Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!decwrl!sun-barr!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: hall@vice.ico.tek.com (Hal Lillywhite) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: LDS (Mormon) Religion Message-ID: Date: 27 Aug 90 02:40:22 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 31 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article hall@vice.ico.tek.com (Hal Lillywhite) writes (and writes and writes :-): >[Stephen Simmons writes] >>P.S. Does any one have a computerized version of the BoM? >Yes (not me but it exists). You can get it along with the KJV >Bible, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price and a search >"engine" for $70 or so from the church. You are also allowed to >copy it from a friend if he has one provided you buy a license and >instruction manual for about $35 (the "engine" is a commercial >product from I don't know who and they are concerned with making >money). If interested the best way to find this is probably to find >some local LDS member who is into computers. Call the church listed >in the phone book to start. Well, about the day after I wrote this I got some email which I unfortunately threw away. The cost of this program is changing drastically for the better, it is now available for $34 including all diskettes. The license only cost is now $10. A new version (supposed to be much improved) will be available about the first of the year. Registered owners of the old version will receive the new version free. My now anonymous informant also tells me that there is a non-church version avaliable also but I don't remember the company which produces it. This version takes less disk space (about 4 Meg vs 12) but is apparently less user friendly than the church version. He has found a few typos in the non-church version but not in the church version (though it's hard to imagine a work of this magnitude having none at all). If he is reading perhaps he can post a full comparison with ordering information.