From: rfbarham@flash.net (Richard F. Barham)
Subject: bible (BRS 4.00 to 4.00a patch)
Date: Tue,  7 Apr 1998 12:36:50 GMT

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If you've used Chip Chapin's wonderful bible program, 'bible', you may be
interested in a patch I've made for it. His original is entitled the Biblical
Retrival System (BRS) 4.00. I decided to put the modifications under the title
BRS 4.00a (or bible4.00a). Here is a list of changes:

    o Added limited signal catching (specifically, catching SIGPIPE when
        writing to a pipe, catching SIGINT during listings of verses,
        catching SIGTSTP and SIGCONT, and SIGSEGV for error reporting).
    o Added the use of a pipe in the interactive mode.
    o Added support for common abbreviations (old, torah, prophets, new,
        gospels, pauline, epistles) for ranges.
    o Added the use of a NOT specifier (!) on word-searches.
    o Added support for parenthesis in word-searches
        example: love ?a (truth ?o hope)
    o Modified range command, so if specifying only a book name as the end of a
        range, all the book is included, as well as specifying only the book
        name and chapter (all the chapter is included).
    o Modified ?in command, so if specifying only one book, all the book is
        selected.   
    o Modified ?in command, so as to re-search for words if new range is not
        within old range bounds.
    o Allow multiple word searches from one command. It is now possible to
        "??love ?a truth"
    o Added automatic ?and'ing of words. For example, it is now possible to
        search like this: ??love truth hope. This will become:
        love ?and ?truth ?and ?hope
    o Added a ?print command (abbrev: ?p) which will print the string
        currently searched for.
    o Added word completion with the tab key.

The original can be found at:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/religion/brs.4.00.l1.tar.gz
and my patch can be found at:
http://www.flash.net/~barham/richard/bible4.00-4.00a.diff.tar.gz

Richard
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Richard F. Barham -  http://www.flash.net/~barham/richard     - Ft. Worth, TX
 "I learned that it is better... for a proud man to fall and be humbled than
   to hold up his head in pride and fancied innocence." - George MacDonald



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