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 next 9901
09901
 Topics not covered in the Manual
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 Authorised Version Notes                                  9951
 Authorised Version Variations                             9952
 Books you should have in your Library                     9902
 Bulletin Board Support                                    9909
 History of the Online Bible                               9908
 Licensing Online Bible Material for Commercial Use        9906
 Preparation of Englishman's Strong's Numbers              9903
 Software Distribution Procedure                           9904
 Updating Spelling Dictionary for Word Perfect             9907
 Using DOS 5 & 6 Effectively                               9905
09902
 Basic Christian Resource Material
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 We recommend that all Bible students have at least the following
 books in their library besides their Bible.

 1. THEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY of the NEW TESTAMENT (CBD #2404 $44.95
    The 1992 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 word studies.

 2. THEOLOGICAL WORDBOOK of the OLD TESTAMENT (CBD #86312 $44.95) The
    1992 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.

 4. NEW MATTHEW HENRY COMMENTARY (CBD #75516 $39.95) This classic has
    just been redone in easier to read print.

 5) HOW THEN SHOULD WE LIVE? by Francis A. Schaeffer, Published by
    Crossway Books, Westchester, Ill., 1983. In school you were
    taught what happened in history. Schaeffer tells us why! He traces
    the rise and decline of western thought and culture and the
    breakdown of the Christian ethos. One of the few books written in
    this century that is worth rereading.

    These books are available from either of these two stores.

 Christian Book Distributors     Good Book Services
 P.O. Box 6000                   Priority Works
 Peabody, MA                     Gurdry Lane, Bridport
 01961-6000                      Dorset, DT6 3RJ
                                 United Kingdom

 Tel: [phone]             Tel: [phone]
 Fax: [phone]

 Dr. C. D. Cole wrote a three volume set called, "Definition of Doctrines".
 He is a master at explaining the doctrines in a manner the layman can readily
 understand. This set is available from:

     Byrant Station Baptist Church,
     3175 Briar Hill Road,
     Lexington, Kentucky,
     40516

 The price for the set was in 1994 was $8.40 plus shipping. The booklet on
 "Election" costs about a dollar.

 Prices shown are for the winter of 1994. Please verify the prices
 and shipping charges before ordering.
09903
 Englishman's Strong's Numbers Revised for Version 6
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 Introduction
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
 In version 6, we completely reworked the Strong's numbers. The
 number set you now have is a super-set of the Englishman's Greek
 and Hebrew concordance and is the most accurate set of Strong's
 numbers in existence.  These numbers are so accurate we use the
 term "Englishman's Strong's Numbers" to describe them. This
 allows you to distinguish between ours and other sets of
 Strong's numbers. The average set now used by most Bible
 programs contains about 35000 errors or omissions.  We are the
 only organisation that will pay you $10 for each error you find
 in our numbers. Read on for the details.

 General Observations and Problems
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 We used the Englishman's Greek and Hebrew Concordance (keyed to
 Strong's) published by Baker Book House. We found no errors in the
 Greek Concordance.  The main Hebrew Concordance was also free from
 error. We found a handful of errors in the name concordance at the
 end of the Hebrew concordance. These were obvious and were
 corrected. Strong's system worked perfectly for the NT.  The OT had
 some problems that are inherent in the Hebrew itself.

 a) Lack of capitalisation. This causes ambiguity in assigning
    numbers. For example:

      0120, 0121 are both the same Hebrew word, Adam or Man. The
         number you assign in some cases in arbitrary. We followed
         the Strong's concordance in this case. In Ho.  6:7 the word
         is translated "men" but the marginal reading in the AV is
         "Adam". Both are correct.

 b) Hebrew synonyms. These are words that are assigned different
    Strong's numbers but are written exactly the same in the Hebrew.
    The English equivalent for the Hebrew words given in Strong's
    lexicon in his concordance, was used to sort these out.

      Proper Place names

      Beth-el 01004, 0430 This is composed of two Hebrew words ,
         "house", and "God".  Sometimes it is translated as
         Beth-el and other times as "house of God". The context
         would determine it. The NASB translates this as Beth-el
         in Jud.  20:18, 26, 31, 21:1. Gill disagrees with this
         and gives excellent reasons for it. To be safe, we
         double listed this using the number 8677 as follows
         "house <01004> of God <0430> <08677> <01008>" This way
         no matter how you search you should find both.

