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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