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|ETB || Compressed Book format ||<code>FE430000</code>|| Windows
 
|ETB || Compressed Book format ||<code>FE430000</code>|| Windows
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|ETC || Book Case Data || || Windows
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|ETE || Environment Data || || Windows
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|ETF || Frequency Data || || Windows
 
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|ETG ||Book graphics in [[TIFF]] format ||<code>49492A00</code>|| Windows
 
|ETG ||Book graphics in [[TIFF]] format ||<code>49492A00</code>|| Windows
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|ETT || Translate Data || || Windows
 
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|ETX || Index Data || || Windows
 
|ETX || Index Data || || Windows

Revision as of 05:56, 16 August 2023

File Format
Name Wordcruncher
Ontology
Extension(s) .etb, .erl, .etbu, .erlu, others
Released 1986

Wordcruncher is a text indexing, retrieval, and analysis software developed at Brigham Young University under the name ETC[1] in the early 1980's[2]. Originally called the BYU Concordance Program[3], it also has been licensed to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for viewing scriptures under the LDSView title[4].

Contents

File Information

Wordcruncher can process a text file and produce an index along with a "book" format for use in their viewing software.

DOS versions used extensions beginning with the letter "B", Windows used letter "E", starting in version 7, unicode was added and extensions end with the letter "U".

File Identification

Extension Description Header Notes
BYA Source Text with markup DOS
BYB Compressed Book format DOS[5]
BYC Book Case Data DOS
BYU DOS
BYX Index Data DOS
ETA Source Text with markup Windows[6]
ETB Compressed Book format FE430000 Windows
ETC Book Case Data Windows
ETE Environment Data Windows
ETF Frequency Data Windows
ETG Book graphics in TIFF format 49492A00 Windows
ETT Translate Data Windows
ETX Index Data Windows
ERL Reference List File 4F4352AB Windows
ETAX Source Text with markup in XML Documentation[7]
ETBU Compressed Book format FE480800
ENBU Notes File [8]
ETGU Book Graphics 45544755 [9]
ERLU Reference List File 4F4352AB
ELIM Library Data Modules 454C494D

Samples

  • PC-SIG Library 9th Ed.: uses WordCruncher WCView 4.30
  • PC-SIG Library 10th Ed.: uses WordCruncher WCView 4.30
  • PC-SIG Library 12th Ed.: primary interface is HyperReader, but WordCruncher WCView 4.30 is also used
    • WordCruncher Shareware 4.50 is available as PC-SIG disks #3005 (viewer and indexer programs) and #3015 (manual and tutorial files) on this CD-ROM. The tutorial files include uncompressed .BYB files.
  • PC-SIG Library 13th Ed.: primary interface is HyperReader, but WordCruncher WCView 4.30 is also used

References

  1. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/30207396?seq=1
  2. ↑ https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1987-11/page/n255/mode/2up
  3. ↑ https://wordcruncher.com/faq
  4. ↑ https://ldsview.wordcruncher.com/
  5. ↑ https://wordcruncher.com/docs/indexer
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20060903012243/http://wordcruncher.byu.edu/wordcruncher/EtaDocumentation.htm
  7. ↑ https://wordcruncher.com/docs/etax
  8. ↑ https://wordcruncher.com/docs/book-options#note-files
  9. ↑ https://wordcruncher.com/docs/image-library
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