It is very simple to use but please find below a few hints from devotees who have been using it for many years: Searching: To download the original free MS-DOS version of the Prabhupada folio please click on the link below: You can very easily save your compilations of Prabhupada quotes to a file on your computer complete with the references as to which book, conversation, letter, etc they come from and then open these saved files up in a word processing program to nicely format your compilations of Prabhupada quotes.It is very simple and very easy to use and works on all versions of Windows including Windows 7 and Windows 8.It only has the teachings of Srila Prabhupada, not the teachings of every ISKCON devotee like the Bhaktivedanta Archives Vedabase.It is not perfect but it is not changing… It is some sort of stable and unchanging reference point to the original teachings of Srila Prabhupada. It is not changing every time the archives release a new version.It was produced in 1998, it contains the original Bhagavad-gita As It Is and Krsna Book and a lot less changes than you will find in the current Bhaktivedanta Archives Vedabase.The advantages of using the MS-DOS Folio Views Program include: So anyhow Bhakta Alan has just produced an installer that you can run on virtually any version of Windows that will install this original Prabhupada MS-DOS folio on your computer and add two icons to your desk top, one for the plain-text version and one for the version with the diacritical marks. You just hit the space key and the search box pops up and you type in what you want to find and it finds it for you instantly. They say it is much better than the windows version. Even today there are many, many devotees who are still using this MS-DOS version of the Prabhupada folio. This MS-DOS Prabhupada folio was immensely popular with the devotees.
This first MS-DOS version of the Vedabase using the Mormon’s ‘Folio Views’ program was very easy to use and immediately the “Prabhupada Folio” became a must for any ISKCON devotee who wanted to seriously research the teachings of Srila Prabhupada. It turned out to be the perfect program for storing all the teachings of Srila Prabhupada and enabled the Hare Krishna devotees for the first time to use a computer to search through the teachings of Srila Prabhupada. So they came up with a MS-DOS program called “Folio Views”. It is an abbreviation for “Microsoft Disk Operating System…” In those days also the Mormons were looking for a way to use computers to store all their scriptures in a database and allow their members to search through them for research purposes. By Madhudvisa dasa | Full size image 12 MS-DOS Prabhupada Vedabase / Folio Viewsīefore Microsoft invented windows they had another operating system running on their computers called “MS-DOS”.
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