jwm@stdb.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt) (01/18/90)
Check tank.chicago.edu anon ftp for a compressed tar file of the
entire bible.
Remember to get with binary, uncompress and detar it... I put together a
couple of scripts that search fairly nicely, if you wish, you may email me.
They search then drop into view on the line of the searched phrase.
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[The original question was where to find the text of the Bible, I
believe in English translation, in ASCII form. This is a different
question than the more common one, which is where to find the Bible in
a form suitable for use on PC's. There are a number of PC programs
that contain the whole text of the Bible. However the data is in an
encoded form designed for fast search, and is not suitable if what you
want is the plain text. Here are all the answers I know to the
original question. (I didn't write all of the following. It is snips
from postings in my archives.)
It appears that the following group (which mainly is concerned with
the original languages) also has the RSV translation:
Center for Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT)
Box 36 College Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA. 19104-6303
The NIV is available directly from the New York International Bible
Society, on Tices Lane in East Brunswick, NJ. (Their full address is
given at the end of the preface in NIV Bibles.)
For KJV and RSV there is the Word Ministries in Portland, OR. They
(rather he) will send you at no charge/no donation accepted any of
several versions, including KJV, RSV, greek, etc.
Some more details on the version at tank.uchicago.edu: it is
apparently bsaed on the copy from SIMTEL-20, but somewhat fixed up.
Apparently the copy at Simtel is really intended for use with MS/DOS
software, whereas this copy is intended to be real ASCII. It is a tar
file made of 66 compressed files, and can be had by anonymous ftp to
tank.uchicago.edu (128.135.4.27), file /pub/public/bible. There is
also a file, files.bible, which contains a couple of shell scripts to
use with the file.
For the New American Standard, contact the Lockmann Foundation. They
offer, through the Lockmann Press, a PC based program for searching
through the New American Standard. Note that Lockmann Foundation
currently has decided to not sub-licensed (to my knowledge, anyway)
any other software companies to use their text--you must obtain it
directly through them.
--clh]