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_______________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | _______________________________ | | | | T H E O N L I N E B I B L E | | | | VERSION 5.0 | | _______________________________ | | | | | | | | User's Guide | | | | October 1, 1990 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ____________________ | | | | Omnia in Gloriam Dei | | ____________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Copy manual freely | |_______________________________________________________________| ___________________________________ | | | T h e O n l i n e B i b l e | | V e r s i o n 5 . 0 | |-----------------------------------| | T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S | |___________________________________| 1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 Terms of Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 AUTHORISED VERSION NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 COMBINED VERSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4 VERSE NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4.1 Making Notes From Within The Online Bible . . . . . . . . . 3 4.2 Making Notes Outside The Online Bible . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.3 Cross-References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.4 The UED Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.5 Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5 THE GREEK & HEBREW LEXICON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6 WORD PROCESSOR USERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6.1 Online Bible Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6.2 Bible Dictionary of Unique Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 6.3 Copying Text into your Word Processor . . . . . . . . . . . 8 7 VIDEO SETUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 7.1 Screen Colours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 7.2 Screen Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 8 BULLETIN BOARD SUPPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 9 VISUALLY CHALLENGED SUPPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 9.1 Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 10 MAIN MENU OPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 10.1 Main Menu bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 10.2 Sub-Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 10.3 Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 10.4 Scan Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 10.5 Reference Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 10.6 Answering Prompts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 10.7 Terminating an Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 10.8 Foreign Language Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 11 SEARCH FACILITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 11.1 Basic Search Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 11.1.1 Word Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 11.1.2 Phrase Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 11.1.3 Phrase Search With Ambiguous Words . . . . . . . . . . 16 11.1.4 Capitalisation and the Names of God . . . . . . . . . . 16 11.1.5 Advanced Search Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 11.1.6 Order of Evaluation of Operators . . . . . . . . . . . 19 11.2 Setting Search Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 11.3 The SCAN WINDOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 12 DISPLAY FACILITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 12.1 Verse List Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 12.2 Passage Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 12.3 Note Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 12.4 Word Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 12.5 Topic Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 13 PRINT FACILITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 13.1 Submenu Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 13.2 Verse List Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 13.2.1 Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 13.2.2 Sheet Feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 13.2.3 Double Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 13.2.4 Exegesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 13.2.5 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 13.2.6 Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 13.2.7 Print File Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 13.3 Passage Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 13.4 Note Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 13.5 Word Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 13.6 Topic Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 13.7 Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 13.8 Using Output Text With a Word Processor . . . . . . . . . 30 13.9 Quick Print Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 14 THE VERSE LIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 14.1 Get, Sort, and Save Verse List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 14.1.1 Cross References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 15 NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 15.1 Export Note File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 15.2 Export Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 15.3 Update Note File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 15.4 Update Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 16 UTILITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 16.1 Dos Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 16.1.1 Problems: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 16.1.2 How the DOS Gateway Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 16.2 System Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 16.2.1 Upper Window Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 16.2.2 Note Window Row, Note Window Size . . . . . . . . . . . 38 16.2.3 Characters/Line, Lines on Page, Left Margin Size, Top Margin Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 16.2.4 Foreground, Background, Highlight Colour . . . . . . . 41 16.2.5 Scan & Reference Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 16.3 Leaving System Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 16.4 Change Note Prefix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 16.5 Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 17 STARTUP PARAMETERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 17.1 Directory Containing Bible Files (D) . . . . . . . . . . . 43 17.2 Bulletin Board Option (B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 17.3 Screen Bios Option (BI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 17.4 Directory Containing Lexicons (L) . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 17.5 Amount of Memory to Leave Free (M) . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 17.6 Directories Containing Notes (N) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 17.7 Filename for Notes Files (P) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 17.8 Look for Files on Ramdisk (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 17.9 Directories Containing Topics (T) . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 17.10 Visually Challenged Option (V) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 18 USEFUL EDITOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 18.1 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 18.2 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 18.3 Starting Up UED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 18.4 Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 18.5 Screen Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 18.6 The Cursor(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 18.7 Moving the Cursor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 18.8 Entering Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 18.9 Smart Indentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 18.10 Deleting Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 18.11 Other Keys You Should Know About . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 18.12 Main Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 18.12.1 F1 File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 18.12.2 F2 Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 18.12.3 F3 Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 18.12.4 F4 Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 18.12.5 F5 Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 18.12.6 F6 Paste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 18.12.7 F7 DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 18.12.8 F8 Split/Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 18.12.9 F9 Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 18.12.10 F10 Quit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 18.13 Configuring UED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 19 FUTURE PLANS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 20 SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 A P P E N D I X A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Book Name Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 A P P E N D I X B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Software Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Disk Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Using Different Disk Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Mapping Files onto Various Sized Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 A P P E N D I X C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Customisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Replacing The Notes Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Customising The Notes Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 A P P E N D I X D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Change Log for Version 5.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 A P P E N D I X E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Basic Christian Resource Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 SAMPLE BIBLE STUDY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 GOD'S SIMPLE PLAN OF SALVATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 ___________________________________ | | | T H E O N L I N E B I B L E | |-----------------------------------| | VERSION 5.0 | |___________________________________| 1 INTRODUCTION The Online Bible provides the following features to help you in your personal Bible study: 1. VERY FAST: finds any word, set of words, word prefixes, phrases or phrase fragments in the entire Bible - usually in less than two seconds, even on XT-class computers. 2. EASY TO LEARN AND USE: guides you with pull-down menus and extensive context-sensitive help available at all times. 3. FLEXIBLE SEARCHES: lets you refine your search strategy by using AND, OR and NOT operators, and by specifying the sections, books or verses to be searched. 4. FLEXIBLE OUTPUT: sends any part of the Bible directly to your printer, or to a text file compatible with most word processors, desktop publishers etc. Automatically formats exported text into pages, or - if you prefer - leaves that to you. 5. LARGE SCREEN SUPPORT: offers optional displays with more than 25 lines and 80 columns on suitable screens (EGA, VGA etc.) 6. PERSONAL NOTES: lets you create, examine or change your own personal notes for any verse in the Bible. 7. SMALL VERSION: for computers without hard disks, the New Testament version of the Online Bible can run from floppies. 8. GREEK and HEBREW LEXICON: includes a custom lexicon that you can change. 9. STRONG'S NUMBERS: performs word searches using Strong's numbers instead of, or in addition to, English words. 10. CROSS REFERENCES: over 500,000 cross references for the entire Bible. You can add additional ones to your verse notes. 11. TEXT EDITOR: includes a simple, useful text editor (UED) for maintaining verse notes, cross references and lexicon definitions - and any other writing task. Or, if you prefer, lets you use your favourite editor from within the Online Bible. 1.1 Terms of Use The Online Bible is copyrighted by the Brethren assembly, "Woodside Bible Fellowship". The terms of your licence to use the Online Bible are quite simple: 1. You may use the Online Bible for any purpose you wish, as long as you use it for the glory of God. 2. You may not sell the Online Bible, but may distribute it freely to anyone you wish. You do not need our permission to distribute it - just do so. All commercial and retail rights reserved by the author. Those distributing the Online Bible may request a charge not exceeding $5 a disk, to cover costs. If you are a shareware distributor, please send us a letter indicating that you are - 1 - distributing the Online Bible. We require that you distribute only the latest version, otherwise you may not distribute our material. 3. You may not distribute copies of the Online Bible that have been ADDED TO or ALTERED in anyway, without our written permission. When requesting such permission, you must send us a copy of your changes for approval. 4. Only the Authorised text, Greek texts, and related material, may be freely distributed. Some texts like the NIV require a royalty and may not be distributed without a licence from their publisher. Write for volume discounts on our licensed material. See "Appendix B" for more information about distributing the Online Bible. If you find the Online Bible useful, consider making a donation to your favourite evangelical organisation. If you do not have one, please give a gift to the Gideons. And be generous. The development costs of the Online Bible are underwritten by Timnathserah Inc. Please mail any correspondence to: Mr. Larry Pierce Mr. Larry Pierce R. R. 2 Woodside Bible Fellowship West Montrose, Ont. - OR - 200 Barnswallow Dr. CANADA Elmira, Ont., N0B 2V0 CANADA N3B 3K2 You can leave an electronic message at the Christian Distribution Network Bulletin Board, by calling Ray Waldo, CDN 8:7003/1 or FIDO Net 1:394/1 or (504) 578-3023 or call your local CDN to forward a message. Please write us rather than call. Remember the time zones. We encourage you to write, so that we can inform you about updates. In particular we would very much like those of you who have received our lexicon to share your word studies with us, so that we can share them with others. If you have any other problems or suggestions, please contact us. We appreciate your constructive criticism. Thank you for your prayers and letters of encouragement. 2 AUTHORISED VERSION NOTES Version 5.0 has the exact 1769 Authorised Version (AV) text. Sharp Electronics in Japan spent a great deal of money to prove otherwise and failed. They found no errors. Please notify us of any errors you find in the text. We have found that AV Bibles published by the University Printing House in Cambridge, England, are much more accurate than those published elsewhere. Only the Cambridge Bible with "Concord 8vo Bold-Figure refs." in the lower left hand corner of the title page, has the exact 1769 text. If you think you have found an error, check this Cambridge AV Bible. The next most accurate AV Bible has over one hundred errors. The following deviations from the AV text are intentional: 1. Proper names are not hyphenated. This was done to simplify searching for names. Some words still contain hyphens, e.g. God-ward, us-ward, you-ward and so forth. 2. For ease of searching, embedded capitals are not used. The following four words, Eleloheisrael, Meribahkadesh, Aenon and - 2 - Aeneas, should properly be EleloheIsrael, MeribahKadesh, AEnon and AEneas. 3. The first word of each chapter is not in capitals. Only the first letter is capitalised. 4. The paragraph markers used are not from the standard AV Bible. That is because we were unable to find an AV Bible with all the text marked in paragraphs. They stopped after Acts 20. Therefore we used the text divisions found in Matthew Henry's Commentary. 3 COMBINED VERSION The basic text of the AV can be combined with either the NIV text or other texts. We call this the combined version. Suppose you have the AV combined with the NIV text. Using function key F6, you can select for display either the AV text, the NIV text or both texts. If you press F5 to display the Strong's numbers, and display both texts together, you can relate the NIV text to the Strong's numbers through the AV text. You can search for words or phrases in either or both texts. Often a phrase may appear some verses in only one versions. Hence, you find more verses this way. The NIV combined version requires a licence to distribute. Do not share this with your friends. 4 VERSE NOTES The Online Bible lets you add your commentary to any verse in the Bible. When the Online Bible is installed, directories are created on your hard disk to hold your notes on every verse of the Bible. However, no disk space is actually used until you write the notes. 4.1 Making Notes From Within The Online Bible The easiest way to start making Verse Notes is to place the cursor at the beginning of a verse for which you wish to make a note, then press function key F8. This works from either the Scan Window or the Reference Window. (If the verse is not already on the screen, first use the "Display Passage" function from the "Display" pull-down menu to display it.) When you press F8, the Online Bible displays your notes for that verse. If there are notes, an empty window is displayed. Now, press F6 to call up the UED text editor (or your favourite editor, if you have customised this feature - see Appendix C) and loads any existing notes for the current verse into the editor's first workspace, ready for you to edit. Files created by the UED editor are saved in standard ASCII format, with no hidden formatting characters or bits, and with each line ended by both a carriage return and a line feed. Also, UED has been pre-set to start up with Word Wrap turned ON and the right margin set at 65 characters; this ensures that if you print your notes they will fit the page, so do not make the right margin larger than 65 characters. If you substitute another editor for UED, make sure it conforms to these standards. Most editors have a mode called Non-Document, ASCII, DOS Text or Programmer's mode which meets this requirement. If you want your notes to include cross-references to other verses, see "Cross-References" below. The Online Bible provides a special way of doing this, and although it is not mandatory to use it, - 3 - cross-references which follow this method are much more useful because they can be displayed from within the Online Bible. There are no other restrictions on the format of your note files; you are free to lay out the contents of each note any way you like. While making notes on a verse, you will probably find it helpful to be able to see the verse. UED provides a second workspace, into which the Online Bible automatically loads the text of the current verse and the following four verses. The following keystrokes switch between UED's two workspaces: Select 1st. workspace (your notes): F2, Left Cursor, Enter Select 2nd. workspace (verse text): F2, Right Cursor, Enter You can view the verses, as well as copy any portion of them into your personal notes by using UED's Copy function. When you have finished editing your note, press F1 and then S to save the file, then press F10 to exit back to the Online Bible. 