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From: bes@tybalt.caltech.edu (Behnam Sadeghi)
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Subject: on-line Quran
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Date: 26 Sep 90 07:08:28 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

Thanks.  Obviously I misunderstood the question.

Behnam Sadeghi