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- I CHING - The Chinese Oracle of Change
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- Copyright 1991, L.R.Ramsey
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- PO Box 13, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, ENGLAND, DE7 5XJ
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- 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.
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- ENVIRONMENT REQUIRED
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- 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.
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- ELEMENTS OF THE PROGRAM
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- 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.
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- STARTING THE PROGRAM
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- At the DOS prompt, type in ICHING and press enter. Good Luck and
- welcome to the fascinating world of Ancient China.
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- FOOTNOTE
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- 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.
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