4.2 Making Notes Outside The Online Bible It is also possible to create verse note files with any editor which can generate files in standard ASCII format (as described above), with a right margin of 65 characters or less. (Actually, up to 78 characters per line can be displayed in the Notes Window of the Online Bible; but if lines over 65 characters are printed, they will not fit on a standard page.) To incorporate these notes which you have made offline into the Online Bible's Verse Notes: o Save them with filenames such as "ge2.1" for the first verse in the second chapter of Genesis, using the book name abbreviations in Appendix A to form the file names. o Copy these files to the directory which will be the current directory when you are running the Online Bible. Or, use the DOS Gateway while running the Online Bible to make the directory containing these files the current directory. o Then use the "Notes File Update" function from the "Notes" pull-down menu to update the main Notes files with the information written offline. This will not work unless the filenames for those notes conform to the abbreviations in Appendix A. Make sure you have specified the proper location for the Notes (using the n= and p= command line parameters, as described in the section "Startup Parameters"). Otherwise, you may accidentally replace someone else's notes with your own. Function key F8 displays the notes for the verse the cursor is on. If that verse has no notes yet, you will get a blank window with the verse reference at the top. To add notes to that verse, press F6 to enter the UED editor. 4.3 Cross-References The Online Bible comes with over 570,000 cross references. You can add even more. You can include cross references in your notes, topics - 4 - or lexicons entries. All lines containing a cross-reference start with a "#". [NOTE: Some printers, set to print the UK character set may have printed "#" as the pound sign. If this is the case, please read all occurrences of "#" as the hash (noughts and crosses) symbol.] If the cursor is in the Reference Window, you can automatically load all these references into the Scan Window for review using function key F10. If you do not wish the cross references entries to be displayed when you view your notes, use "##" instead of # at the start of the line. Use the "Verse List Print" function from the "Verse List" pull-down menu to print these cross references. The following example shows cross-references for John 1:1. * the beginning # ge 1.1 pr 8.22-31 ep 3.9 col 1.17 # he 1.10,7.3,13.8 re 1.2,8,11,21.6,22.13 * the Word # jno 1.14 1jo 1.1,2,5.7 re 19.13 * with # jno 1.18,16.28,17.5 pr 8.22-30 1jo 1.2 * the Word was # jno 10.30-33 ps 45.6 is 7.14,9.6,40.9-11 # mat 1.23 ro 9.5 phi 2.6 # 1ti 3.16 tit 2.13 he 1.8-13 2pe 1.1 1jo 5.7,20 These references were taken from the book, THE TREASURY OF SCRIPTURE KNOWLEDGE. These cross references will be of the greatest help to expositors, rather than topical preachers. We believe that expositional preaching is more beneficial than topical preaching. If you preach in a topical manner, there will always be topics you will avoid. If you work your way consistently through a book, you will be forced to deal with topics you may not wish to. 4.4 The UED Editor Included with the Online Bible is the text editor UED ("Useful Editor"). It is very powerful for its size, and will run in as little as 36K of free memory. This is the editor that will be used to edit your notes, unless you choose to install a different editor. If you install the lexicon, UED will also be used to alter the lexicon files. 4.5 Topics This version allows you to define up to 32767 different entries for storing information. This data is not related to any one verse. The most common use, would be the storing of topical data. We suggest you use the Thompson Chain Reference Bible as a guide to setting up your topical entries. They have created a number topical index of over 4000 entries. Use topic zero as an index to all your topical entries. You are not restricted to storing topical data. You can store anything you wish. If you are a minister, you may wish to set aside a range of numbers to store your sermon outlines. Like the verse notes, any cross reference data you include can be recalled by pressing F10. - 5 - We are planning to create a sermon organiser using this topic support. This would index sermons by date, place given, text, and any other keyword you wish. This will be available in the spring of 1991. Please send us your creative ideas on using this new feature, so we can share your insights with others. 5 THE GREEK & HEBREW LEXICON All lexicon entries are keyed to Strong's numbers. About 100 years ago, Dr. Strong keyed the English text of the Authorised Version to the Hebrew and Greek language using numbers. If you are not familiar with this, ask your pastor to explain it to you. Strong's scheme is almost universal and is very easy to use. You do not need to know any Hebrew or Greek to use it. The Online Bible's Greek Lexicon was based on Thayer's Lexicon and Smith's Bible Dictionary. Where other sources were used, they are usually noted in the word definition. This lexicon is unique in that you can readily change or add to the definitions. In a real sense this is a "living" lexicon. As you read and find interesting word studies, I hope you will write to us so that we can add them into the lexicon for all to share. Forgive us if we do not acknowledge every letter. Only entries with which we have some concern will be acknowledged; if you do not hear from us, your entry was accepted. Be sure to include the source of your word studies, so that we can give proper credit to the author. We plan, with the Lord's help, to distribute a revised lexicon each fall starting in 1990 - see our product offerings at the end of this documentation. The Hebrew lexicon is based on Brown Driver and Brigg's lexicon with information from Smith's Bible Dictionary. The following is a sample Greek lexicon entry for Strong's number 15: 0015 agathopoieo {ag-ath-op-oy-eh'-o} from 17; TDNT - 1:10,3; vb AV - do good (7) - well doing (2) - do well (2) [11] 1) to do good, do something which profits others 2) to do well, do right At Sparta, the name of the five oldest knights, who went on missions for the state. Each New Testament entry is composed of the following parts. This entry is Strong's number 15, and its transliteration is "agathopoieo". The phonetic for the word is enclosed in curly braces "{ ... }". The next line gives derivation information, Kittel page numbers and the part of speech. This word is derived from word number 17 - although sometimes these comments are just educated guesses. Following the first semi-colon, is the key to Kittel. The first entry is keyed to the ten volume Kittel, giving the volume and page number where this word is found. This entry is found in volume one page ten of the ten volume Kittel and page three of the little Kittel, "The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament" (TDNT). Not all lexicon entries are found in Kittel. Following the second semi-colon is the part of speech. This entry is a verb. - 6 - This word appears in the AV 7 times as "do good", 2 times as "well doing" and 2 times as "do well"- a total of 11 occurrences. These entries are from the "Greek English Concordance" by J.B Smith, and were used by permission of Herald Press (Scottdale, PA). Lastly, are two definitions, and a short word study. The Hebrew and Greek lexicon are very similar in format. The following shows entry for Strong's number 14 from the Hebrew lexicon. 0014 'abah {aw-baw'} a primitive root; TWOT - 3; v 1) to be willing, consent 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be willing 1a2) to consent, yield to, accept 1a3) to desire The Old Testament entries are keyed to the "Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament" (TWOT). This entry is number 3 in TWOT. Only the Greek lexicon has frequency of usage statistics for the AV; the Hebrew lexicon does not have these. For verbs, the Hebrew definitions show the meanings for each Hebrew tense used in the Bible. To display the Strong's numbers as part of the Bible text, press the F5 key when you are in either the Scan Window or the Reference Window. The text will be displayed with the words followed by numbers enclosed within angle braces, like this: <15>. These are the numbers for the original words which were translated into the English words immediately preceding each number. Now that you can display the numbers, you can also access the lexicon for a more detailed explanation of the word represented by the number. Press function key F4 to be prompted for the number of the word you wish to examine. When you enter the number, the definition will appear on the screen. Press function key F1 for an explanation of which keys may be used to manipulate the Lexicon Window. To change the definition or its description, press F6 to enter the text editor. Use this to update the definition with any information you wish. Instead of losing your word studies in your filing cabinet, you can now store them where you can always find them. If you encounter the same word somewhere else in your future studies, your notes on this word are available to assist you. Separate your word studies from the main lexicon entry with a single line of four equal signs, "====". When the new lexicon comes out, the installation procedure preserves your word study material. 6 WORD PROCESSOR USERS 6.1 Online Bible Manual For $5, we will send you the file MANUAL.WP in Word Perfect 5.1 format. The style sheet for the laser printer is called LASER.STY. The one for a plain ASCII printer is called ASCII.STY. Users of Word Perfect will know how to use these. This manual may be freely copied. - 7 - 6.2 Bible Dictionary of Unique Words The file, BIBLE.DCT, has a list of all the words that are in the Authorised Version but not in the Word Perfect 5.1. spelling dictionary. This list is in ASCII format and may be added to most commercial word processor dictionaries. When you place Bible text in your documents, your spell checker will no longer complain about these words. The following procedure installs this dictionary for Word Perfect 5.1. We assumed you did not vary the defaults when you installed Word Perfect and that you installed the Bible in the directory C:\BIBLE. 1. Convert file to Word Perfect format with the following commands. a) Enter command, wp c:\bible\bible.dct b) Press F7 to update file. c) Enter c:\bible\bible.wp, for the filename. d) Type "y" to exit Word Perfect. 2. Use the Spell utility to update the dictionary. a) Type "1" to "Create or Change Dictionary." b) Type "1" to "Create or Change Main Dictionary." c) Press ENTER to accept default dictionary. d) Type "2" to "add words." e) Type "4" to "add words from file." f) Enter filename "c:\bible\bible.wp" g) Type "5" to "exit." h) Type "0" to "exit." Word Perfect now has all the words added to its dictionary and will automatically use these when you spell check your documents. 6.3 Copying Text into your Word Processor This feature will be available for the Spring 1991 update. There was too much to be done to include it in this release. The following information is included for planning purposes only. Use the Terminate-and-Stay-Resident (TSR) provided with the Online Bible to copy text directly into your word processor. Add one of the following commands to your AUTOEXEC.BAT to activate the TSR. $AV - TSR for Authorised Version $AV-NIV - TSR for Combined Authorised and NIV When the installation procedure installs a text module for a version, it also creates a TSR Batch File to help you use it. These batch files have DOS filename that start with a "$" followed by the version name. We suggest that you add to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file the Bible TSR's you wish to use with your word processor. When the TSR starts, it asks you to press a key that will be used to activate the TSR from within your word processor. Avoid any keys that use a function key. Most word processors have used all those combinations. Pick a ALT+letter or CTRL+letter sequence. To copy a Bible passage into your text, press your hot key to start the TSR. A window opens prompting you for the verse range to copy. Specify the range and press ENTER. The window closes and the passage is typed into your word processor for you. - 8 - If you have a combined version, specify which version you wish to use. Type "/av" or "/niv" before you specify the passage. Just that version is copied. If you forget to do this, both versions are copied to your word processor. The following copies John 3 from the NIV into your processor, "/niv jo 3". 7 VIDEO SETUP 7.1 Screen Colours IMPORTANT. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A COLOUR MONITOR DO NOT CHANGE THE ORIGINAL SETTINGS AND PLEASE SKIP THIS SECTION The on-screen colour settings of the Online Bible, as originally shipped, have been carefully adjusted to provide the clearest possible displays on monochrome monitors, including the LCD screens used on laptop computers and VGA monochrome monitors. To change the on-screen colours on a colour monitor, select the "Utilities" option from the Main Menu bar, then select the "Screen Options" function from the "Utilities" pull-down menu. For more details, see "Screen Options" under "Utilities". 7.2 Screen Sizes The Online Bible automatically senses the number of lines on your screen, and adjusts the displays accordingly. Most screens start up in the mode which displays 25 lines of text. However, screens driven by EGA or VGA graphics cards are capable of displaying more than 25 lines, and have built-in support for 43 lines (EGA and VGA) or 50 lines (VGA) of text. Use the following utilities to switch video modes. vga50 - switches VGA cards to display 50 lines of text ega43 - switches EGA cards to display 43 lines of text vga28 - switches VGA cards to display 28 lines of text crt25 - switches EGA or VGA to display 25 lines of text All of the above modes still display the standard 80 characters per line. 8 BULLETIN BOARD SUPPORT Those whose computer does not have a hard disk, or is not IBM-compatible, can still use the Online Bible via modem from any computer bulletin board system that makes the Online Bible available. The screen display is shortened to 24 lines from the normal 25 to permit a status display line for the bulletin board software. To protect the bulletin board system from accidents or deliberate misuse by callers, the system operator should install the Online Bible in the normal way but start it as follows: - 9 - av bb The special startup parameter "BB" makes the Online Bible safe for bulletin board use by preventing any user from either creating files on the host system, or escaping to DOS. If your bulletin board software requires that all programmes must use the BIOS for screen I/O, start the Online Bible this way: av bb bios This forces the Online Bible to write to the screen through the BIOS. The bulletin board option uses the message file MESSAGES.BBV. The ASCII control codes are used instead of the function keys and the special PC keys. A user with a dumb ASCII terminal can access the Online Bible. The special extended ASCII characters are used only on the first screen displayed. To provide the Online Bible on a bulletin board, so its disks can be downloaded, we suggest the following procedure. 1. The bulletin board operator uses PKZIP to create an archive for each disk in the distribution package. 2. Each ZIP file is downloaded and UNZIPPED to a single disk. 3. Do the installation using the installation disk in the normal way. If the time stamps are changed on the Online Bible files, the installation fails. If the files are downloaded using XMODEM, the time stamps are lost and the file sizes changed. Hence, the files must be downloaded in ZIP format. Only the Authorised Version may be distributed in this way. The NIV requires a licence to distribute. 9 VISUALLY CHALLENGED SUPPORT All are visually challenged to some degree. For those who are unable to read the screen displays, devices are now available that can read the screen to you. To make the best use of such devices, the Online Bible offers a "visually challenged" mode of operation. This mode: o suppresses most of the special characters (such as borders) that normally appear on screen displays, so the reading devices do not mistake them for text and try to read them. o displays text in the Scan and Reference Windows one verse at a time, suppressing the context verses so the reading devices do not keep repeating them every time you scroll the window one verse forward. To allow full context, press F10 when you are in the Scan window. Displays in both the Scan and the Reference windows display the verse context. o highlights status information, instead of using inverse video. This seems to be easier for the reading devices to understand. This option has been successfully tested with at least five different screen-readers in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States. As more people use this option, we will get a much better idea of what is required and will refine it to meet the need. To invoke this option specify "VC" on the DOS command line: - 10 - av vc If your screen-reader requires that all output must go through the BIOS, specify that also on the startup line: av vc bios William Elder (132 Greenbrier Lane, Dunbar, West Virgina, 25064) did most of the testing of this new support. He is totally blind. He tried it on the following three device drivers on DOS 3.3 and DOS 4.01: 9.1 Hardware IBM PS/2 Model 30 286 with 30 Meg Hard Disk Speech Synthesiser: Blaize Engineering's Braille and Speak DEVICE MEMORY REQUIRED RATING COST (US $) --------------------- --------------- ------ ----------- Provox Version 3.0 27K 1st $295 (Kansys Inc., 1016 Ohio, Lawrence, KS. 66044 Tel. (913) 842-4016) Verbal Operating System 12K 2nd $350 - 500 Version 5.0 (Computer Conversations, Alexandria, Ohio, 43001) IBM Screen Reader 100K+ 3rd $700 He noted that all of the software drivers he tested gave excellent results. The ratings reflect his personal preferences. He strongly recommends you do NOT use the ANSI.SYS or XMAEM.SYS or Expanded Memory Device drivers. These garble the speech. In Wokingham, England, Carol Pearson successfully tested this on a HAL speech unit with the Mimic voice synthesizer on an Amstrad 1640 computer. The above costs are approximate and may vary with the options chosen. Also, the Provox screen reader is not associated with the Provox (TM) line of industrial controls sold by the Fisher Controls subsidiary of Monsanto Corporation. 