      "Waters of Strife" in Ps. 106:32 Eze. 47:19,48:28 was
         treated in a similar manner as Beth-el.

 c) Hebrew synonyms. Sometimes two different Hebrew words are spelled
    exactly the same way. We followed the English renderings for each
    number as given in the back of the Strong's concordance to sort
    these out. Fortunately, very few numbers have this problem.
    Example 7122, 7125, we assigned 7125 to the Qal Infinitive and
    7122 to all the other forms.

    This is a list of problem numbers.

      424,425
      504,505
      520,521
      732,736
      739,740,741
      794,798
      811,812
      853,854
      881,885
      1208,1210
      1252,1253
      2015,2017
      2158,2159
      2167,2168
      2172,2173
      2333,2334
      2336,2337
      2506,2511
      2603,2589
      2734,8474
      3684,3685
      3738,3739
      4803,4178
      5975,5976
      6145,5892
      6148,6149
      6362,6358
      6416,6417
      6822,6823
      6957,6978
      6995,6996
      7093,7078
      7122,7125
      7478,7479
      7582,7583
      7601,8155
      7819,7829
      8231,8235
      8388,8379
      8378,8379
      8427,8228
      8451,8452

 d) The verb parsings for the OT come from the Hebrew concordance.
    These differ at times from what the BDB lexicon uses especially
    on the rarer forms. Since we found no errors in Wigram's work and
    errors in BDB we followed Wigram's material.

 In some of the more difficult cases, we used Gill's Expositor to
 sort out the Hebrew. (9 Volumes 1760) What John Gill forgot about
 Greek and Hebrew is more than anyone today will ever know about
 these subjects.

 Strong's Number Correction Procedure
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 The following procedure was used to correct the Strong's numbers.

 1) The contents of the New Englishman's Hebrew Concordance was
    entered using topics 20001 to 28674. Each unique Strong's
    number was entered as a topic in verse note format. The verb
    parsings were entered as comments in the topic.

      e.g. Strong's Number 7 was stored in topic 20007 as

                 * perish
                 * p'al future
                 # Jer 10:11
                 * aphel infinitive
                 # Da 2:12,24 7:26
                 * aphel future
                 # Da 2:18,24
                 * hophal preterite
                 # Da 7:11

 2) A computer generated list of Strong's numbers was created for
    each verse in the Bible. This was compared against the text and
    all differences printed for correction.

 3) All kithiv, qere, and multiple entries for a number were noted
    using numbers 8675 through 8679. See the lexicon definitions for
    these numbers.

 4) Verb parsings were summarised and assigned numbers 8680 through
    8809. These numbers were then added to all 71000 verbs in the Old
    Testament.

 5) If a proper name was composed of several Hebrew words, generally,
    we listed only the Strong's number for the proper name. e.g.
    Beth-el.  The number for "Beth" and  "el" would not be listed,
    but the number for Beth-el would.

 6) The main Hebrew concordance was very well done; we found no other
    errors. The name concordance was not done as well and the numbers
    were sometimes incorrectly assigned.

 The following are possible sources of errors:

 a) If the concordance listed a Hebrew word more than once but used
    only one line in the concordance. In typing in the text, the
    entry should have been made more than once but may not have been.
    Our proof reading of the English text should have caught most of
    these.

 b) If the same verb occurs more than once in a verse, the verb
    parsings may be crossed. This was triple checked so is not
    likely.

 c) The Hebrew concordance lists several numbers for a grouping.  We
    may have misassigned the numbers.

 The New Testament was done in a similar fashion.

 1) The contents of the New Englishman's Greek Concordance was
    entered using topics 10001 to 15624. Each unique Strong's number
    was entered as a topic in verse note format.

 2) A computer generated list of Strong's numbers was created for
    each verse in the New Testament. This was compared against the
    text and all differences printed for correction.

 3) Some multiple entries were noted using the suffix number 5625.

 4) Sometimes Strong listed a Greek phrase as one number, e.g.  3363,
    3364.  The Englishman's Concordance often listed these under
    these numbers and the individual Greek words as well.  We chose
    to list the number used to represent a phrase.

