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I CHING - The Chinese Oracle of Change
Copyright 1991, L.R.Ramsey
PO Box 13, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, ENGLAND, DE7 5XJ
This program represents an accurate simulation of the Ancient Chinese
oracle known as the I CHING, or Book of Changes. Such an oracle has
been used in the past to foretell the future or to analyse the
present.
Devotees of the I Ching include or have included Sir Bob Reid, the
current chairman of British Rail, Carl Jung (the psychoanalytical
guru), Confucius (the chinese philosopher), Leibnitz (the mathe-
matician) and Hermann Hesse (the novelist).
As well as simulating the oracle the program provides a
distillation of scholarship relating to the I Ching.
This program is unique in that I have never seen a properly
computerised version of the I Ching before.
ENVIRONMENT REQUIRED
The program will work with any kind of display, from Monochrome text
to VGA as it uses only the ASCII character set in text mode.
Due to the way that the program is structured, with all the text
stored externally, it will run in 128K and requires less than 170K of
disk space.
Version 2.11 of DOS or above is necessary. Printouts can be
produced on any Epson or IBM compatible printer.
To install the program on a hard disk, use the DOS XCOPY command
with the /S option to copy the subdirectories.
ELEMENTS OF THE PROGRAM
There is one compiled program ICHING.EXE. This program presents a menu
with 8 options.
Options 1 - 5 give access to information about the I Ching spread
across 22 screens and covering, respectively, a quick Background, a
History lesson, a summary of the underlying Philosophy, an explanation
of the Symbolism and a guide to the Interpretation of the oracle.
Option 6 allows the user to put a question to the oracle, which
will then answer with up to 4 screens of text. The answer can be
printed or written to a text file with a name of the users choice.
Option 7 allows the user to view any of the 64 symbolic hexagrams
used by the oracle, about 250 screens of text in all. Option 8 ends
the program.
There are three sub-directories containing text used by the
program. These are TEXT, containing 5 lessons, which are accessed by
options 1 - 5, TEXTH, which gives explanations of the 64 hexagrams and
TEXTL, which contains 384 sub-texts which relate to individual lines
of the hexagrams.
STARTING THE PROGRAM
At the DOS prompt, type in ICHING and press enter. Good Luck and
welcome to the fascinating world of Ancient China.
FOOTNOTE
If you would like details of a Windows/3 Version of the program with
Graphics and extended features, please contact the author at the above
address.