Another option would be to give all the students a free linux boot disk,
such as the Ubuntu one (http://www.ubuntu.com/). They could boot their
computers off the disk, run linux, use all the unix utilities and access
local and (if all goes well) network drives.
Martin
Mark Davies wrote:
> This next semester, I'd like to have the students in my Corpus
> Linguistics class learn to use Grep tools for searching large corpora. I
> know there's many great, fast Unix tools, but these students will be
> using Windows machines. If possible, the program would have the
> following features:
>
> -- Fast, since they'll be working with fairly large corpora (100 million
> words and more)
> -- Obviously, full regular expressions capability
> -- Not run under Cygwin or a similar program, but rather as a native
> Windows app
>
> I've already looked at PowerGrep, V-Grep, and TextPad, but none of these
> are adequate. Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance.
>
> Mark Davies
>
> ============================================
> Mark Davies
> Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics
> Brigham Young University
> (phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906
> Web: davies-linguistics.byu.edu
>
> ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
> ** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
> ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
> ============================================
>
>
>
-- Martin Wynne Head of the Oxford Text Archive and AHDS Literature, Languages and LinguisticsOxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford UK - OX2 6NN Tel: +44 1865 283299 Fax: +44 1865 273275 martin.wynne@oucs.ox.ac.uk
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