View & Find for Linux using DOSBox 0.74 to launch the program.
N.B.: DOSBox is an emulator – it is not fast.
DOSEmu under Linux is more than 10 times faster:
If you can setup DOSEmu, – use this with V&F (and switch to V&FRUN.EXE
with /S parameter).
How to set-up a ready-to-run V&F:
When in Linux, open a shell (xterm).
Copy linux_tar.bz2 into your home directory.
Use bzip2 to uncompress file: bzip2 -d linux_tar.bz2.
Use tar to unarchive the file: tar -xvf linux_tar.
Make sure, directory structure is preserved (there will be an opt sub directory
in your home directory, and a viewfind directory under it).
Make sure, all the files end up in ~/opt/viewfind. If necessary, copy files manually.
Make sure, all your beta code files are under ~/opt/beta (or ~opt/viewfind/beta)
(~/opt/beta/tlg ~/opt/beta/phi53 etc.). If this is not the case, either
set appropriate symbolic links or adjust the profile.v&f file. ~/opt/beta will
be referred to as „E:“ in your DOSBox. Thus, „E:tlg“ will be the same as
~/opt/beta/tlg in your Linux directory structure ( ~ denoting your home directory).
Go to your newly created directory:
cd ~/opt/viewfind
Launch V&F
./dosbox -conf vaf.conf
or
./vaf
There is a v&f.png icon file which you can use to create a symbolic
starter on your desktop.
Have fun, view and find Greek and Latin texts.
You will find a copy of the WIN32 betautf8.exe program enclosed which
is useful to convert V&F output to something meaningful to the OpenOffice
word processor and similar products.
In the doc sub directory, there is ample documentation. Read v&fdoc.pdf
first. If you run into problems, don’t ask me – ask your colleagues; they
can help you as little as I.
Burkhard Meißner
P.S.: Instead of DOSBox, you should use DOSEmu, if possible. I have been
using this since years with much success.
It is by far more stable and faster than DOSBox. It is, however,
more difficult to compile and set-up.
If you use VirtualBox and a FreeDOS drive image (slow, but stable), make sure you
use V&FRUN.EXE /S and PRECEDE THE CALL BY A CALL TO A DPMI SERVER!
hdpmi32
v&frun /S
Some systems are so strange in their DOS emulation that they do not allow for the
„&“ in command lines (like UNIX systems do). If this is the case, try to rename the
program:
mv v&frun.exe v_frun.exe
or:
ren v&frun.exe v_frun.exe
Or else enclose the program name in quotation marks:
„./v&frun.exe /S“
Letzte Änderung: 21. März 2018