10 MAIN MENU OPTIONS The following are sample display screens: - 11 - HORIZONTAL SPLIT Help Search Display Print Verse List Notes Utility Quit ===================== Daniel 3:25 ==================== | 25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, | | walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no | | and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. | | 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the| | burning fiery furnace, [and] spake, and said, | | Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high | | come forth, and come [hither]. Then Shadrach, Meshach| | Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire. | =================================== 0.45 1 / 47 == ====================== John 1:1 ====================== | 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was | | God, and the Word was God. | | 2 The same was in the beginning with God. | | 3 All things were made by him; and without him was | | any thing made that was made. | | 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men| | 5. And the light shineth in darkness; and the | | comprehended it not. | | 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name [was] | ======= Genesis 1:1 - Revelation 22:21 AV/notes ====== VERTICAL SPLIT Help Search Display Print Verse List Notes Utility Quit ======== Daniel 3:25 ======= ========= John 1:1 ======= | 25 He answered and said, | 1. In the beginning was | |Lo, I see four men loose, |Word, and the Word was | |walking in the midst of the|God, and the Word was God | |fire, and they have no hurt| 2 The same was in the | |and the form of the fourth |beginning with God. | |is like the Son of God. | 3 All things were made | | 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar |him; and without him was | |near to the mouth of the |any thing made that was | |burning fiery furnace, |made. | |spake, and said, Shadrach, | 4 In him was life; and | |Meshach, and Abednego, ye |life was the light of men | |servants of the most high | 5. And the light shineth | |God, come forth, and come |darkness; and the darknes | |[hither]. Then Shadrach, |comprehended it not. | |Meshach, and Abednego, came| 6 There was a man sent | |forth of the midst of the |God, whose name [was] John| |fire. | 7 The same came for a | | 27 And the princes, |witness, to bear witness | Genesis 1:1 - Revelation 22:21 AV/notes 0.45 1 / 47 To ensure that this manual can be printed on all printers, the width and height of the sample displays above has been reduced, and the border characters have been altered. - 12 - 10.1 Main Menu bar The Main Menu bar, which runs horizontally across the top of the screen, presents you with eight choices: Help, Search, Display and so on. There are two ways to make a selection from the Main Menu: o Use the Left or Right cursor (arrow) keys; the selected option's name is then displayed in bold type, and a sub-menu appears below it. o Alternatively, pressing the Alt key together with the first letter of any Main Menu choice will always select that option directly, no matter where you are in the Online Bible. 10.2 Sub-Menus The sub-menu below the selected option on the Main Menu bar presents you with a number of functions from which to choose. There are two ways to make a selection from a sub-menu: o Use the Up or Down cursor keys; the selected function's name is then displayed in highlighted video. o Alternatively, pressing the first letter of any function on the sub-menu always selects that function. Once a function has been selected from a sub-menu, pressing Enter invokes that function. 10.3 Help Detailed help in answering every prompt of the Online Bible is available by pressing the F1 key. All help messages can be cleared by pressing any key. 10.4 Scan Window The Scan Window (left or upper window) is used to display verses which contain the words or phrases for which you searched. In the example above, the text for Daniel 3:25 through 3:27 is displayed in the Scan Window. In the frame at the lower right of the Reference Window (or the Scan Window, depending whether the screen is split vertically or horizontally) are three numbers. The first is the time (0.45 seconds) it took the Online Bible to find and display the verses which match your search criteria. The second number (1) indicates which of the matching verses is currently displayed. The last number indicates the number of matching verses (47) that were found; these are now the current "verse list". In other words, you are looking at the first of 47 verses which contain the specific combination of words or phrases for which you searched. 10.5 Reference Window The Reference Window (right or lower window) is used to display a passage you wish to study - in this case, John 1:1 through verse 7. When the paragraph marker character appears after a verse number, this indicates the start of a new paragraph. In the frame at the bottom of this window is the "search range" (Genesis to Revelation), the version - 13 - of the Bible (AV), and the name of the group of files containing your verse notes (notes). 10.6 Answering Prompts When prompted for data, you can use the following keys in preparing your reply. The terms Up, Down, Left, Right refer to the arrow keys used to move the cursor. Note especially that you can recall and edit your previous answers to the same prompt: Up - Recall oldest previous data entry Down - Recall most recent data entry Right - Move cursor one position to right Left - Move cursor one position to left Ctrl-H - Erase character to left BkSp - Erase character to left Tab - Move cursor eight characters to right Shift-Tab - Move cursor eight characters to left Ins - Toggle "insert" editing mode (large cursor indicates insert mode) Del - Delete character to right End - Toggles cursor to either end of line Enter - start processing data Esc - Aborts current operation (see below) F1 - Help Information Ctrl-C, Enter - Aborts any operation (see below) F7 - Enter DOS Gateway (type Exit to return to the Online Bible) The Up and Down cursor keys recall old data only at the search prompts. 10.7 Terminating an Operation Pressing Esc performs an orderly shutdown of the operation currently in progress. This is the preferred way to stop any operation. Ctrl-C followed by Enter will instantly terminate most operations, but should be used only as a last resort. 10.8 Foreign Language Characters Foreign language characters are represented in DOS by 3-digit numeric codes. The character can then be entered on any keyboard, by holding down the Alt key while typing the 3-digit code on the numeric keypad. Do not use the number keys just above QWERTY, as these will not work. When you release the Alt key, that character will appear on the screen. Some laptop computers do not have a separate numeric keypad; but on most laptops, toggling NumLock or holding down a key marked Fn makes the JKL UIO 789 keys work as an "embedded" numeric keypad. - 14 - 11 SEARCH FACILITIES To search for words or phrases, use the right or left cursor keys to select the "Search" submenu. This offers the following three options: Phrase Search Word Search Range for Search Use these options to search for any word, any phrase, or any combination of words or phrases you can imagine. 11.1 Basic Search Methods 11.1.1 Word Search Most of your searches will be for a single word. Select the "Word Search" option and press Enter. A pop-up menu will appear, asking you to enter the desired word. Type the word and press Enter. Try it now: search for the word "Jesus". The Online Bible will find all the verses which contain that word ("matching" verses), and display the first matching verse in the Scan Window (left or upper window). The lower right hand corner of either the Scan Window or the Reference Window (depending on whether the screen is split horizontally or vertically) will then display three numbers. The first number is the time (in seconds) it took the Online Bible to find and display the verses which match your search criteria. The second number indicates which of the matching verses is currently displayed. The third number indicates how many matching verses were found (these verses are the current "Verse List"). In the case of the word "Jesus", you should have found that it occurs in 942 verses in the entire Bible. Now try searching for the word "Christ"; it occurs in 522 verses in the entire Bible. To search for all verses that contain the Hebrew or Greek word represented by a particular Strong's number, specify the Strong's number in the search. For example, to find all verses that contain Strong's Number 4810, specify "4810"; you should find 4 occurrences. Strong's numbers begin at 1 for both the Old and New Testaments. To indicate which set of Strong's numbers you mean, prefix Old Testament numbers with a zero. For example, "014" means an Old Testament word, while "14" means a New Testament word. (To help you remember this, note that the zero resembles the letter "O" in "Old". But do not use the letter "O" itself - that will not work.) Once the Scan Window has been filled with the verses found by the search, you can do various things with the window and the verses in it. See "The Scan Window" at the end of this section. 11.1.2 Phrase Search Some of your searches will be for a particular phrase. Select the "Phrase Search" option and press Enter. A pop-up menu will appear, asking you to enter the desired phrase. Type the phrase and press Enter. Try it now: search for the phrase "Jesus Christ". Watch the numbers closely in the lower right hand corner of the Scan Window. The first number displayed is the search time in seconds, - 15 - followed initially by (in this case) "1 / 256". The Online Bible has already found a number of verses which contain the two words, but not necessarily together or in the right order. As you continue to watch, any verse which does not contain this exact phrase is eliminated from the list, and the final display is "1 / 187". This means that only 187 verses contain this phrase in the entire Bible. As before, you can do various things with the Scan Window and the verses in it. See "The Scan Window" at the end of this section. 11.1.3 Phrase Search With Ambiguous Words Suppose we take the previous example a little further. This time you want to search for all three-word phrases that start with "Jesus" and end with "Christ", but you do not care what word is in the middle. To do this, select "Phrase Search" and tell the Online Bible to search for the phrase "Jesus * Christ". The "*" is an operator which matches ANY word in a phrase search. You will find 3 occurrences of this phrase. Now try "Jesus * * Christ, with any two words between "Jesus" and "Christ. This time you will find three occurrences. The "*" might be called the "ambiguous word operator", because it matches any single word within a phrase. (Experienced DOS users will know that DOS uses the "*" character in a similar way when dealing with filenames: by itself, "*" matches any filename. Your DOS manual calls this the "ambiguous filename" operator, although it is more commonly known as the "wildcard".) Next, suppose you want to find all verses in which the word "Jesus" occurs before the word "Christ", regardless of the number of words in between them. To do this, select "Phrase Search" and tell the Online Bible to search for the phrase "Jesus ... Christ". The "..." is an operator which matches any GROUP of words in a phrase search. This time, you will find 204 occurrences of the phrase. The "..." might be called the "ambiguous phrase operator", because it matches any "phrase within a phrase". Note that only a single word can follow the "..." operator - you cannot follow it with another phrase. As before, the two "ambiguous" operators works only when searching for phrases. They are meaningless in a word search, because a word search takes no account of the order of words in a verse. 11.1.4 Capitalisation and the Names of God With one exception, it does not matter whether you capitalise any letters in your search words. The exception is the Old Testament names of God. The Hebrew Old Testament uses a variety of names for God. Some are single words, while others consist of several words ("compound names"). Perhaps the most important of these words are God's personal name "YHWH" and God's title "Adonai". Most Bibles translate "YHWH" as "LORD" (in capitals), and "Adonai" as "Lord". The AV translates "YHWH" as "Jehovah" in four places. The Online Bible preserves the distinction between "LORD" and "Lord", and "GOD" and "God", because it is very useful in searching for the various compound names of God in the Old Testament. The table on the following page shows all the simple and compound names for God that are used in the Old Testament: - 16 - ENGLISH NAME HEBREW TRANSLITERATION EXAMPLE ---------------- ------------------------ -------- God El, Elah or Elohim Ge. 1:1 Lord Adon or Adonai Ge. 15:2 JAH, LORD YH (contraction of YHWH) Ps. 68:4 LORD YHWH Ge. 2:4 Lord GOD Adonai YHWH Ge. 15:2 LORD God YHWH Elohim Ge. 2:4 LORD of Hosts YHWH Sabaoth 1 Sa. 1:3 LORD JEHOVAH YHWH YH Is. 12:2 Almighty God El Shaddai Ge. 17:1 Everlasting God El Olam Ge. 21:33 Mighty God El Gibbor Is. 9:6-7 Most High or El Elyon Ge. 14:18 Most High God The Scofield Reference Bible contains a good description of the meanings and uses of most of these names, at the references given under "Example" above. A summary reference is given after Malachi 3. 11.1.5 Advanced Search Techniques You can search for much more than simple words or phrases. Several "logic operators" can be used to connect words or phrases together to create more complex searches. These operators are OR, AND, AND NOT, PROXIMITY, PREFIX, and ROOT. 1. The OR operator is the character "|", found near the right side of most keyboards. Use this operator to find verses containing AT LEAST ONE of the connected words or phrases. For example, to find all verses that contain either "Jesus" or "Christ", select "Word Search" and specify the words to be found as "Jesus | Christ" (of course, you do not enter the quotation marks). You should find 1208 verses which contain either the word "Jesus", or the word "Christ", or both words. 2. The AND operator is the character "&" (called "ampersand"), found on the top row of most keyboards (usually Shift-7). Use this operator to find verses containing ALL of the connected words or phrases. For example, to find all verses that contain both "Jesus" and "Christ", select "Word Search" and specify the words to be found as "Jesus & Christ" (again, without the quotation marks). You should find 256 verses which contain both the word "Jesus" and the word "Christ". Since Strong's numbers can be used in searches, they can be used with all the logic operators. For example, to find all verses which contain the Strong's number "501" when it is translated as "draw out", specify "501 & draw out" in a Phrase Search. You will find one verse, John 2:8. 3. The AND NOT operator is the character "~" (called "tilde"), usually found somewhere around the edge of most keyboards. Use this operator to find verses containing one word or phrase, but not another. - 17 - For example, to search for all verses that contain "Jesus" and not "Christ", select "Word Search" and specify the words to be found as "Jesus ~ Christ" (again, without the quotation marks). You should find 686 verses which contain the words "Jesus" without the word "Christ". Next, try specifying "Christ ~ Jesus". You should find 266 verses this time. This operator is most useful for eliminating unwanted verses from a search list. Suppose you want to search for all verses in the Bible that talk about moths. After reading section 5 below about the Prefix Operator, you realise that a search for "moth*" will find all occurrences of either "moth" or "moths". Unfortunately, when you try this you also find all verses containing "mother" and "mothers". To correct this, you can use the AND NOT operator: search for "moth* ~ mother*". This time you will find just eleven verses, all related to moths. This operator can be used repeatedly, to eliminate all unwanted words from the search. For example, to find all the verses that contain the word "God" BY ITSELF in the Old Testament, do a Phrase Search for: God ~ Lord GOD ~ LORD God ~ Almighty God ~ Everlasting God ~ Mighty God ~ Most High The above search specification is too long to show on one line in this manual. However, it must be entered as one line. You can enter search specifications up to 240 characters long. This search will take a few seconds to execute, but illustrates the searching power of the Online Bible. 4. The PROXIMITY operator is the character "@" (called "at"), found on the top row of most keyboards (usually Shift-2), followed by a number between zero and 31102. No space is allowed between the @ and the number. Use this operator to find verses containing words or phrases which occur within a certain number of verses of each other. For example, to search for all verses that contain either "Jesus" or "Christ" within one verse of each other, select "Word Search" and specify the words to be found as "Jesus @1 Christ" (again, without the quotation marks). You will find 349 verses that satisfy this criterion. Now try increasing the number of verses allowed between the verse containing "Jesus" and the verse containing "Christ". The following table summarises the results of using various ranges. SEARCH OPTION NUMBER OF VERSES FOUND --------------------- -------------------------- Jesus @0 Christ 256 (Same as AND operator) Jesus @1 Christ 349 Jesus @2 Christ 416 Jesus @3 Christ 462 Jesus @4 Christ 502 Jesus @31102 Christ 1208 (Same as OR operator) As you can see, the PROXIMITY operator produces results that lie somewhere between the two extremes of the all-inclusive OR operator and the highly exclusive AND operator. It is like a weaker form of these two operators. - 18 - 5. The PREFIX operator is the character "*" (called "asterisk"), found on the top row of most keyboards (usually Shift-8), and also on same key as PrtSc on many keyboards. Add this modifier to the end of a partial word (a "prefix") to match any word which begins with that prefix. (Experienced DOS users will know that DOS uses the "*" character in a similar way when dealing with filenames: with a prefix, "*" matches any filename that starts with that prefix. This is commonly known as the "wildcard".) This operator is really useful for handling the various spellings of words and their variations. For example, suppose you were doing a study on divorce, and wanted to find all references to "divorce" or "putting away". You realise that these words can take different forms: "divorce, divorced, divorcing" and "putting away, put away, puts away" are a few examples of the variations you might want to find. To do this, select "Phrase Search" and specify the phrases to be found as "divorc* | put* away". You should find 63 verses that satisfy this search criterion. As you view these verses, you can discard any that you do not need from the current Verse List by pressing the "Del" key. In my own study of this topic, I kept only 24 of the verses. You would have a different number, depending how you decided which ones to keep. The important point is that you can use the Online Bible's powerful and flexible search facilities to find verses of potential interest, then use its manual operations to complete the task. 6. The ROOT operator is also the keyboard symbol "*". Add this modifier to the START of a partial word (a "root") to match any word which contains that root anywhere within the word. This operation can take some time depending on the type of computer - up to one minute on the old "XT" model. For example, to find all verses that contain words with the character sequence "veng", enter "*veng". You will find 96 verses. 7. The NULL operator is not a character you can type, but nevertheless it exists. When two words are adjacent in your specification for a phrase search, with no other operator in between them, they are said to be joined by the NULL operator. This works like a high priority AND operator; in a Phrase Search, it indicates that the words it joins together must be present in the verse and adjacent to one another. In a Word Search, it indicates that the words must be present in the verse, but not necessarily adjacent. Consider the following word search specification: God love* | Jesus Lord This will find any verse containing the word "God", together with EITHER any word starting with "love" OR both of the words "Jesus" and "Lord". You should find 257 verses. 