Re: Step by step to using Pali resources

Dear Robert,

> Dear Jim,
> It all seems to work and the little box pops up (immediately) saying job
> completed but I can't find the file where the conversion is located. It
> seems to convert it too fast?

It does convert rather fast (a few seconds for me). The file isn't directly
presented to you by the program itself. You have to go to the folder where
the file was copied to (default: C:\cscd\temp). Use Windows Explorer or go
to the MS-DOS prompt. The file will have an unfamiliar name with numbers in
it and you might also see an error text file (just ignore or delete). I
would change the name of the large file so that you can easily recognize it
like an1.txt, an1-a.txt (atthakatha), an1-t.txt (tika), etc. and move it
into another folder where you want to store all these texts and clean out
the temp folder for the next time you use the cscdconv program.

> Does Budsir come with roman charcters and would it be worthwhile to buy?

Yes it does. I think you'll find all the details at budsir.org and possibly
a demo to download. There is a disk for folks like us and another one for
the Thai speaker with translations in Thai. The texts of the disk is
accessible online like at tipitaka.org but there are some major differences
and copying a text from the website is not an easy matter. I tried and
failed. I don't know if the disk would be worthwhile for you to buy as it
all depends on what you want to do. It's very expensive (US$299) and the
disk has only a couple of tikas. I bought Budsir IV for DOS in 1996 before
the CSCD became available. I'm only familiar with the older version of
Budsir and can only speak for the one I have. It makes copying a text very
difficult and you can only copy a few pages at a time which is save in a
file which you then have to go to in MS-DOS and do some converting and
cleaning up to make it useable. I only use the disk sparingly and usually
when I want to do a close comparison of different versions of the same text.

Would you or anyone else here by chance know of a 12-fold classification of
dhammaaramm.ana-s? I'm familiar with the 6-fold classification in the
Abhidhammatthasangaha but the 12-fold one is new to me. It's in the
Patisambhidamagga commentary near the beginning of the
sutamaya~naa.naniddeso in the part that deals with the all (sabba.m
bhikkhave abhi~n~neyya.m). Dhammas are defined as: "dvaadaspabhedaa
dhammaaramma.naa" but there is no explanation of what the twelve categories
are.

Best wishes,
Jim


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