Utilities

• ZOO.EXE. DOS executable version of Rahul Dhesi's zoo archive program (this version contains corrections by John Haisken-DeNew concerning the extraction of small files on large hard disks).
• ZOO.MAN. ASCII file containing the documentation for ZOO.EXE.
• booz.tar. Tar file with the source of booz, a small utility to extract files from a zoo archive. Linux users may prefer to download one of the packaged zoo versions from the net.

Editors on Windows Machines

• Kurt Schmidheiny's wintda Freeware. A very simple but useful, fast, and efficient interface to TDA on Windows machines.
• ConTEXT, Freeware, fast and small.
  To access TDA from within ConTEXT, use the settings available in Options -> Environment Options -> Execute Keys (in the german version, this is Einstellungen -> Umgebungseinstellungen -> Benutzerbefehle). The screenshots provide an example of appropriate settings: english or german (start the configuration by pressing Add/Neu). The settings illustrated by the screenshots assume that tda.exe is in your PATH (otherwise, use the full path in the »Execute:« box, e.g. C:\tda\tda.exe), and that your TDA command files have the filename extensions .tda or .cf.
  These settings should provide you with the ability to call TDA with the currently open command file, either by pressing F9 or by choosing TDA from the Tools (Werkzeuge) menu.
• winedt. Shareware ($30). You will want to use Ben Jann's Macros to work with TDA.

Creating TDA Archives, especially for working with the German Socio Economic Panel

• makezooarchive.sh. A bash shell script to create tda archives from SPSS portable files. This version is specially drafted for working with the German Socio Economic Panel.