11.1.6 Order of Evaluation of Operators You can use the above operators more than once in a search specification. As you type the specification, it will scroll to the left if it does not all fit on the screen. The maximum length of a specification is 240 characters. - 19 - If several operators are used, operators of higher priority are evaluated first; operators of the same priority are evaluated from left to right. The order of priority is: ORDER OPERATOR SYMBOL ----- --------------------------- ---------- First PREFIX,ROOT * Then NULL (none) Last OR, AND, AND NOT, PROXIMITY |, &, ~, @ Unlike some computer programming languages, it is not possible to use brackets to change the order of evaluation. In practice, this will not be much of a restriction. Difficult combination searches can be performed in several stages, with the results of one search being saved as a Verse List and the next search being applied to that Verse List rather than to the entire Bible. This will achieve the same result as the use of brackets. 11.2 Setting Search Ranges Often you want to search just a portion of the Bible. Select the "Range For Search" option and press Enter. A pop-up menu will appear, asking you to enter the desired range. Type the desired range and press Enter. The current range is shown at the bottom of the Scan Window. To select the range, specify the first and last verses in the range to be searched, separated by a "-". The following examples make this clear: - 20 - TO SEARCH: | SPECIFICATION: | SELECTS THIS RANGE: =================|=================|==================== A single verse | Jo 3:16 | John 3:16 -----------------|-----------------|-------------------- A single chapter | Ps 90 | the 90th Psalm -----------------|-----------------|-------------------- A single book | Jude | the book of Jude -----------------|-----------------|-------------------- From one book | 1Jo - 3Jo | from 1 John to to another | | the end of 3 John -----------------|-----------------|-------------------- A range of | john 21 - act 2 | from John 21 to chapters | | the end of Acts 2 | | | Ps 1 - 5 | the first | | five Psalms -----------------|-----------------|-------------------- Everything | ex 1:1 - 1:10 | between Exodus 1:1 between | | and Exodus 1:10 two references | | | ex 1:1 - Ru 1:10| between Exodus 1:1 | | and Ruth 1:10 -----------------|-----------------|-------------------- The entire Bible | bible | Genesis 1:1 to | | Revelation 22:21 -----------------|-----------------|-------------------- The Old Testament| ot | Genesis 1:1 to | | Malachi 4:6 -----------------|-----------------|-------------------- The New Testament| nt | Matthew 1:1 to | | Revelation 22:21 ------------------------------------------------------- Book name abbreviations can be used. Usually the first three characters uniquely identify most books except for "Jude" (enter "J") and "Philippians" (enter "Php"). See Appendix A for a list of all the abbreviations and book names recognised by the Online Bible. 11.3 The SCAN WINDOW You can use the following keys to manipulate the Scan Window (the terms Up, Down, Left, Right refer to the arrow keys used to move the cursor): 1. MANIPULATE SCAN WINDOW Up - Scroll window to see previous verse in context. Down - Scroll window to see next verse in context. PgUp - back up 5 verses in context and redisplay PgDn - Skip to next page of verses and display. Ctrl-PgUp - Start of current or - 21 - previous chapter Ctrl-PgDn - Start of next chapter 2. MANIPULATE VERSE LIST Enter - Display next verse reference in list Right - Display next verse reference in list Left - Display previous verse reference in list Backspace - Display previous verse reference in list Ctrl-H - Display previous verse reference in list Ctrl-Right - Skip forward 5 verses and display list Ctrl-Left - Skip back 5 verses and display list Del - Delete selected verse reference from list End - Display last entry in list 3. MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS Tab - Toggle between Scan and Reference Windows Shift-Tab - Copy Scan Window to Reference Window for reference Esc - Return to either Scan or Reference Window, or from there to Main Menu Home - Bible Study Aid 4. FUNCTION KEY SUMMARY F1 - Help F2 - Save current verse in Verse List File F3 - Prompt for a text to display in Reference Window F4 - Prompt for a Strong's Number F5 - Toggle display of Strong's numbers in text F6 - Select Bible Version F7 - DOS Gateway F8 - Display Notes for current verse F9 - Print Current Verse F10 - Toggle display of verses in or out of context Ctrl-T - Toggle translation footnote display Only the NIV has footnotes. There are no translation notes in the AV, so Ctrl-T will do nothing. - 22 - 12 DISPLAY FACILITIES To display verses or a passage, use the left or right arrow keys to select the "Display" pull-down menu. This menu offers four options: Verses List Display Passage Display Note Display Word Definition Topic Display Use these options to display selected verses or a particular passage, review your notes about a verse, or look up the definition of any word which has a Strong's number. 12.1 Verse List Display Use this option to review: o verses previously selected using the "Search" function, o verses retrieved using the "Get Verse List" function. The bottom right corner of the screen shows where you are, relative to the end of the current list. Use the same keys as used when searching for verses, as follows (the terms Up, Down, Left, Right refer to the arrow keys used to move the cursor): Function keys and other dedicated keys can be used as described. 1. MANIPULATE SCAN WINDOW Up - Scroll window to see previous verse in context Down - Scroll window to see next verse in context PgUp - Back up 5 verses in context and redisplay PgDn - Skip to next page of verses and display Ctrl-PgUp - Start of current or previous chapter Ctrl-PgDn - Start of next chapter 2. MANIPULATE VERSE LIST Enter - Display next verse in list Right - Display next verse in list Left - Display previous verse in list Backspace - Display previous verse in list Ctrl-H - Display previous verse in list Ctrl-Right - Skip forward 5 verses and display Ctrl-Left - Skip back 5 verses and display Del - Delete current verse from list End - Display last entry in list 3. MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS Tab - Toggle between Scan and Reference Windows Shift-Tab - Copy Scan Window to Reference Window for reference Esc - Return to Scan or Reference Window, or - 23 - from there to Main Menu Home - Bible Stuty Aid 4. FUNCTION KEY SUMMARY F1 - Help F2 - Save current verse in Verse List File F3 - Prompt for a text to display in Reference Window F4 - Prompt for a Strong's Number F5 - Toggle display of Strong's numbers in text F6 - Select Bible Version F7 - DOS Gateway F8 - Display Notes for current verse F9 - Print Current Verse F10 - Toggle display of verses in or out of context Ctrl-T - Toggle display of translation footnotes If you are displaying a list of verses and then stop to use some other function, when you return to displaying verses you will continue exactly where you left off in the list. Currently, there are no translation notes in the AV, so Ctrl-T will do nothing. 12.2 Passage Display Use this option to examine any desired passage of the text, which will be displayed in the Reference Window. You will be prompted for the verse references; type these in the usual way, as described elsewhere in this manual. Use the following keys to manipulate the text in the Reference Window: 1. MANIPULATE REFERENCE WINDOW Up - Scroll window to see previous verse in context. Down - Scroll window to see next verse in context. PgUp - Back up 5 verses in context and redisplay PgDn - Skip to next page of verses and display. Ctrl-Right - Skip forward 5 verses and display Ctrl-Left - Skip back 5 verses and display 2. MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS Enter - Display next verse in list Tab - Toggle between Reference and Scan Windows Shift-Tab - Copy passage in Reference Window to Scan Window Esc - Return to Scan or Reference Window, or from there to Main Menu Home - Bible Study Aid - 24 - 3. FUNCTION KEY SUMMARY F1 - Help F2 - Save current verse in Verse List File F3 - Prompt for a text to display in Reference Window F4 - Prompt for a Strong's Number F5 - Toggle display of Strong's numbers in text F6 - Select Bible Version F7 - DOS Gateway F8 - Display Notes for current verse F9 - Print Current Verse F10 - Load Cross References from Notes Ctrl-T - Toggle display of translation footnotes Currently, there are no translation notes in the AV, so Ctrl-T does nothing. 12.3 Note Display Use this option to display your verse notes. You are prompted for the verse reference; type this in the usual way, as described elsewhere in this manual. A pop-up Note Window fills the screen, and the text of your notes appears in this window. Use the following keys to manipulate the text in the Note Window: Enter - Display next page of verse note PgDn - Display next page of verse note PgUp - Display previous page of verse note Down - Display next part of verse note Up - Display previous part of verse note Right - Display note for next verse Left - Display note for previous verse Backspace - Display note for previous verse Ctrl-H - Display note for previous verse F1 - Help Information F3 - Prompt for text to display in reference window F4 - Prompt for Strong's number F5 - Prompt for topic number F6 - Edit text in window F7 - DOS Gateway F8 - Prompt for note to display F9 - Print text in window F10 - Load cross references into the scan window Esc - Return to Scan or Reference Window, or from there to the Main Menu Pressing ENTER at the end of your notes ends the note display. 12.4 Word Definition Use this option to display the definition for any word which has a Strong's number. You are prompted for the Strong's number. When you - 25 - enter it, a pop-up window fills the screen and the text of the definition appears in this window. 12.5 Topic Entry Use this option to display your entry for a particular topic. When you enter it, a pop-up window fills the screen and the text of the topic appears in the window. Topics are numbered from zero to 32,767. We suggest you use topic zero as a table of contents for your topics. Use the Thompson Chain Reference Bible topics for the numbers one through 5,000. Please reserve topics 5,001 to 9,999 for future use. Use the remaining topical entries any way you please. 13 PRINT FACILITIES The "Print" submenu offers the following four options: Verse List Print Passage Print Note Print Word Definition Topic Print Use these options to print any verses, passage, notes for a passage or lexicon definition. The output can be neatly formatted for immediate use, or can be left unformatted for you to load into a word processor. If you print directly to a printer, make sure it is: o switched on o set for 6 lines per inch (most printers start up like this) o positioned at the top of a page o ready to print (called "ready", "on line", "selected" etc.) 13.1 Submenu Operation From the "Print" submenu, use the Up and Down cursor keys to move between the options available. Press Enter to select the desired option. For each option, there is a pop-up submenu with further questions. Use the Up and Down cursor keys to move between questions. o Some of these questions ask you for a heading, filename, etc. Type your answer and press Enter when complete. o Other questions require a "Yes" or "No" answer. Use the left or right cursor keys to toggle the answer between "Yes" and "No" (typing "Yes", "NO", "y" etc. will not work). Do NOT press Enter yet. o When ALL questions have been answered correctly, place the cursor on any of the "Yes/No" questions and press Enter. The print option you chose will then be performed, using the answers you supplied. 13.2 Verse List Print These verses can have been selected as a result of a search query, or via the "Get Verse List" function. This option presents you with a - 26 - pop-up menu containing seven options that control the printing of the verses: 13.2.1 Format The first option asks whether to "Format" the text. The left or right cursor keys toggle between "Yes" and "No". If you want to send the verses to a file which will then be loaded into a word processor, you probably do NOT want formatted output. That is, you do not want page breaks, titles, and other formatting information, so answer "No" to this question. If you specify unformatted output for a passage, each verse will be a single text line ending with the standard DOS sequence of two special characters: "carriage return" and "line feed". If you specify unformatted output for a list of verses, only the last verse in each group of consecutive verses will end with the standard carriage return / line feed sequence. If you try to print these unformatted files directly, the result will be a mess. They must be reformatted by your word processor to be useful. Most word processors recognise the carriage return / line feed sequence as the division between paragraphs. So load the file into your word processor and set the left and right margins, page length, font etc. as you prefer; then give the command to reformat the entire document to match those settings. (Some word processors have no single command to reformat the entire text; if that is the case, scroll through the file, reformatting each line or paragraph as you come to it). However, if you are satisfied with the Online Bible's standard output format, answer "Yes" to this question. The output will then be formatted into paragraphs and pages in a layout readily printable on almost all printers. 13.2.2 Sheet Feed The second option is "Sheet Feed". The left or right cursor keys toggle between "Yes" and "No". If you want to feed paper into your printer one sheet at a time, answer "Yes" to this question. If you specify that you want unformatted output, the "Sheet Feed" setting will be ignored because unformatted output should not be printed directly, but must be sent to a disk file for use by a word processor. 13.2.3 Double Space The third option is "Double Space". The left or right cursor keys toggle between "Yes" and "No". If you answer "Yes" to this question, the output will have a blank line between each line of the passage. This gives you room to make notes on the page. Again, if you specify unformatted output this setting will be ignored. 13.2.4 Exegesis The fourth option is "Exegesis". The left or right cursor keys toggle between "Yes" and "No". - 27 - Use the exegesis option to select and print all the original language definitions for the words used in the passage. The passage will be printed with Strong's numbers after each word. The definitions will follow after the last verse. 13.2.5 Notes The fifth option is "Notes". The left or right cursor keys toggle between "Yes" and "No". Use the notes option to include your verse notes after each verse. 13.2.6 Title The sixth option is "Title". Use this to specify a title of up to fifty characters to be printed at the top of each page of output. Again, if you specify unformatted output this setting will be ignored. 13.2.7 Print File Name The seventh option is "Print File Name". The left or right cursor keys toggle between "Yes" and "No". The "Print File Name" option prompts you for the DOS file name to be used for the output file. You can specify any valid DOS drive, path and file name such as C:\SERMONS\1990\YOUTH.MTG If you do not specify a file name, the output will be sent to your printer. (Technically, it is sent to the DOS device "PRN", which is normally the printer.) 13.3 Passage Print The "Passage Print" option is very similar to the "Verse List Print" option, with one additional prompt, "Print Verse Range". Specify the first and last verses in the range to be printed, separated by a "-". For example: - 28 - TO PRINT: | SPECIFICATION: | PRINTS: =================|=================|==================== A single verse | Jo 3:16 | John 3:16 -----------------|-----------------|-------------------- A single chapter | Ps 90 | the 90th Psalm -----------------|-----------------|-------------------- A single book | Jude | the book of Jude -----------------|-----------------|-------------------- From one book | 1Jo - 3Jo | from 1 John to to another | | the end of 3 John -----------------|-----------------|-------------------- A range of | john 21 - acts 2| from John 21 to chapters | | the end of Acts 2 | | | Ps 1 - 5 | the first | | five Psalms -----------------|-----------------|-------------------- Everything | ex 1:1 - 1:10 | between Exodus 1:1 between | | and Exodus 1:10 two references | | | ex 1:1 - Ru 1:10| between Exodus 1:1 | | and Ruth 1:10 -------------------------------------------------------- The "Passage Print" option also offers two features you may find interesting. We call them "debugging" features, because we use them to verify that the Online Bible operates correctly and that the text you receive is a faithful copy of what we originally entered. o If you specify the title "/tokens" , the unique words found in the Bible will be written to the output file, together with the approximate verse count for each word. o If you specify the title "/books" for the passage and specify a range of books to be exported, the entire text of those books will be written to disk in the same format that we originally entered it. A separate file will be created in the current directory for each book, so you may want to create an empty directory and make that the current directory before operating this feature. You can do this before you start the Online Bible, or from within the Online Bible by using the DOS Gateway. If you specify the range as "gen - rev" you will export the entire text of the Bible. This will take at least 30 minutes; make sure you have plenty of space on your drive before you start. 13.4 Note Print This option is similar to "Passage Print", except that only the notes for the verses in the passage are printed - not the verses themselves. 13.5 Word Definition Use this option to select and print the definition of a single word from the lexicon by giving its Strong's number. Strong's numbers begin at 1 for both the Old and New Testaments. To indicate which set of - 29 - Strong's numbers you mean, prefix Old Testament numbers with a zero. For example, "014" means an Old Testament word, while "14" means a New Testament word. To help you remember this, note that the zero resembles the letter "O" in "Old". But do not use the letter "O" itself - that will not work. 13.6 Topic Print This option is similar to the "Word Definition". You specify the number of the topic you wish to print. 