Written & mounted by Chris Evans, if you want to be kept updated by
Email of changes in this and other psychotherapy resources at this site then Email me at:
C.Evans@sghms.ac.uk.
Mounted 4.iii.96, updated 8.x.96, tweaked 21.vi.97
I will mount pointers to an American location to reduce transAtlantic bandwidth when I can find one. I understand that the snail mail distribution of the program is handled by Kenneth Sewell who did the translation from the Mac to PC and who can be reached at: sewellk@terrill.unt.edu
If you are looking for the latest version by snail mail note that you will have to give Kenneth your snail mail address (!) and that they charge a $10 handling fee payable on receipt and also note that the program is (according to his grad. student who handles the distribution) "shareware", i.e. you should pay them even if you get the software from here.
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 08:57:41 -0500 To: pcp@mailbase.ac.uk From: jadams@spartan.ac.brocku.ca (Jack Adams-Webber) Subject: Re: OMNIGRID info Reply-to: pcp@mailbase.ac.uk Brief update on the Macintosh version of OMNIGRID: 1. It will not work with Hypercard Player (Player does not 'write'; consequently, you will not be able to create new subject cards). 2. If you are using a system more advanced than 7.1, you may need to update your version of Hypercard. 3. Please do not hestitate to report any bugs (preferably by e-mail). Although this is unsupported 'shareware', we might be able to help you sort them out. 4. If it is running OK, and you are getting some use out of it, we should not mind hearing about it. Jack Adams-Webber Tel: 905 (688) 5544 [x 3714] Department of Psychology Fax: 905 (688) 6922 Brock University St. Catharines, Ontario CANADA L2S 3A1 jadams@spartan.ac.brocku.caI have mounted it roughly as it was sent to me, as four binhexed files. With the help of Kit Chung here in the computer unit I have seen it unpacked and running but we neither of us had time to check it out in depth. Looked friendly and impressive for the few bits I saw though! I gather that it is a hypercard stack and that it uses the hypercard program that comes with the Mac OS. Here are the files in the raw (which doesn't seem very helpful under Netscape as it decides just to show me the raw ASCII of the files):
bytes file
515239 OmniGrid Experiment Template.hqx {515kb}
239989 OmniGrid Help.hqx {239kb}
49149 OmniGrid Subject Template.hqx {49kb}
550525 OmniGrid.hqx {550kb}
Whereas this should invoke ftp transfers to your machine
ftp://sun2.sghms.ac.uk/pub/omnigrid/OmniGrid%20Experiment%20Template.hqx ftp://sun2.sghms.ac.uk/pub/omnigrid/OmniGrid%20Help.hqx ftp://sun2.sghms.ac.uk/pub/omnigrid/OmniGrid%20Subject%20Template.hqx ftp://sun2.sghms.ac.uk/pub/omnigrid/OmniGrid.hqxIf you want to avoid those filenames with spaces in them use:
bytes file
515239 OmniETem.hqx {515kb}
239989 OmniHelp.hqx {239kb}
49149 OmniSTem.hqx {49kb}
or ftp:
ftp://sun2.sghms.ac.uk/pub/omnigrid/OmniETem.hqx ftp://sun2.sghms.ac.uk/pub/omnigrid/OmniHelp.hqx ftp://sun2.sghms.ac.uk/pub/omnigrid/OmniSTem.hqxHm, no matter how much I flush the Netscape caches or change the settings for the hqx extension I cannot stop Netscape showing me those on the screen. I suggest that if you have a true ftp program then you point it at:
sun2.sghms.ac.ukand use the usual anonymous login conventions and download the files from:
/pub/omnigrid/I'll just have to hope that you Mac users out there can download these files succesfully and convert them. Best of luck!
Sewell, K.W., Mitterer, J.O., Adams-Webber, J., & Cromwell, R.L. (1991). OMNIGRID-PC: A new development in computerized repertory grids. International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology , 4, 175-192.
Mitterer, J.O. & Adams-Webber, J. (1988). OMNIGRID: A program for the construction, administration and analysis of repertory grids. In J. C. Mancuso & M. L. G. Shaw (Eds.), Cognition and personal structure: Computer access and analysis (pp. 89-103). New York: Praeger.
Mitterer, J. & Adams-Webber, J. (1988). OMNIGRID: A general repertory grid design, administration and analysis program. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 20, 359-360.