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					JOYCE CONCORDANCE ENGINE
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In 1997, as a student of Bill Cadbury, at the University of Oregon, in my
opinion, one of the formost scholars of that culminating work of James
Joyce, Finnegans Wake, I discovered that most incredible of resources, the
FWAKE_L electronic mailing list.  It was through this list that I
discovered this concordance. written by the son of longtime list member,
John Williams, and I found it an incredible tool for Joycean scholarship. 

As a budding Perl programmer myself, (and many computer programmers are
readers of Joyce), I wanted to "look under the hood".  I don't remember
how I did it (these things are often very hard to extract from their
servers), but I was able to download the script, which I archived on my own
middenheap of a hard drive, barely to give it a look, until june of 1997,
when, after a three month abscence from the list, I discovered that Mr
Williams had taken leave of the list as well, and his son, was no longer
maintaining this concordance. 

It is from gratitude to the list, and all the individuals involved, that I
am making this concordance available once again. 


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						Technical Notes
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This script is of course designed to run on a UNIX machine, (although I am
sure it can be modified to run on a machine that runs Windows NT), and
merely needs to be made executable (chmod 0755 grep.cgi), and possibly
placed in a directory that contains a server's executable scripts -
usually cgi-bin, though this is system dependant.

The texts it greps are the etexts maintained by Donald Theall at
ftp.trentu.ca, and since he has done an excellent job of keeping the line
and page numbers consistent with the extant print versions of these works
(Finnegans Wake and Ulysses), it should continue to prove useful to
scholars of Joyce everywhere. 

Further revisions are intended, including the addition of other works of Joyce: _Dubliners_, and _Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_, as well as whatever etexts are extant. 

Joyce's tools, like the tools of any writer, were words, and he was truly the master of those tools.  Finding the patterns in his work is a highly rewarding task of Joycean scholarship, and I hope that this concordance will help those engaged in this task.

Thank you,
Michael Hanson										Jackson, Wyoming USA
														June 13, 1998