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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 | ||
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|ERLU || Reference List File ||<code>4F4352AB</code>|| | |ERLU || Reference List File ||<code>4F4352AB</code>|| | ||
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| + | |ELIM || Library Data Modules ||<code>454C494D</code>|| | ||
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| + | ==Samples== | ||
| + | * [https://archive.org/details/lds-cd-rom-library-1995 Portals LDS Library] | ||
| + | * [https://archive.org/details/the-pc-sig-library-on-cd-rom-ninth-edition PC-SIG Library 9th Ed.]: uses WordCruncher WCView 4.30 | ||
| + | * [https://archive.org/details/pc-sig-library-1991-cd PC-SIG Library 10th Ed.]: uses WordCruncher WCView 4.30 | ||
| + | * [https://archive.org/details/cdrom-pcsig12 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 [https://archive.org/download/cdrom-pcsig12/pc-siglibrary12thedition1993.iso/REF%2FDISK3005.ZIP #3005] (viewer and indexer programs) and [https://archive.org/download/cdrom-pcsig12/pc-siglibrary12thedition1993.iso/REF%2FDISK3015.ZIP #3015] (manual and tutorial files) on this CD-ROM. The tutorial files include uncompressed .BYB files. | ||
| + | * [https://archive.org/details/cdrom-pcsig13 PC-SIG Library 13th Ed.]: primary interface is HyperReader, but WordCruncher WCView 4.30 is also used | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||
Latest revision as of 15:45, 11 November 2024
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].
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[edit] 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".
[edit] 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 |
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| ENBU | Notes File | [8] | |
| ETGU | Book Graphics | 45544755 |
[9] |
| ERLU | Reference List File | 4F4352AB |
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| ELIM | Library Data Modules | 454C494D |
[edit] Samples
- Portals LDS Library
- 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
- PC-SIG Library 13th Ed.: primary interface is HyperReader, but WordCruncher WCView 4.30 is also used
[edit] References
- ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/30207396?seq=1
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1987-11/page/n255/mode/2up
- ↑ https://wordcruncher.com/faq
- ↑ https://ldsview.wordcruncher.com/
- ↑ https://wordcruncher.com/docs/indexer
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20060903012243/http://wordcruncher.byu.edu/wordcruncher/EtaDocumentation.htm
- ↑ https://wordcruncher.com/docs/etax
- ↑ https://wordcruncher.com/docs/book-options#note-files
- ↑ https://wordcruncher.com/docs/image-library
