Project Gutenberg - July 1996 (bad rip)

1996 · operating-system · utility · Linux · Windows 3.x · Walnut Creek CDROM

Originally posted to alt.binaries.old.nl by MeiMei. Note: *Missing Mac resource forks. Welcome to the July 1996 edition of the Project Gutenberg CDROM! This CD-ROM contains the etexts (Electronic Texts) of the Gutenberg Project for 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, and some of 1996. The etexts on the disc include literature such as Aesop's Fables, Alice in Wonderland, Moby Dick, and Paradise Lost; popular literature such as Tarzan, Treasure Island, Sherlock Holmes, Les Miserables, and The Secret Garden; historical documents such as the Magna Carta, U.S. Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Inagural Addresses, and the NAFTA documents; references such as Roget's Thesaurus, almanacs, census data, the CIA World Fact Book, "Surfing the Internet", and mathematical constants (pi, e, prime numbers); religious documents such as the King James Bible, and the Book of Mormon. Most of the texts are provided in both ascii and zip archives. Here are some important files and directories. readme.txt Documentation regarding this CDROM view.exe File Browser/Uncompressor for MS-DOS 00_index.htm Index for this CDROM in HTML format. setup.exe Windows Setup program for this disc docs\ Miscellaneous documents concerning this disc texts\ Project Gutenberg Electronic Texts for MSDOS/Macintosh texts\etext90\ Project Gutenberg Electronic Texts, 1990 texts\etext91\ Project Gutenberg Electronic Texts, 1991 texts\etext92\ Project Gutenberg Electronic Texts, 1992 texts\etext93\ Project Gutenberg Electronic Texts, 1993 texts\etext94\ Project Gutenberg Electronic Texts, 1994 texts\etext95\ Project Gutenberg Electronic Texts, 1995 texts\etext96\ Project Gutenberg Electronic Texts, 1996 texts\freenet\ Historical etexts from the Cleveland Freenet zipped\ Project Gutenberg Electronic Texts (ZIPPED) \zipped\etext90\ Project Gutenberg Electronic Texts, 1990 (ZIPPED) \zipped\etext91\ Project Gutenberg Electronic Texts, 1991 (ZIPPED) \zipped\etext92\ Project Gutenberg Electronic Texts, 1992 (ZIPPED) \zipped\etext93\ Project Gutenberg Electronic Texts, 1993 (ZIPPED) \zipped\etext94\ Project Gutenberg Electronic Texts, 1994 (ZIPPED) \zipped\etext95\ Project Gutenberg Electronic Texts, 1995 (ZIPPED) \zipped\etext96\ Project Gutenberg Electronic Texts, 1996 (ZIPPED) \zipped\freenet\ Historical E-texts (ZIPPED) macutils\ Macintosh utilities* utils\ Utilities utils\w16view.exe File Browser for Windows 3.1. utils\w32view.exe File Browser for Windows 95, Windows NT, and Win32s. =========================================================================== Quick Start Instructions: Windows 95: Insert the cdrom into the cdrom drive. This will automatically start a CDROM browser program called WinView. Windows 3.1: Go to "File" menu under program manager and choose Run. At the Command Line box, type: "D:\setup", assuming 'D' is your cdrom drive. This will install a group folder with icons for this cdrom. MSDOS Quick Start: Change to your CDROM drive and type "view". Example: C:\> D: D:\> view Please consult the VIEW.DOC file in the \docs\ directory for full documentation on using VIEW.EXE. =========================================================================== Using the 00_INDEX.HTM files We have included 00_index.htm files so the user may use a Web browser to view our disc. In order to view this disc using these 00_index.htm files, point your Web browser to the root level 00_index.htm file. For example, in Netscape/Mosaic: 1) Choose File/Open File (or File/Open Local File with Mosaic) 2) Choose your CDROM Drive under "Drives" 3) Select the 00_index.htm file 4) Click on OK The 00_index.htm files have been tested under Netscape 1.1 (Windows, Macintosh, and FreeBSD), Netscape 1.22 (Windows), Netscape 2.0b2, Mosaic 2.00 (Final Beta), and Microsoft Internet Explorer. =========================================================================== USING THE DISC -- MACINTOSH To use the disc using a Macintosh, merely double-click on the file you wish to view. =========================================================================== This disk conforms to the level 1, ISO-9660 format. All the filenames are limited to eight single-case characters, with an extension of up to three characters. Most directories have an index file named 00_index.txt that contains a description of each file in the directory. =========================================================================== WinView and View To make browsing the disc easier, we have included the program WinView for Windows, and the program VIEW for MSDOS on the CDROM. These programs allow you to page through index files, browse through directories on the CD, view documentation and uncompress/install the program(s) you want onto your hard disk. ========================================================================== Opus -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The \_bbs\opus directory contains the tools that created the files.bbs (files.txt for English, files.ger for G