13.7 Printing To start printing, make sure the printer is switched on and ready, place the cursor on any of the "Yes/No" questions, and press Enter. If the printer is not ready, DOS can give you the message "Abort, Retry, or Cancel". If you "Abort" or "Cancel", the Online Bible will stop and you will lose whatever work you were doing. "Retry" can be safer, but will interfere with the screen menu displays. The lower right hand corner of the frame of either the Scan Window or the Reference Window (depending whether the screen is split vertically or horizontally) displays the number of verses already printed, and the total number to be printed. Press ESC at any time to interrupt and terminate the printing before it finished. Note that all printers have a buffer (a memory to hold characters that have been received but not yet printed), and the Online Bible itself also buffers up to 4000 characters of text before sending it to the printer. Therefore your printer can continue to print for some time after the Online Bible has stopped generating text. 13.8 Using Output Text With a Word Processor If you will be incorporating much of the Bible into your documents, you may prefer to transfer all of the desired passages to text files in advance. You might, for example, put text files of all the Pauline epistles in one subdirectory, all the Gospels in another, and so forth. Then, when you need to import a passage from the Bible into your document: o If your word processor can work on more than one document at a time, you can open the text file containing the desired Bible passage as the second document, mark the part you need, and transfer it to the document you are writing. o If your word processor works on only one document at a time, you can import the whole of the Bible passage into your document, then delete the parts you do not need. Depending on your computer equipment, the other programmes you own, and your level of computer experience, there are at least four other ways to use the Online Bible with some word processors: o You can use the Online Bible TSR to copy Bible passages to your word processor while you are in your word processor. (Available Spring /91). - 30 - o You may have a memory-resident utility such as SideKick (tm), which can load Bible passages from the Online Bible into memory, then copy portions of them into your word processor. o Your word processor may have a DOS Gateway through which you can temporarily load the Online Bible without first having to close the document you are writing. o Your computer may be able to run a multi-tasking operating system, allowing you to run more than one programme at a time - such as the Online Bible and your word processor. o Use the Quick Print facility to capture your data into a file and then process the data with your word processor. 13.9 Quick Print Facility Use F9 to copy verses, notes, topics or lexicon entries to a printer or a file. To print out the current verse you are looking at, press F9. To print a topic, note or lexicon entry, display that entry in your notes window. Press F9 to print the data. The first time you press F9, you are asked what file to use to hold the data. If you do not change the file name from PRN, the data is printed. If you specify a file name, the data is appended to the end of that file each time you press F9. The UED editor is called to allow you to edit the data. You can continue adding your commentary or press F10 to return to the Online Bible. This is method allows you to easily add definitions, verses, topics or note data to your material. You can edit the data using UED or just use the F9 key to accumulate all the material you need, then edit the file using your word processor. Consider the following study on John 1:1. We shall build a file containing John 1:1, with our verse notes and a lexicon entry for Strong's No. 3056, "logos". Then, we shall use Word Perfect to complete the job. 1. Start up the Online Bible and press ENTER to select "Phrase Search". 2. Press "Right Arrow", "Down Arrow" to select "Passage Display" and press ENTER. 3. At the verse prompt, enter "john 1:1" and press ENTER. John 1 is displayed in the right window. 4. Press F9 to select current verse. 5. At the prompt, enter the file name "Study" and press ENTER. 6. UED is activated with John 1:1 in the top window. Press F10 to exit back to the Online Bible. 7. Press F8 to display a previously entered verse note for John 1:1. 8. Press F9, to add the verse note to your study. Press F10 to exit to the Online Bible and press ESC to exit the note display. 9. Press F5 to turn on Strong's numbers. 10. Press F4 to enter your number. Enter 3056 for the word "logos" and press ENTER. Your notes window displays the lexicon definition. 11. Press F9 to add definition to your study, and F10 to return to the Online Bible. 12. Press ALT+Q to return to DOS. The file "Study" now exists in your current directory. 13. Type "WP" at the DOS prompt to use Word Perfect. 14. Alter your margins by pressing, "Shift F8", "L", "7", "0", ENTER, "0", ENTER, ENTER, ENTER. 15. Retrieve the file by pressing, "Control F5", "1", "2". - 31 - 16. Entry your file name "Study" and press ENTER. Word Perfect displays your file so you may edit it. You can also store the file STUDY in your topics files. Suppose you want to save it under topic 9538. Do the following after step 11 in the above. 1. Press F7 to escape to DOS. 2. Rename file to T09538 using DOS command, "ren study t09538". 3. Type EXIT to return to the Online Bible. 4. Type ALT+N to select Notes Window. 5. Press "Down Arrow" twice, and ENTER twice. 6. Type "# 9538" for the verse reference and press ENTER. The data is copied to the topic number 9538 for you. 14 THE VERSE LIST Use the Verse List feature to select, save and recall lists of verses according to your criteria. Here are some typical uses of the Verse List facility: 1. While you are scanning through a list of verses, you can save not only the selected verses, but also some of the context for each verse. 2. When you are preparing a Bible study, you can print all the verses you will be referring to in the study. This prevents the interruption of looking up verses individually when needed. 3. While you are studying one topic, if you come across some interesting but completely unrelated verses, you can save them for future study without interrupting your present study. 4. You can add your cross references to the Notes file for a particular verse. The Verse List facility makes all of these tasks very easy. This section explains how to use it. Whenever verses are displayed in the Scan Window (upper or left window) or Reference Window (lower or right window), pressing function key F2 will add to the current Verse List the reference - not the text. - for the verse displayed at the top of the current window (whichever window has the cursor in it). The Verse List is always saved in a file. If you do not enter a name for this file, the Verse List will be saved in the file VERSES.LST. However, if you supply a different filename, the Verse List will be saved there. Each time you add a verse reference to the Verse List, you will be asked whether this reference should be added to the existing Verse List. Normally you will want to do this, so answer "yes". However, if you want to erase all existing verse references from the list and start over, answer "no" to this question; to toggle the answer between "yes" and "no", press the left or right cursor keys. (You will not be asked this question if this is the first reference being added to a new Verse List). - 32 - The up and down cursor keys scroll the text in the current window one verse at a time, so you can press F2 repeatedly to save the verses before and after any desired verse (its context). Another way to build a Verse List is to use the Phrase Search or Word Search functions. When the matching verses have been found, select the Verse List option from the Main Menu bar, and use the "Save Verse List" function on the pull-down submenu. This will save the references of all verses found by your search. As before, you will be asked whether these references should be added to the existing Verse List, and if you answer "no", all existing verse references will be erased from the list. The third way to build a Verse List is simply to type it, using your favourite text editor. The format to be followed is quite simple. Suppose you wanted to include the following five verses in your list: 1 Pe 5:6, John 1:1, John 1:2, John 1:3, Matthew 20:10 Your file would look like this: * verse list for my sermon Sun 1990-02-18 # 1Pe 5:6 jo 1:1-3 mt 20.20 Blank spaces at the left end of any line are ignored by the Online Bible. The ":" and the "." are treated as the same character. Also, any line with a "*" as the first non-blank character is ignored entirely. Together, these features make it possible to include in the file information useful to yourself. You can add comment lines, indent groups of lines, and so on. A line containing a list of verse references must have a "#" as the first non-blank character. Use the abbreviations listed in Appendix A for the books of the Bible. Note how the list can be shortened by using "-" to indicate a range of verses. Use the methods of indicating ranges described under "Print Facilities". The list can be laid out in any pattern you choose - nothing has to be in fixed columns or positions. So the same file could be laid out this way: * verses for my sermon Sun February 2, 1990 * main point # 1Pe 5:6 * subsidiary points # jo 1:1-3 * conclusion # mt 20.20 If you create a Verse List file with a word processor, remember to use the mode (sometimes called Non-Document, ASCII, DOS Text or Programmer's mode) which does not add hidden formatting characters or bits, since these will not be ignored by the Online Bible and will cause problems. If you are not sure whether your file is in the correct format, display it on the screen by using the DOS command "Type". If it does not look exactly the way you typed it, the file format is wrong. You will have to read the manual for your word processor to find out if it can "convert" or "export" the file to an ASCII file format. - 33 - If you use the UED editor supplied with the Online Bible, the file format will always be correct. 14.1 Get, Sort, and Save Verse List To sort the references in a Verse List file into Bible order. Use the "Get Verse List" function to retrieve the Verse List. Select the "Sort Verse List" function to sort the references into Bible order; this also eliminates any duplicate references. Finally, select the "Save Verse List" function to replace your old Verse List file with the sorted version. If you want to review the verses in a previously-saved Verse List, use the "Get Verse List" function to retrieve the Verse List file. Next, go to the "Display" pull-down menu and use the "Verse List Display" function to review the Verse List. Delete any unwanted verse references from the Verse List. Finally, return to the "Verse List" pull-down menu and use the "Save Verse List" function to save the updated verse list. 14.1.1 Cross References To save a list of verses as cross references for another verse, use the "Save Verse List" function. When prompted for the name of the Verse List file, do not give a filename but instead give a verse reference preceded by a "#" character. For example: # john 1:1 This saves the current Verse List in your Notes files, just ahead of your notes for John 1:1. To use these cross references later, display John 1:1 in the Reference Window (lower or right window) and press F10. Your cross references for John 1:1 will be loaded into the Scan Window (upper or left window) for you to review. 15 NOTES You can change your verse notes or lexicon definitions in several ways; one should prove comfortable to you. 1. You can change them while using the Online Bible: press function key F6 to change the lexicon definitions, or F9 to change the notes for the current verse. You will be using the UED editor to make the changes - or your editor, if you installed it in place of UED (see Appendix A). 2. The Notes option on the Main Menu bar lets you copy definitions or notes into a text file in DOS's current directory. You can change this file outside the Online Bible, then use it later from within the Online Bible to update your lexicon or notes. 3. Finally, if you use a "resident" editor (like SideKick or Metro), you can pop up that editor to edit and save the text file made in (2) without leaving the Online Bible. Before you use the Notes option, set DOS's "current directory" to the directory where you would like to place the exported file. Use the - 34 - DOS gateway (F7, or D from the Utilities option on the Main Menu bar) to obtain the DOS prompt without exiting the Online Bible. Next, if the desired directory already exists, type CD followed by the correct directory name. (If the directory does not exist yet, use MD instead of CD; this will create it). Finally, type Exit and press Enter to close the DOS Gateway and return to the Online Bible. Now select the Notes option from the Main Menu bar. The Notes sub-menu offers four functions: Export Note File Definition Export Note File Update Update Definition Use the Export functions to create the external text file for you to change. If you edit this file with a word processor, remember to use the mode (sometimes called Non-Document, ASCII, DOS Text or Programmer's mode) which does not add hidden formatting characters or bits, since these will affect the Online Bible's screen displays and printouts. Also, do not let the lines get longer than 65 characters, or they may be too long to print from within the Online Bible. When you have finished changing this file, use the Update functions to replace your verse notes or lexicon with the changes you have made. 15.1 Export Note File You will be prompted for a verse reference. You can specify a single verse or a range of verses, for example: mat 7.9 rom 12.1 - rom 12.6 The Online Bible will locate your verse notes for that reference and create a file for them in your current directory. The file names for the notes defined above would be: mat7.9 rom12.1 rom12.2 rom12.3 rom12.4 rom12.5 rom12.6 where the file name is the book abbreviation plus the chapter number, and the file extension is the verse number. This function can also be used to export topic data. To export the topic 9538 specify the following for the verse prompt. # 9538 This creates a file T09538 on your current directory. 15.2 Export Definition You will be prompted for a Strong's number. You indicate whether it is an Old or New Testament number by prefixing OT numbers with a leading zero, for example: 57 is New Testament word number 57 - 35 - 0897 is Old Testament word number 897 The Online Bible will verify the number and create a file in your current directory containing the definition for that word. The file names for the words defined above would be: G00057 H00897 where "G" indicates the definition of a Greek word, and "H" indicates the definition of a Hebrew word. 15.3 Update Note File You will be prompted for a verse reference. The Online Bible will look in the current directory for the corresponding file, and will replace your verse notes with the updated notes. You can specify a range of notes to be updated, for example: rom 12.1 - rom 12.6 You can use this function to update your topics. To update topic 9538, create the file T09538 on your current directory. The "T" is followed by five digits. Pad the number with leading zeros. Specify the following at the verse prompt. # 9538 The data in file T09538 is copied to your topic files and stored under entry 9538. 15.4 Update Definition You will be prompted for a Strong's number. The Online Bible will look in the current directory for the corresponding file, and will replace the definition with the updated definition. 16 UTILITIES When you select the Utilities option from the Main Menu bar, the Utilities sub-menu offers three functions: DOS Gateway System Options Change Note Prefix 16.1 Dos Gateway Rather than try to duplicate the commands of DOS (COPY, DEL, CD, CHKDSK and so on) from within the Online Bible, we have chosen to make MD-DOS itself available without you having to leave the Online Bible. We call this the DOS Gateway. When you select the DOS Gateway, the "system prompt" will appear. This prompt will be something like C:\>, C:\BIBLE>, D:>, etc., and is the normal way DOS prompts you to give it a command. (If you have never seen anything like this before, the person who originally set up - 36 - your computer has probably hidden this level of operation from you. Ask that person to show you what to do next, or study your DOS manual.) Once the system prompt appears, you can give any DOS command, or even run another programme. When you finish using the DOS Gateway, return to the system prompt and give the command "Exit". You will instantly be back in the Online Bible exactly where you left it. The only difference you may discover when using the DOS Gateway is that there is less memory than usual for running programme. This is because the Online Bible is still occupying part of the memory. This is discussed further under "Problems" below. You can press F7 to enter the DOS gateway, even when entering a line of text. 16.1.1 Problems: If the DOS Gateway does not work properly, there are several things you should look for. o The file containing the DOS command interpreter (COMMAND.COM) must be present in one of the directories named in the DOS "path". To see the current path - if one exists - type either PATH or SET at the system prompt. Usually, this "path" is defined in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file on the startup drive ("boot drive"). See "PATH" in your DOS manual for more details of what the "path" command does, and how to change it. o Memory-resident programmes (also known as "TSR's", meaning programmes which Terminate and Stay Ready) and even some device drivers may cause problems when COMMAND.COM is operated in this way. Try removing ALL your TSR's and device drivers, and test whether the DOS Gateway works then. Then re-install one programme at a time - first the device drivers, then the TSR's - and remember to re-boot the computer each time, before testing the Online Bible again. When one of these programmes causes the DOS Gateway to fail, you have found the offender. At this point you must decide whether to live without the offending TSR or device driver, or whether to give up the DOS Gateway in the Online Bible. On a simple DOS system with no TSR's or device drivers, the DOS Gateway always works correctly. o If your favourite programme will not run in the DOS Gateway because of its limited memory, you can increase the amount of memory available in the DOS Gateway by using the "memory" option described under "Startup Parameters" elsewhere in this manual. You will, however, pay a price for this, because the Online Bible runs more slowly when it reserves less memory for its use. 16.1.2 How the DOS Gateway Works When you select the DOS Gateway, the Online Bible actually loads and runs the DOS Command Processor "COMMAND.COM". This is the part of DOS which puts the system prompt "C:\>" on the screen and waits for you to type a command. Since COMMAND.COM is the only part of DOS the user actually sees, it is sometimes called the "shell" of DOS. Using the DOS Gateway in this way is sometimes called "shelling out to DOS". - 37 - 16.2 System Options Sometimes you may wish to adjust the size or orientation of the Scan and Reference Windows, alter the on-screen colours, or change the layout of printed output. The Systems Option selection lets you make these changes. When you select Systems Options, a pop-up menu with 11 choices appears: Upper Window Size 12 Note Window Row 3 Note Window Size 22 Characters/Line 60 Lines on a Page 60 Left Margin Size 10 Top Margin Size 6 Foreground Colour Light Grey Background Colour Black Highlight Colour White Display Windows Horizontal Use the up and down cursor keys to choose the setting you wish to change. When the cursor is on the desired choice, use the left and right cursor keys to change its value. For numerical values, the left cursor key decreases the value and the right cursor key increases it. 16.2.1 Upper Window Size When horizontal windows are selected, the dividing line between the Scan and Reference Windows can be moved up or down by specifying the size of the Scan Window (upper window). The minimum size allowed is zero lines; setting the size to zero disables word searching and phrase searching. The maximum size allowed is one line less than the number of lines the screen can display. If your computer has a video card capable of displaying more than 25 lines, the Online Bible automatically senses the display mode in which you are running your monitor, and adjusts the window size limit accordingly. Setting the size of the Scan Window to its maximum prevents the display of passages in the Reference Window. 