Re: New version of CSCD

Dear Bh. Nyanatusita,

Thank-you for the information. I first became aware of the new software late
last November. Frank Snow of VRI had asked me if I would be interested in
testing the Beta version of CST4 or knew anyone who would. I told him that
my 56k internet connection was too slow to download the software and asked
if this could be mailed to me on a CD. He had someone from Toronto mail me
the Beta 11 version which I installed and have tested it a bit. It only
works on an XP or Vista operating system but apparently a version is in the
works for the MAC OS. On an older XP system you will probably have to
upgrade to .NET Framework 2.0 (another 23 MB download).

I see that Beta 12 (24.4 MB) has since replaced Beta 11. I did notice a bug
with the search feature in Beta 11 but hopefully that has now been fixed.
All the texts are amazingly compressed in the 24.4 MB installation program.
I noticed that the texts seem about the same as the ones on CSCD 3 and
wonder if any of them have been corrected. It seems that the typos I noticed
in the Kaccaayanabyaakara.na text on CSCD 3 still remain uncorrected in Beta
11.

Best wishes,
Jim
P.S. I was surprised to learn about Morley Chalmers' involvement with BPS. I
first met him about 30 years ago and he was the one who recently accompanied
me to Laval, Quebec to meet U Thitzana. It's a small world.

> Dear Members,
>
> There is a new software for Chattha Sangayana Tipitaka as prepared by
> the Vipassana Research Institute available from Installation at Chattha
> Sangayana Tipitaka 4.0 Blog <http://www.tipitaka.org/cst/installation/>
>
> The previous software on the CSCD was outdated and had some bugs (the
> program crashed during searches and caused overloading of the CPU),
> which should have been overcome in this new version, the Beta version. I
> have not been able to download it yet due to the slow internet
> connection here.
>
> Best wishes,
>                    Bhikkhu Nyanatusita

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