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From: sorensen@hstbme.mit.edu (A. Gregory Sorensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Bible software for the PC
Keywords: Freeware, Shareware, not King James Version
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Date: 20 May 88 18:51:10 GMT
References: <557@ndcheg.UUCP> <199@ncrats.UUCP> <3484@omepd>
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In article <3484@omepd> randys@mipon2.UUCP (Randy Steck) writes:
>In article <199@ncrats.UUCP> bartkus@Atlanta.NCR.COM (Patrick Bartkus) writes:
>>In article <557@ndcheg.UUCP> eggers@ndcheg.UUCP (Mark Eggers) writes:
>>>I have a user who is looking for some public domain/shareware
>>>software for an IBM PC that is related to scholarly Bible work.
>>
>
>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) has a full King
>James Version available with an excellent Topical Guide included for use on
>a PC.  This includes most of the strictly Mormon scriptures, but appears to
>be very useful in searching for references or threads in just the Bible
>also.

I purchased this program, and like it quite a bit.  $63.50, although
you can get full documentation and the right to copy the 30+ disks
for less (about $40).  It is fast, complete, user-modifiable, and allows
complex searches and index generation.  It is basically the run-time
part of WordCruncher (reviewed in Byte last ?November?).

It takes up about 12 Mb if you load on the (optional) Dictionary and
Thesaraus.  The Church has an 800 number.  I actually used the Beta
version before the April release and this has a much nicer interface.

Greg Sorensen