16.2.2 Note Window Row, Note Window Size The Note Window appears when you ask the Online Bible to display your verse notes and your word definitions. It overlaps all or part of the other windows on the screen. The top of the Note Window can be placed anywhere between lines 1 and 19, and its size (in lines) will be adjusted accordingly. If you do not specify either the position of the Note Window or its size, the default settings make it fill the entire screen. If your computer has a video card capable of displaying more than 25 lines, the Online Bible automatically senses the display mode in which you are running your monitor, and adjusts the limit for the Note Window size accordingly. - 38 - 16.2.3 Characters/Line, Lines on Page, Left Margin Size, Top Margin Size Most people like to have some white space around printed text for punching holes, stapling, making notes etc. You can place printed output almost anywhere on the page. In planning page layouts, you need to understand some special terms. The following diagram illustrates the various parts of the page layout, and shows the settings that are in effect when you first load the Online Bible: PAGE WIDTH 80 chars <------------------------------------> ------------------------------------ ^ | ^ TOP | | | | MARGIN | | | v 6 lines | | | -------------- | | | | ^ | | | | | | | | | | | CHARACTERS | | | | | PER | LINE | | | | | 60|chars | | | | |<-----+------>| | | LEFT | | | RIGHT | PAGE | MARGIN | LINES PER | MARGIN | LENGTH | 10 | PAGE | 10 | 66 (70) | chars | 60 (64) lines| chars | lines |<-------->| | |<-------->| | | | | | | | | v | | | | -------------- | | | ^ BOTTOM | | | | MARGIN | | | v 0 lines | | ------------------------------------ v TERM DESCRIPTION SET AT UNITS ---------- ------------------------ ------ ---------- Left White space at the left 10 characters Margin side of the page Right White space at the right 10 characters Margin side of the page Characters Maximum number of 60 characters Per Line characters that can be printed between the left and right margins Page Total of left margin + 80 characters Width right margin + characters per line - 39 - Top White space at the top 6 lines Margin of the page Bottom White space at the 0 lines Margin bottom of the page Lines Maximum number of lines 60 (64) lines Per Page that can be printed between the top and bottom margins Page Total of top margin + 66 (70) lines Length bottom margin + characters per line On metric size paper, the lines per page in 64 and the page length is 70. These values are shown as (64) and (70) in the preceding. When you choose the size of the paper, that fixes the Page Width and Page Length. After that, you need to specify only these four settings to have complete control of the page layout: Left Margin Characters Per Line Top Margin Lines Per Page The Right Margin does not need to be specified because it gets whatever is left of the Page Width after you have specified the Left Margin and the Characters Per Line. Similarly, the Bottom Margin gets whatever is left of the Page Length. Most printers, when first switched on, are set to print a page width of 80 characters in a Pica (10 characters per inch) font, and a page length of 66 lines at a line height of 6 lines per inch. The page layout settings shown above fit such a printer when it is loaded with standard North American "letter" size paper, 8-1/2 inches wide and 11 inches long. The international standard A4 size paper is 210mm wide and 297mm long. The page length is 70 lines. If you change these settings, remember that the Page Width and Page Length (as defined in the table above) must not exceed the physical limits of your printer. For example, if the printer can put only 80 characters on a line, do not set the Left Margin to 10 and the Characters Per Line to 80, because these add up to 90 characters. Some printers will ignore the extra characters on a line; others will print them on the next line, and a few will even get jammed. None of these is desirable. Of course, many printers can be set to other font widths and line heights. If you change these on your printer, you should calculate the new values for Page Width and Page Length: - 40 - Old Page Width x New Characters Per Inch New Page Width = -------------------------------------- Old Character Per Inch Old Page Length x New Lines Per Inch New Page Length = ------------------------------------ Old Lines Per Inch Then choose appropriate values for Left Margin, Characters Per Line, Top Margin and Lines Per Page and set them through this menu. For example, if you change from a Pica font (10 character per inch) to an Elite font (12 characters per inch): 80 x 12 New Page Width = ------- = 96 characters 10 If you decide to make the Left and Right Margins each 12 characters, you must therefore make the following settings: Left Margin: = 12 Characters Per Line: 96 - 12 - 12 = 72 Of course if you change paper size, you will also have to change the Page Width and Page Length in proportion to characters per inch and 6 lines per inch: NORTH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL ---------------------------- ------------- SETTING LETTER SIZE HALF SHEET METRIC A4 8-1/2 x 11" 5-1/2 x 8-1/2" 210 x 297 mm ------------- -------------- ------------- ------------- Left Margin 10 5 10 Characters Per Line 60 45 60 Top Margin 6 3 6 Lines Per Page 60 48 64 16.2.4 Foreground, Background, Highlight Colour To alter the on-screen colours, use the left or right cursor keys to set the foreground, background and highlight colours. Each change will take effect immediately on the display, so you can see the result of your choices. IMPORTANT. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A COLOUR MONITOR DO NOT CHANGE THE ORIGINAL SETTINGS The settings as originally shipped have been carefully adjusted to provide the clearest possible displays on monochrome monitors, including the LCD screens used on laptop computers and monochrome VGA. If you have been using the Online Bible on a computer with a colour - 41 - monitor and now want to use it on another computer with a monochrome monitor, it is better to re-install it from the original disks, rather than copy a working version from one computer to another. 16.2.5 Scan & Reference Windows The Online Bible gives you the choice of having the Scan Window and Reference Window side by side (vertical split) or one above the other (horizontal split). Press the right or left cursor keys to change this setting. 16.3 Leaving System Options If you change your mind about any of the settings you have made at the System Options menu, press Esc to exit from this menu. None of the changes you made will be retained. If you are happy with the settings you have made, press Enter to exit from this menu. All of your settings will be saved on your disk, so they are the defaults (unless you change them again). 16.4 Change Note Prefix Appendix C describes how you can set up directories for several different sets of verse notes. These could be notes belonging to different users, notes taken for different purposes etc. Use the Change Note Prefix option to choose a different set of notes to work with, without having to exit and restart the Online Bible. The notes are stored in eleven subdirectories with names all starting with the same "prefix". For example, the directories have the prefix "notes": notes.000, notes.030, notes.060, ... notes.300. When you select Change Note Prefix, a pop-up menu appears asking for the new note prefix. Type the prefix for the set of notes directories you want to use, and press Enter. This change takes effect immediately. 16.5 Exit When you select this function and press Enter, the Online Bible is terminated and you are returned to the DOS prompt. If you want to return to a DOS Menu and use any other programme on your computer, exit from the Online Bible by using ATL + Q. 17 STARTUP PARAMETERS MOST USERS CAN SKIP THIS ENTIRE SECTION. The standard settings of the Online Bible have been chosen to give the best possible performance on most computers. However, the Online Bible can be "fine-tuned" to meet special needs by using the optional parameters described below when starting it from the DOS command line. The Online Bible recognises these command line parameters: - 42 - PARAMETER ABBREV. DESCRIPTION --------- ------- -------------------------------- Directory d Directory containing Bible files BB b Bulletin Board option (B) BIOS bi Screen BIOS option Lexicon l Directory containing Lexicons Memory m Amount of memory to leave free Notes n Directories containing Notes Prefix p Filename for Notes files Ramdisk r Look for files on RAMdisk Topics t Directories contains Topics VC v Visually Challenged option You can use either the full name of the parameter, or the first one or two characters. The abbreviations shown above are the shortest possible abbreviations that will work. These parameters can be typed in upper or lower case (capitals or small letters) and can occur in any order. The only exception is that when the "Directory" parameter is used, it must come first in the parameter list. 17.1 Directory Containing Bible Files (D) The optional parameter "d" on the startup command line invokes the Directory Option. This option is used for supporting other versions and translations, and must not be changed unless the installation directions explicitly instruct you to do so. This keyword parameter must be specified correctly, and should be first in the list of parameters on the startup command line. If it is not, the Online Bible will not know where to find its message file, so it will be unable to help you with any errors you have made. Example: if the files for the NIV version are stored in the directory "c:\bible.niv", use the following command line for starting the Online Bible: av dir=c:\bible.niv If you use this keyword when not directed to do so, the Online Bible may not work. 17.2 Bulletin Board Option (B) The optional parameter "bb" on the startup command line invokes the Bulletin Board Option. This protects the host computer when the Online Bible is made available via a bulletin board system. The user cannot create any files on the host system, nor escape to DOS. In other words, the user can "look, but not touch." All function keys are mapped into ASCII control keys. Extended ASCII characters are only used on the first screen. If your bulletin board software requires that all programmes must use the BIOS for screen I/O, see the next option. 17.3 Screen Bios Option (BI) The optional parameter "bi" on the startup command line invokes the Screen BIOS Option. This forces the Online Bible to perform all screen I/O through the BIOS. Some bulletin board systems require this to work - 43 - correctly. Also, some of the "screen readers" used by visually chal- lenged persons may require this option to work correctly. 17.4 Directory Containing Lexicons (L) The optional parameter "l" on the startup command line specifies the path which contains your lexicon and cross reference files. Installation of the lexicons automatically adds this value to the "AV" batch file, so you should not need to specify it here. 17.5 Amount of Memory to Leave Free (M) The optional parameter "m" on the startup command line specifies how much memory the Online Bible leaves free while running. Without this parameter, the Online Bible pre-loads as many of its files as possible into memory, so it can operate as fast as possible. However, if you want to run another programme in the DOS Gateway there must be sufficient free memory to do so - usually, at least 64K. Example: to make the free memory 64K, use the following command line for starting the Online Bible: av mem=64 If you specify too large an amount of free memory, this will leave insufficient memory for the Online Bible itself to run and it will abort during startup. Also, the Online Bible runs slower if there is insufficient memory to load its index files into memory. To obtain the absolute maximum amount of free memory, specify "mem=999" and NO data files will be loaded into memory. You are unlikely to need this option if you have a 640K computer and use UED as your text editor. 17.6 Directories Containing Notes (N) The optional parameter "n" on the startup command line specifies the path to the drive and directory which contains your verse notes. The installation automatically adds this value to the "AV" batch file, so you should not normally need to specify it. Use this option to keep your notes on floppy disks if your hard drive is quite full. 17.7 Filename for Notes Files (P) Use the optional parameter "p" on the startup command line to allow several people to have their personal notes. Otherwise, everyone's notes for the same verse would be mixed together. Full details of using this parameter are found in Appendix A under "Customising The Notes Location". 17.8 Look for Files on Ramdisk (R) The optional parameter "r" on the startup command line makes the Online Bible search the RAMdisk(s) for its files. A RAMdisk is a part of the computer's memory which has been set up to work like a very fast disk drive. RAMdisks can be created in main memory, extended memory or expanded memory. This can be done, for example, by using the device drivers VDISK.SYS or RAMDRIVE.SYS included with many versions - 44 - of DOS, or similar drivers supplied with many memory expansion cards - see your DOS and hardware manuals for details. This option is useful if you have specified the "free memory" option "m" to conserve main memory, but find the resulting performance unacceptable, and your computer has some extended or expanded memory which can be configured as a RAMdisk. (Of course, you would gain nothing by creating a RAMdisk in the main memory, since that's what you are trying to conserve.) When the "r" parameter is used and the Online Bible finds one of its files on that RAMdisk, those files are not pre-loaded into main memory even if there is ample room. This is another way to reduce the amount of main memory required by the Online Bible without sacrificing performance. The files "TEXTNDX.DAT", "XREFNDXS.DAT", and "XREFNDX.DAT" are good candidates for a RAMdisk. If you have enough space, try "TEXT.DAT" as well. Do not place "TOKENS.DAT" on the RAMdisk; this file should always be loaded into main memory, otherwise the displays will be jerky. Example: to specify that drive D: is the RAMdisk: av ram=d: If you used this option on earlier versions, try removing it now. Version 5 requires about 120K less memory than previous versions. 17.9 Directories Containing Topics (T) The optional parameter "t" on the startup command line specifies the path to the drive and directory which contains your topics. The installation automatically adds this value to the "AV" batch file, so you should not normally need to specify it. 17.10 Visually Challenged Option (V) The optional parameter "v" on the startup command line invokes slightly different operation of the Online Bible: o It suppresses many special characters from the display. o It uses highlighting rather than reverse video for displays. o Only one verse at a time is displayed in the Scan and Reference Windows. These changes make the Online Bible more compatible with add-on systems which can read the screen to assist the visually challenged. Some of these systems also require that all programmes must use the BIOS for screen I/O. If that is the case, specify the BIOS option also on the startup line, as in this example: av vc bios 18 USEFUL EDITOR 18.1 Features - 45 - Useful Editor (UED) is a small (about 35K), fast, ASCII editor that is suitable for a wide variety of text manipulation tasks. Some of UED's features include: o ability to edit up to 9 files in memory at once o files as large as 1000 characters wide and 9999 lines long o file size is only limited by available memory o split screen editing o typeover and insert mode editing o search and replace (both case sensitive and insensitive) o cut and paste (three modes: line, range, and block) o escape to DOS o can load "piped" files o wildcard expansion of command line arguments o automatic backups created when saving (if desired) o word wrap and paragraph reformat o smart indentation o easy to use consistent interface o user configurable preferences 18.2 System Requirements UED runs on any IBM PC or compatible. UED automatically determines the type of video card installed and switches the card into 80 X 25 text mode when it starts up. The following video cards (or ones that are compatible) are supported: o Colour Graphics Adapter (CGA) o Monochrome Graphics Adapter (MGA) o Hercules Graphics Adapter (HGA) o Enhanced Graphics Adaptor (EGA) o Video Graphics Array (VGA) o Multi-Colour Graphics Array (MCGA) Any monitor that can display 80 X 25 text works with UED. If you have a colour monitor and card, you can change the default colours (of black and white) by running uedcfg.exe (see Configuring UED). In addition UED supports a 43 line display on EGA systems and a 28 or 50 line display on VGA systems. UED is very small and runs on systems with as little as 128K of memory. Of course the more memory that you have, the larger the files that you are able to edit. 18.3 Starting Up UED From the DOS prompt, type: UED <filename1> <filename2> ... <filename9> then press the Enter key. Each "filename" is either an ASCII text file that you want to edit or the name of a file that you want to create. Up to 9 file names can be specified on the command line when starting up UED and can contain wildcard characters. Each file is assigned to its own workspace. Piping to UED is allowed. For instance if you typed the command: - 46 - dir | UED A directory listing would be loaded into UED with the name "PIPED". You can also start up UED with no files specified. In this case the editor starts within an empty unnamed workspace. 18.4 Workspaces Files are loaded into UED "workspaces". A workspace can be as much as 1,000 characters wide, and 10,000 lines deep. You can move the cursor anywhere in the workspace to edit text. The "text window" follows the cursor as you move about the workspace. There are 9 workspaces (numbered 1-9) in UED, each of which can hold a single file. The F2 Workspace command is used to switch between workspaces. UED maintains one other workspace (workspace 0) which is used as a "clipboard" when you Cut and Paste text. 18.5 Screen Layout UED uses the top 23 lines of the screen to display the text being edited. Consider this to be a "window" (that is 80 columns wide and 23 lines deep) into the "text workspace". This window is bordered on the top and sides by the edge of the screen, and bounded on the bottom by an inverse line. That inverse line is called the "status line". On the left edge of the status line is a number (0-9) which indicates what workspace that you are in. Beside it appears the name of the file that you are editing in that workspace. To the right side of the status line, the line and column position of the cursor is displayed. Below the status line are the command lines. All of the commands that are currently available to you are displayed on these two lines. 