



                   SEEDMASTER V2.2 DEMO QUICK TOUR


GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
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This SeedMaster/DOS (SM) demo is a fully functional SM program running
on some special "reduced" databases to save the disk space and the
number of floppies it would otherwise take to try out SM. 

The two Bible texts, the KJV (also called KJS) and Young's Literal Trans-
lation (YLT) are limited to the Gospel of John, as is the Strong's number 
database (STR). If you move to other Bible books, you'll only get verse 
references--with no text. The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge cross-
references have been similarly limited to the book of John. Finally, 
the Strong's Lexicon is limited to New Testament numbers only and the 
definitions have been truncated to four lines of text to save space. 

Hopefully, these restrictions strike a proper balance of function and 
disk space that lets you best evaluate SM. Note you can order full data-
bases from directly us at very reasonable costs, if you prefer.

We STRONGLY suggest you follow along with this Quick Tour. It is NOT 
exhaustive of SM's features, but it does give you an idea of the power 
and utility of the SM program. Armed with a basic frame-work, you can 
then explore SM's features as you wish.

We assume you have just installed the SM Demo. If not, we suggest you
exit SM and delete the OPTIONS.DAT file (a fresh one with basic
defaults will be re-created) so your screens will match our demo 
instructions. 


STARTING SM
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To start SM, make sure your default directory is set to where you 
installed the SM Demo files. For most people that will be "C:\SMDEMO".

To change to this directory at the C> prompt, type: CD\SMDEMO <Enter>.

Then type: SM  <Enter>

Press any key at the copyright screen.

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VIEWING VERSES
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SM opens to John 1:1 in the KJS (King James with Strong's Support)
Bible text. You can scroll the verses with the cursor keys. Press <Down>, 
and the text advances to John 1:2. To advance a "screen-full" of verses, 
press <Spacebar>. The last verse on the Screen becomes the first. To re-
view cursor key choices, press <F1> for context sensitive Help. Note that 
you have numerous cursor control options (Next Chapter, Previous Book, 
etc.). When you are finished with Help, Press <Esc>. 

Let's go back to John 1:1. We could cursor there easily, but suppose we
are in Genesis 1:1? That might take a while! Instead, Press <F6> to 
bring up the Bible verse selection menu. Note that you can select any 
Bible book via a menu--you don't have to remember any abbreviation 
schemes. Select John, then enter <1> for the chapter. Note that SM 
displays the available range of chapters in John. Then press <Enter> 
and press <1>, <Enter> to jump back to John 1:1. 

Note that the text is formatted in paragraphs. You can turn paragraphs
off and display the verses on separate lines. Also note the text foot-
notes that are enclosed in {curly braces}. You can eliminate them. 
Let's change both. We use the Screen Format dialog found on the View 
menu. Press <Alt><V> to access the View menu. Type <F> to open the 
Screen Format dialog. Cursor or <Tab> to the Paragraph Form checkbox. 
Press <Spacebar> to remove the "X". Then <Tab> down and press 
<Spacebar> in Suppress {Footnotes} to add an "X". You could cursor 
all the way down and press <Enter> on the OK button, but we'll take 
the quick way out and press <F7> to save and exit the dialog window.

Note that the text now lacks paragraphs and footnotes. Now lets turn 
them back on and try something else. Press <Alt><V> for View menu, 
then <F> for the Screen Format dialog. Cursor to Paragraph Form and 
Suppress {Footnotes} and use the <Spacebar> toggle the options back 
to where they were. Now, move to Show <Strongs> Numbers in KJS. 
Press <Spacebar> to add an "X". Press <F7> to save and exit.

Now see what you have done! The Strong's numbers show up in the 
Bible text! Now you can tell which Strong's number (and thereby which
Greek word) is underlying the English text at any point. If you want,
you could pop-up the Lexicon and type in a Strong's number to get it's
definition. But, if the Strong's number is already displayed in View 
mode, you can use SM's Hypertext "point and shoot".

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Press <Tab>. See the available Hypertext jumps highlighted? Suppose we 
wanted to know more about the word "Word" in John 1:1. <Tab> over to 
<3056> and press <Enter>. Up pop's the Strong's Lexicon, pre-set to
3056! Remember, we've truncated the definitions to four lines to save 
space on this demo. Otherwise, you'd have even more information! Press 
<Esc> to pop out of the Lexicon. The Hypertext "point and shoot" is 
still active. Press <Esc> to return to View mode.

