RE: Step by step to using Pali resources

Dear Jim,
Thanks, I tried but somehow it is not working or I am working it wrong,: I
go to the temp file but click on it and nothing coming ups; but nevermind I
can cut and pastee with the palitrans for now.
I won't bother with Busdsir- appreciate you coments.
I wonder if the 12 bases (Dvadasayatanani) are meant in your question below,
they are somtimes called the 'all'.
best wishes
robert
   -----Original Message-----
   From: Jim Anderson [mailto:jimanderson_on@...]
   Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 12:50 AM
   To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
   Subject: Re: [palistudy] 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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