 5) J.B. Smith's Concordance frequency counts were checked for
    each number. All numbers agreed except

         846 - short by 205
         848 - short by 12  (Smith missed at least one, Mr. 9:16)
        1437 - short by 53
        1519 - short by 3
        1722 - over by 16
        2443 - short by 41
        3739 - short by 85
        3756 - over by 82

 In checking the Greek, we found errors in Smith's work so did not
 continue to check these eight categories. We have yet to see a word
 study on these words so this should cause no problems for the user.
 Since we added the Strong's numbers for the epilogues to the Pauline
 Epistles, we adjusted the Concordance counts accordingly. We found
 about a dozen categories in J.B. Smith's work that were inaccurate,
 usually short by one. We corrected these in our lexicon.

 6) In the New Testament the following numbers are omitted.

       1418 - used only as a prefix and not indexed by Strong
       2717 - omitted by Strong
       3203 to 3302 - omitted by Strong
       4452 - used only as a part of a word and not indexed by
              Strong

 7) The verb parsings were done as follows:
    a) A complete list of all the unique words in the Greek text
       was compiled.
    b) Using the "New Analytical Greek Lexicon" by Perschbacher, each
       word was parsed and assigned a Strong's number. An errata was
       sent to Dr. Perschbacher for correction when the lexicon is
       reprinted.
    c) About 6 spelling errors in the Online Bible Greek texts were
       corrected.
    d) The verbs in the Stephanus Greek text were parsed using this
       list. The Strong's number set was used to eliminate duplicate
       entries.
    e) The resulting set was moved into the English text
       electronically. If a parsing could not be assigned accurately,
       it was placed in the verse in the same order it occurred in the
       Greek NT.
    f) All 1900 ambiguous parsings were checked using Green's
       Interlinear to verify the parsings occurred in the same order
       in English as they did in the Greek. The following is a
       list of difficult parsings found in the NT.

            Mt  11:21 1096
            Mt  11:23 1096
            Mt  23:13 1525
            Joh 13:15 4160
            Joh 17:2  1325
            Ac   7:35 1492
            Ac  13:39 1344
            1Th  3:5  3985
            1Jo  2:6  4043
            Re  18:6  2767

    g) A list of about 1700 multiple parsings for a verb was
       compiled, and the extraneous entries removed by examining the
       context in the Greek.  The parsings for some verbs differ from
       Timothy Friberg's "Analytical Greek New Testament" in some
       places. Friberg based his work on the Nestle's Greek Text not
       the Scrivener text. We followed the old Davidson Analytical
       Lexicon in most cases and only occasionally referred to
       Friberg's work to get a second opinion. Some parsings were
       clearly ambiguous and in such cases both parsings were
       retained. The Greek makes perfect sense no matter which
       parsing you choose.

 The following are possible sources of errors:

 a) If the concordance listed a Greek word more than once but
    used only one line in the concordance. In typing in the
    text, the entry should have been made more than once but may
    not have been. Our cross check with the J.B. Smith's frequency
    counts should have all these types of errors.

 b) If the same verb occurs more than once in a verse, the verb
    parsings may be crossed.

 To correct the Old and New Testament represents several man-years of
 work and a great expense on our part.  Statistically, we estimate
 there are about 50 errors left in the Old Testament out of 229,000
 numbers and 71,000 verb parsings. We have accepted the Hebrew
 concordance as accurate, however, we corrected some errors in its
 Strong's numbers.  Also note that Wigram used a different method to
 parse verbs than the Brown Driver Briggs Lexicon. We followed
 Wigram's. If Hebrew scholars cannot decide how to do it, what hope
 is there for the rest of us?  Please report any errors to us. The
 first person to report an error will receive $10 for each incorrect
 number. If two categories are reversed, we will pay a maximum of
 $25. In addition, when we correct the numbers, you will be sent the
 corrected text module free on Oct 1, 1994.

