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From: goer@midway.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Re: The Holy Quran on computer
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Date: 24 Sep 90 13:11:45 GMT
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In article <1990Sep21.131858.16824@nntp-server.caltech.edu> bes@tybalt.caltech.edu (Behnam Sadeghi) writes:
>In reply to the gentleman who asked about copies of the Quran on computers,
>here's an excerpt from an advertisement in the Winter 1987 issue of "Minaret":
>
>  QURANBASE
>
>  The QURANBASE program is a database containing the entire Quranic
>  text-- Yusuf Ali's Translation....

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the gentleman was
looking for a machine-readable Quran, and not a canned database (unless
that canned database includes a machine readable text; if so, surely it
cannot be copyrighted, and can therefore be send around to anyone who
wants it).

-Richard