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- THE SEEKER
-
- 2-14-1989 In the Public Domain.
- Written with Mark Williams C
- A program for the FREE study of
- the Bible, written by Larry Mears.
- Huntsville, Alabama home of SPACE CAMP
-
- "Seeks words and phrases up to
- one line long. Will prompt user
- for floppy insertion, but
- hard drive highly recommended."
-
-
- The Bible text came from MS-DOS public domain disks. I can not vouch
- for the accuracy and completeness of any of it. I only wrote the SEEKER
- program and intergrated the chapter files into book files. The program is
- driven by non-GEM menus and is pretty self explanatory. The are some things
- I guess I should mention, set up the SEEKER.CNF file properly you will not be
- using the "[A] Seek in one Book" function. The SEEKER.CNF file tells the
- SEEKER program where to look for what books, this makes the function
- "[B] Seek in selected books" much faster and powerful than the [A] function
- which is hampered by GEM. The SEEKER.CNF file can be customized to suit your
- needs. There are some limitations...
-
- 1) The first line of the SEEKER.CNF file must not have a empty line
- before it.
-
- 2) The drive path and file name must not exceed one line.
-
- 3) Only 66 lines will be read in, so you can't split a book up.
-
-
- The system defaults are:
-
- Search for exact CASE matches.
-
- Printer OFF.
-
- Prompts between matches on.
-
- Drive A: setup in ASCII text file "SEEKER.CNF",
- change to C: or above for hard drive.
-
- "You must create these folders and put the
- proper Book files within them.
- If you make different named folders then you
- must change the SEEKER.CNF file to suit!"
-
- A:\BIBLE\OLD_TEST.KJV\
- A:\BIBLE\NEW_TEST.KJV\
-
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-
- The control S,Q,E and Z functions work anytime the Seeking prompt is
- displayed and when a search is actually taking place, but not while a book is
- being loaded in, whether the prompts between matches is toggled on or not.
-
- ^S suspend output
- ^Q continue output
- ^E Skip to the next book
- ^Z Abort search
-
- ^C May terminate the program if typed while a file is being loaded.
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- When using function "[B] Seek in selected Books" enter selections
- chained like so:
-
- Q18F(RETURN)
-
- That would search through Matthew then jump to Genesis then to Ruth and lastly
- II Thessalonians. You can enter 1 or up to 66 books to search through. 66 is
- the number of books in the Bible so unless you want to search to same book twice
- 66 is enough. The keys that are assigned to each book of the Bible are in
- direct relationship to the path\filename lines in the SEEKER.CNF file.
- If you take the last line of the SEEKER.CNF file and exchange it with the
- first line when you select GENESIS you will actually get Revelation. So
- change the pathnames and drive identifiers if need be but don't make chaos
- out of established order.
-
- Note: If you stick in any old disk and search through say a ZMAG with the
- "[A] Seek in one book" and then afterwards stick a BIBLE disk back in
- and try to use the "[B] Seek in selected books" function it will not
- find the file. To cure this just select the "[A]" function with the
- BIBLE disk in and then CANCEL and go back over to the "[B]" function.
- That'll make it reread the directory and everything will be back to
- normal.
-
- If you are using floppies, I am, keep the files in a order as close as possible
- to the order in the SEEKER.CNF file, otherwise you will be swapping disks more
- often. You can just flip open the Bible and look at the order the books
- appear in, don't arrange them on your disks in alphabetic order!!!! The Seeker
- program has a function to load and search the whole Bible or New or
- Old testaments automatic in Biblical order. Using this function with files
- arranged in alphabetic will swap you to death! You may want to use 10 or 11
- sector format. I recommend double sided 80 track 10 sector format.
-
- Just put the files on the disks like this:
- BIBLE is a folder and OLD_TEST.KJV is a folder within BIBLE and the text files
- themselves are within the folders OLD_TEST.KJV or NEW_TEST.KJV.
-
- ***disk 1
- A:\BIBLE\OLD_TEST.KJV\GENESIS
- A:\BIBLE\OLD_TEST.KJV\EXODUS
- A:\BIBLE\OLD_TEST.KJV\LEVITICU.S
- A:\BIBLE\OLD_TEST.KJV\NUMBERS
- ***disk 2
- A:\BIBLE\OLD_TEST.KJV\DEUTERON.OMY
- A:\BIBLE\OLD_TEST.KJV\JOSHUA
- A:\BIBLE\OLD_TEST.KJV\JUDGES
- A:\BIBLE\OLD_TEST.KJV\RUTH
- A:\BIBLE\OLD_TEST.KJV\I_SAMUEL
- A:\BIBLE\OLD_TEST.KJV\II_SAMUE.L
- A:\BIBLE\OLD_TEST.KJV\I_KINGS
- etc. etc. etc....
-
- SEEKER1.ARC only contains the SEEKER program and GENESIS look for
- other Bible text files in following SEEKER2.ARC thru SEEKER19.ARC.
- Updates to the SEEKER program itself will appear in SEEKER_A-Z.ARC
- files, most current version is SEEKER_D as of 3-12-1989.
-
- That's about it. I can be reached at HAUG BBS 205-461-7893 and please do not
- try to cash in on this work, although recoup cost, a minimul charge for
- distribution is fine for clubs or businesses distributing PD Software.
- God's word has been freely given, let's keep it as close to free as possible.
-
- Thanks,
- Larry Gene Mears
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