 For the Greek 121,000 numbers and 28,000 verb parsings we expect you
 to find no errors or omissions except in the eight numbers so noted.
 The same offer holds for the New Testament except for these eight
 numbers, 846, 848, 1437, 1519, 1722, 2443, 3739, and 3756. All
 errors must be received by October 1 1994 to qualify. The "Read-Me"
 on the Mini-Menu latest install disk, will contain a list of the errors
 found to date and the names of the persons who found them. This offer
 does not apply to the NKJV text or to the exact placement of the numbers.
 On the latter there are bound to be differences of opinion.

 If I cannot verify the error report, the Hebrew and Greek professor,
 Dr. M. Robinson, will help me. His decision is final.  Unless
 you know Greek and Hebrew, you are not likely to find any errors.

 Warning:
 ~~~~~~~
 "Englishman's Strong's Numbers" are not in the public domain. All
 commercial Bible programs that use Strong's numbers contain
 thousands of errors.  You do not have the right to use these numbers
 for any commercial purpose without written permission from us.
 Misappropriation of these numbers will be subject to "due process of
 law".

 Write:

    Larry Pierce
    R.R. #2,
    West Montrose, Ont.
    CANADA
    N0B 2V0

 for permission to use these numbers. All our material may be licensed
 for commercial use.

     See topic 9906

 for details.
09904
 Software Distribution
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 To help you distribute the Online Bible we suggest you use
 COPYQM.  This copies disks quickly and accurately. This is the
 next best thing to a disk copying machine.  Note that COPYQM is
 not freeware; Please write or call Sydex for ordering
 information. Cost is about $20.

 Sydex, P.O. Box 5700, Eugene, OR, 97405 or call [phone]

 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
 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.

 Using Different Disk Sizes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Create a new master copy on a different disk size by observing
 the following rules:

 1. Format disks on intended target machine.

 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 option "B" on the "install" menu
    program.  This procedure allows you to either make a
    duplicate set of your masters or create new masters on any
    size of disk media. DO NOT alter the date and time-stamps or
    the install procedure will fail.

 4. Install your new master copy BEFORE you use it to make
    copies for your friends.

 5. Avoid using a high density 5 1/4" drive to copy low density
    disks. This is NOT reliable. If you must, first format the
    low density disks on a low density drive.

 6. Try your new install disks before you distribute them.
09905
 Using MS-DOS 5 or 6 Effectively
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 This section assumes you have a 386/SX or better class machine with
 at least 4 megs of memory. The following material was mined
 painfully from the DOS 5.0 manual and is not obvious. For a new
 machine we recommend the following hardware and software:

    386/DX @ 33 MHZ or better with a 64K memory cache 4 megs of
    memory (70 nano-seconds or faster) Colour VGA monitor with
    .28 dot pitch or smaller, non-interlaced. One 3 1/2 inch High
    Density 1.44 meg floppy 1 100 meg hard drive, (200 - 250 meg
    is better) 2 serial and one parallel port

    Use MS-DOS 5 or 6 or DR DOS 6.0 for the operating system.
    Word Perfect 5.1 or 6.0, the DOS version. This is the most
       popular word processor in the world.

    Mouse is optional but not necessary unless you are using
    Windows.  A 5 1/4 inch drive is really not necessary. Someone
    can easily convert any disk you receive on that obsolete
    format to 3 1/2 inch for you. A /486 is only about 20 per
    cent faster than a similar /386 and is not worth the money
    unless you need the floating point processor.  However, if
    you plan to run OS/2, a /486 may be a better choice.  /486
    motherboards can handle up to 32 megs of memory whereas most
    /386 motherboards can only handle 8 megs on the motherboard.

 Basic Configuration
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Do not partition your hard drive. This just wastes space. DOS 5.0
 handles large hard drives very well. e.g. 250 meg. Make sure your
 shadow RAM is enabled for the memory between 640K and one meg. Have
 your hardware vendor do this for you.

 CONFIG.SYS
 ~~~~~~~~~~
 To get optimal memory usage, use the following as a sample CONFIG.SYS

    device=c:\dos\himem.sys
    device=c:\dos\emm386.exe noems
    dos=high,umb
    break=on
    buffers=40
    files=50
    lastdrive=z
    devicehigh c:\dos\ansi.sys
    devicehigh c:\dos\mouse.sys
    devicehigh c:\dos\setver.exe
    devicehigh c:\dos\smartdrv.sys 256
    devicehigh c:\dos\ramdrive.sys 4096 512 512/e
    shell=c:\command.com c:\ /e:512 /p
    stacks=16,128

 1) Delete MOUSE.SYS line if you do not have a mouse
 2) Delete SMARTDRV.SYS if your hard drive has at least 256K cache

 The rest of the lines are explained in your DOS manual. Using this
 set up you should have about 624,000 bytes of free memory. Use the
 MEM command to determine this.