18.6 The Cursor(s) The "cursor" is a pointer within a workspace. Text can be added or deleted here. In UED the cursor appears as a solid inverted block when you are in "insert mode", and a flashing underscore when you are in "typeover mode". When you start up UED a cursor appears in the upper left hand corner of the text window. This is your "active" cursor. In actual fact there are two cursors in UED. An "inactive" cursor is initially positioned there as well but not displayed. When you move the active cursor, the inactive cursor remains where it is. You can move the active cursor to the inactive cursor position by using the "Flip" command (Ctrl-F). The position that you moved from becomes the inactive cursor position. The inactive cursor can be used as a "bookmark" in your text (a place that you want to get to quickly) and also plays an important role in the F8 Split command. 18.7 Moving the Cursor Moving the cursor around can be accomplished with the following keys. In all cases, the text window is adjusted when necessary in order to keep the cursor on the screen. - 47 - Up Arrow Moves the cursor up one line of text. Down Arrow Moves the cursor down one line of text. -> Moves the cursor right one character. <- Moves the cursor left one character. Home Moves the cursor to the first character on the current line. If you are already on the first character, moves the cursor to column one. End Moves the cursor one position past the last character on the current line. PgUp Moves the cursor up one screen of text. PgDn Moves the cursor down one screen of text. Additional cursor movement commands can be accessed by holding down the "Ctrl" key (you will see the menu change when you do this) and pressing one of these keys: Ctrl -> Moves the cursor to the beginning of the next word. (A word is considered to be a series of characters preceded and followed by at least one space.) Ctrl <- Moves the cursor to the beginning of the previous word. Flip Moves the active cursor to the inactive cursor position. The current cursor position becomes the inactive cursor. Goto Line Prompts for a line number, then moves the cursor to the line number entered. Adjusts the text window so that the cursor is centred vertically in the window.. Outdent Moves the cursor left to the previous level of indentation. Ctrl Home Moves the cursor to the first line of the current file. Ctrl End Moves the cursor one line past the end of the current file. Ctrl PgDn When a search Pattern has been defined, moves the cursor to the next occurrence of Pattern in the text. Ctrl PgUp When a search Pattern has been defined, moves the cursor to the previous occurrence of Pattern in the text. 18.8 Entering Text To enter text into UED, position the cursor where you want the text to be added and then type. If you make a mistake use the Backspace or Del key to erase the error. In insert mode, characters to the right of the solid block cursor (including the current character) shift right to make room for new text being entered. You can do "power" data entry using UED by turning on the "word wrap" feature found under the Text command. When you turn word wrap on you will notice an inverse line appear down the right side of the screen. This line marks the right margin. With word wrap on, any word that is incomplete when it "hits" the right margin is moved down to the next line. With this feature you can enter long passages of text without having to worry about the ends of lines. You can alter the position of the right margin with the Set and Enter options of the Text command. UED considers a block of text separated by at least one blank line above and below to be a paragraph. Editing text within a paragraph when word wrap is on might be a little disconcerting at first, especially when in insert mode. UED makes no attempt to reformat paragraph text "on-the-fly" as you are editing it. When in insert mode UED moves any text to the right of the cursor down to the next - 48 - line (if necessary) to make room for new text. The Paragraph Reformat option under the Text command can be used to fix things up after you have made all your changes. 18.9 Smart Indentation When you press the Enter key, the cursor moves down one line and UED positions the cursor under the first character of the current line. This makes it easy to enter blocks of indented text. Similarly the Paragraph Reformat looks at the leading spaces on the second line of a paragraph to determine where to place the left margin (the right margin is "set" explicitly). Any positive or negative indentation on the first line will be preserved. The Outdent option under the Ctrl key moves the cursor to the previous level of indentation (which it determines by looking "up" in the text of the workspace). 18.10 Deleting Things Characters are deleted with the following keys: Del Deletes the character under the cursor. Any text to the right of that character shifts left to "fill the gap". If the cursor is past the end of the line and you are in insert mode, UED brings up the next line of text and joins it with the current line. Backspace Moves the cursor left one character. If you are in insert mode, UED deletes the character to the left of the cursor and all text to the right of and including the cursor shifts left. Also in insert mode, if the cursor is in column 1, UED moves the current line up and joins it with the previous line. Backtab Moves the cursor to the previous tab stop. If you are in insert mode, all characters to the left of the cursor up to and including the previous tab stop are deleted. By pressing and holding down the Alt key, a sub-menu with the following additional delete options appears: Word Deletes the word under the cursor. If the cursor is not on a word, the first word to the left of the cursor (if there is one) is deleted. Beginning of Line Deletes all of the text to the left of the cursor. The remaining text and the cursor shift left to the current level of indentation. End of Line Deletes all of the text to the right of and including the character under the cursor. Line Deletes the line that the cursor is on. 18.11 Other Keys You Should Know About The following keys are important to the operation of UED: - 49 - Esc Returns to the previous level of menus. If you are at the main command menu nothing happens. Ins Switches between "typeover" and "insert" modes. Enter Moves the cursor down one line and positions it at the current level of indentation. If you are in insert mode, a new line is created immediately after the current line, and any text to the right of and including the cursor character is moved down with the cursor. Tab Moves the cursor to the next tab stop. If you are in insert mode, characters to the right of and including the cursor character shift right with the cursor. 18.12 Main Menu Commands The function keys F1 - F10 are used to access the main UED command set. These commands are invoked by pressing the appropriate function key. In addition, pressing and holding down the Ctrl key reveals additional cursor movement keys. Pressing and holding down the Alt key is used for Delete functions. Many of the main menu commands have sub-options. Sub-option menus replace the main command menu when invoked. They show the main command selected in inverse text (just below the file name on the status line) and the option choices on the bottom line of the screen. You select an option by pressing the first (highlighted) letter or character of the appropriate choice. You can always get out of sub-option menu(s) by pressing the Esc key, or by selecting another main menu command. The sections that follow describe the main menu commands and suboptions in more detail. 18.12.1 F1 File File commands are used to copy UED workspaces to and from disk files. In addition the current workspace can be erased or renamed. Load Prompts for the name of a file to load. If the entered file name is found on the disk in the current directory, UED copies it into the workspace at the current cursor position. Existing text is moved to make room for the text being loaded. An empty workspace is given the name of the first file loaded into it. Save The workspace text is copied to a disk file in the current directory and given the current workspace name. UED prompts for a file name if the workspace is unnamed. If the "backups" option is on, a backup copy of the file on disk to be over written is created with a .bak extension prior to saving. Thus if you save over a file by mistake you can immediately recover from the backup copy. Name Prompts for a name for the current workspace. The name entered must be a valid DOS file name. If the name is the same as one on your disk in the current directory, UED prompts you to verify that you really want to use that name. Clear Erases the contents of the current workspace. If the workspace has been changed since that last time it was saved, UED prompts you to verify that you really want to clear the workspace. - 50 - 18.12.2 F2 Workspace The Workspace command allows you to switch between the files that you have loaded. In addition some status information about workspaces is displayed as follows: > This symbol appears to the left of a workspace number if that workspace has been used at any time during the current edit session. * When this symbol appears immediately after a workspace number it means that the workspace has been changed in some way since it was last saved. <- This arrow points to the number of the workspace that is currently being displayed in the active window. To move between workspaces use the following keys: <- Displays the previous (lower numbered) workspace. -> Displays the next workspace. Enter Moves you into the workspace pointed to by <-. 0 - 9 Moves directly to the workspace who's number is pressed. Esc Moves you to the workspace that was active when the F2 Workspace command was invoked. 18.12.3 F3 Search Search allows you to find strings or "Patterns" within the text of the current workspace and optionally substitute a "Replacement" string of your choosing. Count Displays the total number of times that the Search Pattern appears in the text of the current workspace. Fix Substitutes the Replacement string for a Pattern string provided that the cursor is on a piece of text matching Pattern (the text will be highlighted). Global All instances of text in the current workspace matching the Pattern string are changed to the Replacement string. Pattern Prompts for a search Pattern. If the Pattern entered is in all lower case, searches will be case insensitive. If any of the letters in the Pattern are in upper case, the workspace text and Pattern must be exactly the same for a match to occur. Replace- ment Prompts for a Replacement string. The Replacement string can be empty, which has the effect of deleting the Pattern when a Fix or Global substitution is applied. Changing the Pattern automatically clears the Replacement string. PgUp Moves the cursor to the previous occurrence of Pattern in the current workspace. If there are no more matches, moves the cursor to the beginning of the workspace. PgDn Moves the cursor to the next occurrence of Pattern in the current workspace. If there are no more matches, moves the cursor to the end of the workspace. - 51 - 18.12.4 F4 Print The contents of the current workspace are sent to the printer attached to LPT1. No formatting is performed on the text. 18.12.5 F5 Cut Cut allows you to select a block of text which can subsequently be deleted, copied, moved, or shifted. Text selection begins at the current cursor position. As you move the cursor around (using the standard cursor movement keys) selected text is highlighted. Selection ends when you press the Copy, Delete, or Move command keys. How the text gets marked out depends on the Cut mode that you are in. The three Cut styles are: Block A rectangular block of text. Line Whole lines of text only. Range All the text from one selected position in the text to another. Any time that you select a block of text and copy, move, or delete it, the selected text is copied to workspace 0. Workspace 0 thus acts as the "clipboard" or "cut buffer" for UED. The former contents of workspace 0 are lost when newly selected text is copied to it. You can edit in workspace 0 as you would any other workspace, but you have to be careful because of the transient nature of the text placed here (ie. its NOT a good idea to load files into workspace 0). Once marked, there are four operations that can be performed on the highlighted text. Copy Copies the selected text to workspace 0. Delete Copies the selected text to workspace 0 then removes it from the current workspace. Move Copies the selected text to workspace 0, removes it from the workspace, then prompts you to position the cursor where you want the text moved. When you press Enter to complete the operation, the selected text is copied to the new location. +/- Shifts the selected text right (+) or left (-). Text cannot be shifted over text that is not highlighted. You will notice that the highlighting does not go away. After shifting you can perform one of the other Cut operations, or press Esc to quit the Cut command. 18.12.6 F6 Paste This command copies the text from workspace 0 into the current workspace at the current cursor position. If you are in insert mode, the workspace text is moved to make room for the workspace 0 text being added. Care should be exercised when you are in typeover mode as the workspace 0 text is copied on top of the text in the current workspace. If there are more than 2 lines of text being Pasted and you are in typeover mode, you are asked to verify that you really want to Paste. - 52 - 18.12.7 F7 DOS When you press F7, UED starts up another DOS session by executing the secondary command processor. UED looks at the environment variable COMSPEC= for the name of the secondary command processor. This is usually COMMAND.COM. The F7 Dos command fails if: o COMSPEC= is not set in the environment o the command processor indicated by COMSPEC could not be found o there is not enough memory to run the command processor To return to UED, from the DOS prompt type: exit then press the Enter key. 18.12.8 F8 Split/Zoom Pressing F8 splits the text window horizontally at the current cursor position. A second status line appears separating the two windows. The upper window shows the text at the active cursor, while the lower window shows the text at the inactive cursor position. You can flip between the windows using the Ctrl-F command. Both windows can "view" the same workspace, or each can be positioned on a different workspace. If they are both positioned over the same piece of text, changes made in one will be echoed to the other. Pressing F8 again expands (zooms) the window containing the active cursor to be the size of a full screen. The window containing the text pointed to by the inactive cursor is no longer displayed. 18.12.9 F9 Text The Text command offers some simple word processing options. Enter Right Margin Prompts for the column that you want words to wrap at. The column must be in the range 20 to 250. Set Right Margin The right margin is placed one character position past the longest line in the current paragraph (ie. the one that the cursor is on). Reformat Paragraph Adjusts the text in the current paragraph so that each line has the maximum number of words between the left and right margins. The left margin is determined by looking at the number of spaces preceding the second line of the paragraph. The right margin is set with one of the above commands. A paragraph is delimited by a blank line or a line that starts with a "." or a ":". Word Wrap Turns the word wrap feature ON or OFF. 25,28,43,50 - 53 - Lines Changes the number of lines displayed on the screen. This option is only available if you have an EGA or VGA monitor. 18.12.10 F10 Quit This command is used to exit UED. If any of the workspaces have been modified in any way, you are prompted to verify that you really want to quit. ALT-X also exits the programme. 18.13 Configuring UED A separate programme (uedcfg.exe) is provided to modify UED with some of your own preferences. When you run this UED Configuration, you must ensure that UED.exe is in the current directory. Follow the prompts for the configuration programme, and when you have answered the last question UED.exe will be updated with your selections. The following user preferences can be configured within UED: o video display mode o initial text entry mode o initial Cut style o colour of normal/inverse text o distance between tab stops o initial right margin column and startup mode 19 FUTURE PLANS 1. The RVA 1989 Spanish version should be ready early 1991. The German and French Bibles in late 1991, or early 1992. 2. Each fall starting in 1990, we will issue a revised lexicon based on all the word studies we have received. 3. A Greek New Testament based on Stephanus 1550 Greek New Testament, Textus Receptus, Majority Text, and the Alexandrian Text. Dr. M. Robinson patiently entered the entire document himself. This will support display of Greek characters on EGA and VGA screens, and printing of Greek characters on most dot matrix printers. Screens other than EGA and VGA will display transliterated codes. Later we plan to index this work to Strong's numbers. We are planning a combined Majority text and Alexandrian text version, for sometime in 1991. 4. We plan to code the Hebrew Bible to Strong's numbers and produce a version for the Online Bible. This should take about two years to do. Next spring we are planning a Hebrew Bible with just the consonantal text. 5. We plan to check all the Strong's numbers as we do the work using our Greek and Hebrew Bibles. We plan to make the Strong's numbers in the English version exhaustive and perfect. 6. In the spring, we planning a $5 update with the following new features. o An index system to help you manage your material you placed in the topic files. o Display and print Greek characters for the Greek version. o Improvements you suggest to us. - 54 - o The TSR for Word Processors. If you have any questions on any of these plans, do not hesitate to write us. All of these plans for the future are conditional on the One who gives us strength. 