendency to construct a program which does everything you want
should be suppressed in favour of seeing whether 10 existing tools
will do the job. Forget about efficiency, and concentrate on what the
Unix environment is good for - rapid, personalised prototyping.

Sebastian Rahtz


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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 12:09
From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-C at UCL) <UCGADKW@EUCLID.UCL.AC.UK>
Subject: xword, uuencode


Xword is a shareware program that converts between different word processor
file formats. It can deal with
ASCII,
WordStar 3.3 or 4.0,
XyWriteIII (orII),
Nota Bene,
Multimate (or Multimate advantage),
WordStar 2000 (release 2),
WordPerfect (4.1 or 4.2), and
dBase III comma-delimited (target only).

This list is taken from my documentation to version 2.24, which is what
registered users get. I think the one that HUMANIST has is 2.23, the only
one that is meant to be circulated freely. It may have one or two fewer
options. Xword runs under DOS.

UUencode and UUdecode are a couple of programs that allow one to transfer
binary files (containing horrid characters that choke the networks) as
ordinary mail. UUencode reads a file and converts it into a plain ASCII
representation; UUdecode turns it back into the original. More advanced
implementations of UUencode/decode will automatically divide the
ASCII file into chunks small enough to mail, and reassemble the chunks
afterwards. Otherwise you have to use your editor (easy enough). These
programs were developed as part of Unix, although the code is not difficult
and they have been implemented on nearly every machine.

Dominik

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Date: 10 March 1989, 09:01:21 EST
From: John C. Hurd (416) 978-3056 HURD at UTOREPAS

In partial response to Duane Harbin's query concerning GRAMCORD. I have
not used the other pieces of software that he mentions, but assume they
help pastors find their way around the English Bible. GRAMCORD,
however, is in a class by itself as yet. It provides the Greek New
Testament text and a morphological identification of each word form.
The software allows searches through the text which produce concordances
of selected grammatical patterns, e.g., all the genitive absolutes in a
book or books. Or all the adjectival material in the second attributive
position. Etc., etc. The software is written in Pascal and is batch
oriented. The project is twelve years old now, and is supported by a
stable organization at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in
Chicago. I have used the materials for more than a year and find them
uniquely valuable. Paul Miller is the contact person; he is prompt in
his responses and very helpful: The Gramcord Institute, 2065 Half Day
Road, Deerfield, IL 60015 (312-223-3242).
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Date: 10 Mar 89 12:53:10 gmt
From: D.Mealand@EDINBURGH.AC.UK
Subject: Biblical material on line: Gramcord and Bibles in French

For discussion of tools, texts etc. in this field see J.J. Hughes
Bits,Bytes and Biblical Studies, Zondervan 1988

David M.