    MEM

 AUTOEXEC.BAT
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~

 The following is a basic AUTOEXEC.BAT file for DOS 5 or 6.

    @echo off
    rem
    rem RAM DRIVE assumed to be the D: drive
    rem Hard Disk assumed to be the C: drive
    rem
    verify on
    rem
    rem Set up screen colours and prompt
    rem
       prompt $e[0;32;44m$p$g
       echo on
       cls
       echo off
    rem
    rem Set up search path
    rem
       path c:\bible;c:\dos
    rem
    rem Set up keyboard - Load TSR's in high memory
    rem
       lh c:\bible\dosclip.com
       lh c:\dos\doskey.com /bufsize=1024
       lh mode con:rate=32,delay=1
    rem
    rem Create TEMP directory on RAM drive to make programs fly
    rem
       d:
       md temp
       label 386-D-RAM
    rem
    rem Set SET variables to use RAM drive as scratch space
    rem
       rem
       rem MS-DOS products
       rem
          set temp=d:\temp
          set tmp=d:\temp
       rem
       rem Word Perfect
       rem
          set wp=/d-d:\temp
     rem
     rem add the rest of your autoexec batch file here
     rem

 You will need to customise the PATH statement to suit your needs.
 If you load any Terminate and Stay Resident programs (TSR's), use
 the LH command to load them in high memory. To load MENU.EXE in
 directory MYLIB do this.

    lh c:\mylib\menu.exe

 Any parameters you need, place on the same line as MENU.EXE. This
 maximises the amount of memory you will have for running programs.
 Where possible, load the largest TSR's first. Otherwise, DOS will
 fragment the upper memory and you will not get as much loaded as you
 could have.

 DOSSHELL
 ~~~~~~~~

 The DOSSHELL allows you to run multiple programs at once like
 WINDOWS, except each program runs in full screen mode. You do not
 have to strain your eyes looking at a tiny window of text. Unlike
 WINDOWS, almost all programs will run under the shell without
 modifications or expensive upgrades. It is easy to use. If you have
 the TEMP variable set in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file to point to the RAM
 disk, ensure you RAM disk is at least 1.5 megs in size. Otherwise,
 buy more memory, or set the TEMP variable to point to the hard
 drive. Start all TSR's before you start the shell.

 1) Remove any non-standard mouse; the shell works only with true MS
    mouse.  Your really do not need a mouse at all to run the shell.

 2) Type: DOSSHELL

 3) Activate the task swapper if this is the first time you have used
    the shell.

    3a) Press F10
    3b) Type O
    3c) Type E to select "Enable Task Swapper"
    3d) If there is no "." beside this option press ENTER,
        otherwise press ESC.

    You only enable the swapper the very first time you use it. After
    that it will always be enabled.

 4) To run a program

    4a) Press F10, ENTER
    4b) Press R, to select RUN
    4c) Enter the command line needed to run the program to press ENTER.
        The command may be a batch file.
    4d) To run another COMMAND.COM do not press SHIFT F9 but type,
        F10, ENTER, R. At the command prompt, type:

            command /e:512

        This ensures the command processor you start has 512 bytes on
        environment space, more than enough for most applications.

 5) To return to the shell

    5a) Hold down the ALT key and press the TAB key until you are
        back to the shell.
    5b) To start another program, repeat step 4 when you are back in
        the shell.
    5c) To switch to another program, repeat step 5a until the program
        is selected.

 6) To shutdown the shell

    6a) Select each program running under the shell and terminate it
        normally. Press ENTER to return to the shell.
    6b) When all the programs have been terminated

        6b1) Press F10, ENTER
        6b2) Press X, to exit

 The shell does lots more than this  but this is all you really need
 to know.


 DOSCLIP
 ~~~~~~~
 Purpose: A TSR utility that provides Windows-like cut-and-paste
          facilities to applications running under the DOS 5.0 shell,
          permitting transfer of text blocks between two applications.
          This will not paste into graphics programs.