20 SUMMARY Three years ago, I started working on the Online Bible. Five versions later, the Online Bible reaches maturity. In addition to the excellent search facilities, you can now add your personal notes to any verse in the entire Bible. You can use the topic feature to add notes that relate to many verses in the Bible. The Greek and Hebrew lexicons and Strong's numbers have been completed for the entire Bible. The cross-reference facility completes the Online Bible by connecting together verses which contain similar thoughts expressed in different words. Word Processor users now have a TSR to access the Bible text and notes. A spelling dictionary eliminates annoying spell check errors. The following individuals worked hard to help me bring you all this in so short a time. o Tom Cox and Sam Ellis typed most of the cross references. o John Anderson created the new Hebrew Lexicon and updated the Greek lexicon. o John Schoberg worked for hours proof-reading the 1991 lexicons. To all those who wrote to me, thank you. I was greatly encouraged by your many positive comments and useful suggestions. As users gain experience and send in more suggestions, the Online Bible will continue to improve. I hope the pace will slacken giving me more time to spend on foreign translations. Use the Online Bible to the glory of God. A P P E N D I X A Book Name Abbreviations When you are prompted to specify which books of the Bible you want to work with, the Online Bible recognises abbreviations. The first three letters of a book's name always work, except for Philemon (use "Phm") and Jude (use only "J"). (These exceptions avoid confusion with Philippians and Judges, respectively). In addition, the following abbreviations always work: Genesis Ge Isaiah Isa Romans Ro Exodus Ex Jeremiah Jer 1 Corinthians 1Co Leviticus Le Lamentations La 2 Corinthians 2Co Numbers Nu Ezekiel Eze Galatians Ga Deuteronomy De Daniel Da Ephesians Eph Joshua Jos Hosea Ho Philippians Php Judges Jud Joel Joe Colossians Col Ruth Ru Amos Am 1 Thessalonians 1Th 1 Samuel 1Sa Obadiah Ob 2 Thessalonians 2Th 2 Samuel 2Sa Jonah Jon 1 Timothy 1Ti 1 Kings 1Ki Micah Mic 2 Timothy 2Ti - 55 - 2 Kings 2Ki Nahum Na Titus Tit 1 Chronicles 1Ch Habakkuk Hab Philemon Phm 2 Chronicles 2Ch Zephaniah Zep Hebrews Heb Ezra Ezr Haggai Hag James Jas Nehemiah Ne Zechariah Zec 1 Peter 1Pe Esther Es Malachi Mal 2 Peter 2Pe Job Job Matthew Mt 1 John 1Jo Psalms Ps Mark Mr 2 John 2Jo Proverbs Pr Luke Lu 3 John 3Jo Ecclesiastes Ec John Joh Jude Jude Song of Solomon So Acts Ac Revelation Re Also, the following special abbreviations always work: Judges Ju John Jno 1 John 1Jno Canticles * Ca Philippians Phi 2 John 2Jno Mark Mk 3 John 3Jno * "Canticles" is another name for Song of Solomon For books with only one chapter, the chapter need not be specified; for example, Jude 4 means exactly the same verse as Jude 1:4. When naming notes files created "outside" the Online Bible which will be imported into the Verse Notes by using the Note File Update function, use only the abbreviations in the main table above. Do not use the first three letters of the book name (unless that is the form of abbreviation in the table), and do not use the special abbreviations. See "Verse Notes" in the manual for more details about importing Verse Notes. A P P E N D I X B Software Distribution To help you distribute the Online Bible we included COPYQM. This copies disks quickly and accurately. This is the next best thing to a disk copying machine. Note that COPYQM is not freeware; the author requires $15 for its use, so if you use it, send the author his due. We include version 1.61 of COPYQM, but when you register the author will send you the latest version, which is even better. Please mention, when you register, that you obtained your evaluation copy with the Online Bible. Disk Capacity DOS computers come with various kinds of floppy disk drives - 5-1/4 and 3-1/2 inch size, 360K, 720K, 1.2M and 1.44M capacity, and others. The installation procedure for the Online Bible is therefore independent of the capacity of the media, so any DOS disk format can be used to distribute the Online Bible. For example, to distribute the Online Bible on 3-1/2 inch 720K disks, copy the 360K disks to 720K disks in the same order you normally install them; since two 360K disks fit on one 720K disk, you should end up with half as many 720K disks as 360K disks. - 56 - Using Different Disk Sizes Create a new master copy on a different disk size by observing the following rules: 1. Prevent accidental file deletion; MARK all files on your new master as READ-ONLY. Do this using the DOS "ATTRIB" command. 2. Use write protect tabs on the 5 1/4 inch disks and the write protect latch on the 3 1/2 inch disks. Do this for your master copy and all copies you make. 3. Copy all files using the DOS "XCOPY" with the VERIFY option; this verifies your copies are correct. Only XCOPY will reproduce zero-length files for your new master. 4. Install your new master copy BEFORE you use it to make copies for your friends. 5. Do not use high density 5 1/4" or 3 1/2" for distribution. They are unreliable. Do not use a high density 5 1/4" drive to copy low density disks. The next section gives the file mapping between various size disks. Mapping Files onto Various Sized Disks Filename 360K Disk No. 720K Disk No. -------- ------------- ------------- Installation Disk ----------------- many files 1 1 Authorised Version Text Module ------------------------------ av.001 2 2 av.002 3 2 av.003 4 3 av.004 5 3 av.005 6 4 av.006 7 4 av.907 8 5 Cross References Text Module ---------------------------- cxref.001 9 6 cxref.902 10 6 Lexicon Text Module ------------------- lexicon.001 11 7 lexicon.002 12 7 lexicon.003 13 8 lexicon.904 14 8 - 57 - A P P E N D I X C Customisation You can customise the Online Bible to a limited degree. The following paragraphs describe what you might want to change. Replacing The Notes Editor To edit your verse notes, we supply a basic text editor called "UED". It is not mandatory to use this editor; your favourite editor may also work with the Online Bible. To use another editor, delete UED.EXE and create a batch file called "UED.BAT" containing: myedit %1 %2 where "myedit" is the name of your editor. When the Online Bible runs this batch file, it runs your editor and makes "%1" the name of the notes file you wish to edit, and "%2" the name of the file containing the associated context verses. For this to work, your editor must be able to load both files into separate "windows" or "workspaces" from the DOS command line. Your editor may have this capability; if in doubt check its manual, or just try it out. Some editors can load only a single file from the DOS command line; they will load the notes file, but not the associated verses. If you understand DOS batch files, you may be able to write a more elaborate UED.BAT to adapt this feature to a particular editor you like. There may not be enough memory to invoke your favourite editor in this way. In that case, reduce the memory requirements of the Online Bible by copying some of its files to a RAMdisk, or by using the "MEM- ORY" parameter to reduce the amount of memory it uses. See the chapter on "Startup Parameters" in the manual. Customising The Notes Location Normally, the following eleven directories are created for the notes files in the directory "c:\bible" during installation, notes.000, notes.030, ... notes.300. As originally shipped, the subdirectories for the notes and lexicon are placed in the \BIBLE directory so that if you have both the AV and the other versions of the Online Bible, your notes are available from both versions. However, you can place the notes in another subdirectory; if you do, you must also correct the path in the "notes=" parameter in AV.BAT. (If you do not understand this paragraph, ignore this section and do not change anything.). Now suppose another user called Mary wants to have her notes files separate from yours. The following command creates a set of eleven notes directories called mary.000, mary.030 etc. for her use: notes c mary where "c" must be the same drive on which the first set of notes was created. (If Mary's name is longer than 8 characters, she must abbreviate it). When Mary uses the Online Bible, she then starts it in the following way: - 58 - av p=mary,n=c: A better solution is to create a new startup batch file for Mary, similar to AV.BAT but with the p= and n= parameters included. A P P E N D I X D Change Log for Version 5.0 1. Bulletin Board support handles control codes instead of function keys. 2. Cross references completed for entire Bible. 3. Strong's numbers revised for New Testament. 4. New 1991 Hebrew and Greek Lexicons. 5. 28 line VGA mode support. 6. Theological Spelling Dictionary included. 7. Memory requirement reduced by about 100k. 8. Topic support added. 9. Exegesis spanning Old Testament to New Testament prints correct definitions. 10. Visually Challenged support improved. 11. Verses with notes are marked. 12. UED now can recreate a null file so you can erase your verse notes. A P P E N D I X E Basic Christian Resource Material We recommend that all students of the Bible have at least the following books in their library besides their Bible. 1. THEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY of the NEW TESTAMENT (CBD #2404 $39.95) The 1991 Greek lexicon is keyed to this work. If you can not afford the ten volume Kittel, this one volume "Little Kittel" is an excellent substitute. This contains many good word studies. 2. THEOLOGICAL WORDBOOK of the OLD TESTAMENT (CBD #86312 $34.95) The 1991 Hebrew lexicon is keyed to this work. This extensive, scholarly work includes discussions of every Hebrew word of theological significance in the Old Testament. It contains over 1,400 articles written by 43 Old Testament scholars. 3. LITTLE KITTEL and THEOLOGICAL WORDBOOK (CBD #2486 $64.90) Christian Book Distributors offer this special price if you order both of these books. 4. NEW MATTHEW HENRY COMMENTARY (CBD #75516 $39.95) This classic has just been redone in easier to read print. These books are available from either of these two stores. Christian Book Distributors Good Book Services P.O. Box 3687 Priority Works Peabody, MA Gurdry Lane, Bridgport 01961-3687 Dorset, DT6 3RJ United Kingdom Tel: (508) 977-4550 Tel: 0308 421515 - 59 - Prices shown are for the summer of 1990. Please verify the prices before ordering. SAMPLE BIBLE STUDY TO PLACE DESIRED PASSAGES INTO YOUR STUDY: 1. Depress cursors to highlight PASSAGE DISPLAY. 2. Depress ENTER - screen will show ENTER REFERENCE. 3. Type in desired passage reference such as JO 1:1. 4. Depress ENTER - screen will display specified passages - depress ESC. 5. Depress cursors to highlight PASSAGE PRINT. 6. Depress ENTER - screen will display PRINT OPTIONS. 7. Since we are planning to use our own word processing programme such as WORDPERFECT and not the built in word processing programme: a. In FORMAT TEXT: change the YES to NO by depressing either the cursor left or right. b. Depress down cursor to TITLE. c. Type in desired title such as JOHN. d. Depress down cursor to PRINT FILE NAME. e. Delete PRN (if PRN is allowed to remain displayed, your passages would be printed out right now, and we are not Ready for these to be printed out yet). f. Type into the PRINT FILE NAME space the desired name such as STUDY. g. Cursor now to PRINT VERSE RANGE - type in the desired range, such as JO 1:1 - 1:5. h. Depress ENTER - cursor goes to FORMAT TEXT line. i. Depress ENTER again - at bottom of screen will be displayed REPLACE FILE? YES. Since this is your first entry of a new study, you do want to replace any previous files so depress ENTER. You have now placed the desired scriptures in your STUDY file. If you wish to verify this: Depress cursor to EXIT and depress ENTER. Your programme will now exit to your menu, depending upon your individual programme, but in any case, enter your particular word processing programme and confirm that your STUDY file was recorded. In my WORD PERFECT programme, the procedure is to: 8. Depress LIST FILES key. 9. Screen will display DIR C:\WP\*.* 10. Move cursor to the W and depress delete 3 times - screen will now display DIR C:\*.* with the cursor on the first *. 11. Type in BIBLE. and screen will now show DIR C:\BIBLE.*.* and now depress ENTER. 12. With cursor, move highlight to BIBLE.<DIR> - (also shows date & time you loaded the programme). 13. Depress ENTER twice - screen will now display your BIBLE directory and you can now retrieve your STUDY file in the usual way and confirm that you did indeed record it. Now exit your word processing programme and go back to the Online BIBLE. - 60 - TO PLACE YOUR DESIRED CROSS REFERENCE VERSES INTO YOUR STUDY FILE: 14. Move cursor into PASSAGE DISPLAY. 15. Depress ENTER - screen will show ENTER REF. 16. Type in desired passage reference such as JO 1:1 17. Depress ENTER - screen will display specified passages. 18. Place cursor on passage for which you want cross references - for example, John 1:1. 19. Note options at bottom of displayed screen. 20. Depress F10, CROSS REFERENCES. screen - (some 60+ cross references). 22. You can page through these and study these cross references and decide which ones you want to place in your STUDY. 23. To select desired cross references, place cursor on desired verse such as GE 1:1 and depress F2. 24. Bottom of screen will display ENTER VERSE LIST FILE NAME: VERSES.1ST. 25. Depress ENTER - screen will show ADD TO VERSE LIST? YES 26. Since this is the first cross reference verse in your list, "cursor" in NO and this then becomes the first verse in your list - depress ENTER. 27. Move your cursor to your second desired cross reference verse such as PR 8:22 and depress F2. 28. Bottom of screen will again display ENTER VERSE LIST FILE NAME: VERSES.1ST 29. Depress ENTER - screen will show ADD TO VERSE LIST? YES 30. Depress ENTER. 31. Repeat steps 23 - 30 for each desired cross reference verse. 32. Then depress ESC. 33. Move to GET VERSE LIST with cursor. 34. Depress ENTER - bottom of screen will show ENTER VERSE LIST FILE NAME: VERSES 1ST. 35. Depress ENTER. 36. Move back to VERSE LIST PRINT. 37. Depress ENTER - screen now displays PRINT OPTIONS. 38. In the FORMAT TEXT change YES to NO in same manner as described on page 1, instruction 7. 39. Move down to PRN and delete PRN. 40. Type in STUDY and depress ENTER twice. 41. Screen will display REPLACE FILE? YES. 42. Change to NO and depress ENTER. 43. Screen displays ADD TO FILE? YES. 44. Depress ENTER. These verses have now been added to your STUDY. TO ADD GREEK LEXICON EXPLANATIONS TO YOUR STUDY: 45. Depress ESC to remove popup menu from screen, with desired passages on screen, for example John 1:1, depress F5 to display STRONG NUMBERS. 46. Select first word on which the Greek lexicon explanation is desired - for example, BEGINNING (746). 47. Depress ESC. 48. Move to WORD DEFINITION(display, not print) and depress ENTER. Bottom of screen will display ENTER STRONG'S NUMBER. - 61 - 49. Type in number, for example 746 - depress ENTER. 50. Screen will display lexicon. 51. To add to your STUDY: a. Depress ESC - move to WORD DEFINITION (print) - depress ENTER. b. Screen will display PRINT OPTIONS.enter desired STRONG NUMBER, for example 746 - depress ENTER, depress ENTER again. c. Screen will display REPLACE FILE? YES but change YES to NO or you will wipe out your previous STUDY file - depress ENTER. d. Screen will then display ADD TO FILE? YES, again depress ENTER. You have now added this to your STUDY and you can continue on in the same way, adding scriptures, cross references, and lexicon explanations to your STUDY. Then you can go to WORD PERFECT or whatever word processing programme you have and add your own commentary and remarks to the right places to prepare a complete lesson in the order in which you desire it. This same Bible study can be prepared with fewer steps using the Quick Print F9 key as described in Section 13.9. Gordon Jarnagin made this sample study to help you. GOD'S SIMPLE PLAN OF SALVATION My Friend: I am asking you the most important question of life. Your joy or your sorrow for all eternity depends upon it. The question is: Are you saved? I mean ... are you sure you will go to Heaven when you die? It is not: Are you a member of some church? ... but, Are you saved? It is not: How good are you? ... but, are you saved? No one can enjoy the blessings of God, nor go to Heaven without being saved. Jesus said to Nicodemus in John 3:7 "ye must be born again." God gives us in His Word the only plan for Salvation. The plan is simple! You can be saved today. First, my friend you must realise you are a sinner. "There is none righteous, no, not one." (Romans 3:10) "For there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:22,23) There is no chance to be saved unless you come to realise you are a sinner. Because you are a sinner, you are condemned to die. "For the wages of sin is death." (Romans 6:23). "Sin ... bringeth forth death." (James 1:15). This means separation from God, in hell, forever. How terrible. Yes, my friend, but it is true. But God loved you so much that he gave His only begotten son, Jesus Christ, as your substitute, Who bore your sin, and died in your place. "He hath made Him [Jesus] to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." (2 Corinthians 5:21). "Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." (1 Peter 2:24). Jesus had to die. He had to shed His blood. "For the life of the flesh is in the blood." (Leviticus 17:11). "Without shedding of blood is no remission." (Hebrews 9:22). Now we cannot understand how our sin was laid upon Jesus, but God says in His Word that it was. So your sin, my friend, was laid upon Jesus and He died in your place. It is true. God cannot lie. - 62 - The Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas: "What must I do to be saved?" "And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." (Acts 16:31). Simply believe on Him as the one who bore your sin, died in your place, was buried and was raised for your justification. Now call upon Him. "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Romans 10:13). The first prayer for a sinner to pray is given in Luke 18:13 "God be merciful to me a sinner." Now you are a sinner and surely you are sorry because of it. Right now, wherever you are, lift your heart to God in prayer. It does not take a long, loud prayer, for God is anxious to save you. Just say: " Oh, God, I am a sinner, I am a sinner, I am sorry, I repent; have mercy upon me, and save me for Jesus' sake." Now just take Him at His word. "For whosoever [that includes you] shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Romans 10:13). Whosoever ... shall be saved (not might nor can) but shall be saved. Just take God at His word. When you have done what He has asked, claim salvation by faith, according to His Word. Believe and you shall be saved. No church, no lodge, no good works, no one but Jesus only can save you. The simple plan of salvation is: you are a sinner, and because you are a sinner, you must die or else believe on Christ, who was your substitute, who died in your place, and who was buried and raised again. Just call upon God, realising you are a sinner and ask Him to have mercy upon you and save you for Jesus sake. Then just take Him at His word and by faith claim salvation. You say, "Surely that is not all that is necessary to do to be saved." Yes it is, absolutely all. Thank God many have been won to Christ by this simple plan. It is scriptural. It is God's plan. My friend, believe it and follow it today. Now is the time -- today is the day. "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." (2 Corinthians 6:2). "Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." (Proverbs 27:1). If it is not perfectly clear, read it over and over until you understand it. Do not lay this tract down until you do. Your soul is worth more than all the world. "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Mark 8:36, 37). Be sure you are saved. You need salvation above everything else. If you lose your soul you miss heaven and lose all. God help you to be saved today. He will save you and also keep you! "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." (1 Corinthians 10:13). Do not trust your feelings. They change. Stand on God's promises. They never change. After you are saved there are three things to practice daily for spiritual growth: - 63 - Pray -- you talk to God. READ your Bible -- God talks to you. Witness -- You talk for God. Then you should be baptised and unite with a Bible believing church. "Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 10:32). AUTHOR -- FORD PORTER If you are saved, send us a word that we may rejoice with you. LIFEGATE INC. Box 1771, Martinsville, IN. 46151 Copyright -- Robert Ford Porter, 1956, Used by permission. This tract may not be reproduced independently of this manual without permission. - 64 -