Re: Mahidol CD

At the risk of being boring, I compared notes on these technical
issues with Mme Filliozat (who is thoroughly familiar with all of the
CD-ROMs available --going back, in her words, to systems that required
Word Perfect version 4 many decades ago) --and when I demonstrated "my
own" system of searching pre-compiled Unicode PDFs, she was quite
taken with it.

Although PDF used to be a very difficult format to search, you can now
grind through them quite quickly with either OS-level search tools, or
applications; I both search Nikaya-specific PDFs (such as can be
downloaded from my website) and can collate these together if I want
to search the entire canon, etc.

If you want to search huge volumes of raw TXT/UTF (not PDF), I would
strongly suggest that you buy a copy of a high powered programming
editor, such as BBedit; although the reliability of PDF now makes this
less desirable.

I should also say that even DOS programs that require you to have the
disc in the drive (= refuse to read the data from the hard drive) can
and will be run by emulators --this is not a big deal.

E.M.