 Format:  DOSCLIP /B /U

 Remarks: DOSCLIP is loaded from the DOS prompt and requires 10K when
          memory resident. The optional /B switch parameter is
          required only with video boards that do not conform to the
          IBM video standard.  Entering DOSCLIP with the /U option
          uninstalls the program, subject to the usual TSR
          limitations.

          The default pop-up hotkey is Alt+Ctrl-D, which brings up
          DOSCLIP over the application and replaces the underline
          cursor with a block-style cursor used to define an on-screen
          text area to be saved to a clipboard. The arrow keys, PgUP
          and PgDN, Home, End keys are used to move the DOSCLIP
          cursor; Ctrl-Left Arrow and Ctrl-Right Arrow moves it
          laterally in eight character jumps. To block an area, place
          the cursor over one corner and move it to the diagonally
          opposite corner while holding down the Shift key.  After
          releasing the Shift key, the defined area is saved to the
          clipboard by pressing Enter or the D key.

          A defined text area can be pasted into another application
          by pressing Alt+Ctrl-V or by bringing up DOSCLIP with
          Alt+Ctrl-D and then pressing V.

          DOSCLIP should be loaded before your other applications, in
          your AUTOEXEC.BAT file as shown in our sample AUTOEXEC.BAT
          file.

          DOSCLIP was written by Douglas Boling and was described by
          the April 14, 1992 issue of PC Magazine. The program is
          copyrighted.  You may not charge for making copies for
          others. Making copies for any commercial purpose is
          prohibited.  The program is included free with the Online
          Bible Install disk for use by interested users. DOSCLIP
          contains additional material, which we did not include. For
          more information write PC Magazine.

 WINDOWS
 ~~~~~~~
    With DOSCLIP and the DOS shell, the need for Windows is greatly
 reduced.  We now use OS/2 Release 2.1 instead of DOS and are very
 impressed.  Windows & DOS applications run under OS/2 without the
 problems of a DOS environment except they normally run faster. OS/2
 really multi-tasks unlike Windows. (Try formatting a floppy or doing
 a large print job under Windows and see how transparent it is!) DOS
 really shows it age when you try add CD-ROM drivers, network
 drivers, miltimedia extensions, or SCSI drivers. You end up adding
 all sorts of memory managers to make it work.  The next major
 version of Online Bible will be oriented toward OS/2 Presentation
 Manager Environment. We plan to sub-contract a Windows version that
 will use the same file format as the DOS version.
09906
 Licensing
 ~~~~~~~~~
 The following material may be licensed for public use. There are
 two classes of users.

 1) Non-Commercial: You allow your material to be freely copied,
    and solicit no payment or shareware fee. You must have
    license to use our material with yours. However, there is no
    cost to you for this.

 2) Commercial: You are not a non-commercial user. You must have
    a license and pay a royalty for using our material for each
    copy of your material that is sold. Copies given away gratis
    for any reason are exempt from royalties. Also copies sold
    for at less than 35 per cent of the standard retail cost to
    theological students, pastors, and missionaries are exempt
    from royalties.

 Material that can be Licensed:
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 1) 1769 Authorised Version, with marginal readings, with Webster
    update, Englishman's Strong's Numbers and verb parsings plus
    Greek and Hebrew lexicon. If you have a commercial Bible
    program with Strong's numbers, you have a mess. Send us any
    sample of text and we will return an error list to you to
    prove what we are saying. The average Bible text with
    Strong's has between 15,000 and 35,000 errors in the numbers.
    We corrected over 15,000 errors in the Version 5 text alone.

 2) We have other material in the format of topics or verse
    notes. Also we have many foreign and exotic translations.

 3) Online Bible Search Engine with your custom text.

 Write for a current list of available material and terms.

    Larry Pierce
    R. R. 2.
    West Montrose, Ont.
    Canada
    N0B 2V0

 Because most of the work for the Online Bible was done by
 volunteers, it is not right that we should profit from their
 labours.  Therefore, all electronic rights have been assigned to
 the a charity in the US and all royalties are paid directly to
 them not us.
09907
 Bible Dictionary of Unique Words
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 Some changes may be required to update the version 6.0 Word Perfect
 spelling dictionary. Consult their documentaion for the requied
 changes. The following documentation applies to 5.1 Word Perfect.

 The file, BIBLE.DCT, in the Bible directory, 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 was complied using the English
 not the American version of Word Perfect. Hence some words may be
 flagged by American users. 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.


 Word Perfect 6.x
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 If you are using Word Perfect 6.x, you must order the utility
 SPELLER.EXE from Word Perfect. This is a free utility from Word
 Perfect. This program allows you to chain third party dictionaries that
 are already in Word Perfect 6.0 format to one of the dictionaries in
 Word Perfect. You import the BIBLE.DCT into Word Perfect 6.x, then use
 SPELLER.EXE and follow the on screen instructions.
09908
 History of the Online Bible
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 Oct. 1987 - AV text obtained from Public Brand Software
 Mar. 1988 - Version 1
           - AV text only and basic searching and printing facilities
 Mar. 1989 - Version 2
           - pull-down user menu interface
           - NIV text added
 Oct. 1989 - Version 3
           - NT Strong's numbers and Thayer's Lexicon added
           - Verse Note facility added
 Mar. 1990 - Version 4
           - AV text certified as accurate by Sharp Electronics in Japan
           - OT Strong's numbers and Strong's Lexicon
           - NT Cross References
 Oct. 1990 - Version 5
           - new install procedure
           - Brown Driver Briggs Hebrew Lexicon replaces Strong's
           - topics facility added
           - OT Cross references
 Between Jan 1. 1991 and Oct. 1992
           - Larry Pierce quits his job to work full-time on Online Bible
           - Greek & Hebrew modules created that display actual
             Greek and Hebrew
           - 1989 Spanish RVA module
           - 2 Dutch texts module
           - 2 German texts module
           - Combined AV-Creole Module created
           - 1833 Webster Bible scanned in
           - 1890 Darby Bible and Notes scanned in
           - 1910 Louis Segond French text created
           - 1910 Louis Segond keyed to Englishman's Strong's numbers
           - Operation Mobilisation mass distributes French Online Bible in
             France
           - Macintosh Version 1.0 beta tested at selected sites.
           - Strong's numbers corrected using Greek and Hebrew Englishman's
             concordances.
           - all verbs parsed in Greek, French and English Bible
           - international dealer network setup in
                U.K, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa
 Oct. 1992 - Version 6
           - new improved very simple install procedure
           - new manual published based on NIV BibleMaster manual in England
           - Combined English and European Languages with Englishman's
             Strong's numbers created for first time in history.
           - The only accurate set of Strong's numbers in the world
             published under the name of Englishman's Strong's numbers
           - frequency counts now in OT lexicon
           - over 5000 topics added to Online Bible
           - Macintosh Version 2.1 of Online Bible distributed, supports all
             version 6 features of the IBM Online Bible.
           - alternate notes, topics and definitions new supported
           - hyper-text features added to notes facility
 1993
           - "People New Testament Commentary" by B.W.Johnson
           - Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Daily devotional
           - Mac version 2.0 released
           - Gill's 7500 page Expositor project started

 Future plans
           - key the Greek and Hebrew Bibles to Englishman's Strong's
             numbers and parse every word
           - add new language modules
           - add new notes and topics modules
           - migrate Online Bible to OS/2 Release 2.1 Presentation Manager
             environment. MS Windows runs better under OS/2 than under DOS.
           - migrate Online Bible to Windows 3.1

 The Online Bible was the first and is still the only Bible program in the
 world that allows you to freely copy it. Based firmly on the principle of
 grace not greed, this has enabled the Online Bible to be the most popular
 Bible search program. The best things in life are free and you should not
 try to commercialise the Bible. New languages and features are added almost
 every other month. Send for the latest catalogue by writing your closest
 international distributor. See the To-Order option on the Mini-Menu.
09909
 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:

     scholar bb             - or -         call scholar 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:

     scholar bb bios        - or -         call scholar 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. The ESC key is mapped to "Control \" and
 "Control C" is mapped to "Control _".

 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.
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