We'll search on "Word" and 3056 later. For now, let's look at how 
Young's Literal (YLT) renders John 1:1. First, we switch to YLT by 
pressing <Alt><V> for the View menu. Before you select Switch Version,
note that there is a short cut (pressing <Alt><F3>) to avoid using the 
menu to switch versions. Press <S> to enter the Switch Version dialog.
Cursor to YLT and press <Spacebar>. The round dot appears for YLT. 
Press <Enter> to move to OK, then press <Enter> on OK to exit the 
dialog and switch versions.

But maybe we'd prefer to compare YLT and KJS side by side... That's 
easy! Press <Alt><I> for the Window menu, and press <A> to select Add 
Window. (Note you can also just press <F9>.) Now we have two YLT windows
side by side. We need to switch one of them to the KJS version. This 
time we'll take the shortcut--press <Alt><F3>. Press <Spacebar> on KJV 
(KJS is the same as KJV on this and most dialog choices) to get the 
round dot on KJV, and press <F7>. Now you you can really compare the 
texts. And, if needed, you could add even one more side by side window! 
Each window can be the same version (for parallel passages) or 
different versions for comparisons. 

Press <Down>. Note that the active KJS window (it has a double line bor-
der) moved by itself. With side by side windows, you also scroll windows 
together. Press <Up>, then press <Alt><V> for the View menu, and press 
<Y> to activate Synchronize Scrolling. Now press <Down> and watch both 
translations move together. Press <Up> to return to John 1:1.

SM also offers a "interlinear view" of up to five translations in a 
single View window. Lets remove our current View window by pressing 
<Esc>. Next, press <Alt><V>, choose Screen Format again (press <F>), 
and this time press <Spacebar> in Use Interlinear Form. Next, in the 
Interlinear Order field, we will define the order of the versions to be
YLY followed by KJS. Enter "YK" in that field. Then press <F7> to save 
and exit the dialog. 

Now, for each verse, you have both translations in the same window.
Interlinear form can be useful for if you often compare one or more 
texts. You can use up to five in any order!

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Now lets turn Interlinear Form off on the Screen Format dialog 
(<Alt><V>, <F> <Spacebar> on Use Interlinear Form, <F7>). And, lets 
switch back to the KJS from YLT (<Alt><F3>, <Spacebar> in KJV, <F7>).


TREASURY CROSS-REFERENCES
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Before we search, let's see if there are any important cross-references 
for "Word" to be found in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Press 
<Alt><F> for the File menu, press <T> for Study Resources and finally 
<R> for Treasury SK Xrefs. The Treasury appears at the bottom of our 
screen for our current View verse (John 1:1). Note that in addition to 
an outline of chapter 1, it does have references for "the Word". Only 
one of them is really available in our demo, so let's take a look at it.
Press <Tab> to activate the Hypertext "point and shoot" and <Tab> to 
"# 14" (verse 14 of the current chapter 1). Press <Enter>. A special 
window pops up so you can see the text of the cross-reference verse! It 
defaults to the Bible version and text options of your View window. 
Press <Esc> to exit this window, and <Esc> once more to exit Hypertext
mode. 

You can keep the TSK around as you scroll verses in View. Press <Esc>. 
The TSK window remains, but the View window becomes active. Press <Down>
twice. The TSK is updated to the current verse in View!. Press <Up> twice
to return to John 1:1.

Press the <Ctrl><F8> shortcut to re-enter the TSK. Now press <F7> to 
remove the TSK window.

(Advanced uses of the TSK and similar resources include editing and 
adding to the references, converting cross-references to a Search file, 
importing a Search file to create references, searching the resource 
text, and more!)


SIMPLE SEARCHING
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Ok, let's do a simple search! First let's search on the word "Word". 

Press <Alt><S> for the Search menu and then <Enter> to select 
"Word/Phrase" search for the Word/Phrase Dialog. Enter "Word" (without
the quote marks), then press <Enter>. Since we only have one word, "Word
Order" is ignored, but note that you can restrict Search results to 3
types of word order. Let's enforce Case Sensitivity, so press <Spacebar>
in the Sensitive checkbox. Press <F7> to begin the Search. 

Since we enforced Case Sensitivity, SM screens each verse containing 
"word" to make sure the case matches exactly as we typed it. The 
result is 2 verses (in our limited database). 

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Now, let's back up and see what eliminating Case sensitivity will do 
to the number of "hits" in our Search. Press <Esc>, then press 
<Alt><F2> (the shortcut for the Word/Phrase dialog). The last 
word/phrase is automatically retained, so just <Tab> or <Enter> down 
to Sensitive and press <Spacebar>, followed by <F7> to accept and start 
the new Search. Now we found 20 verses! 

But the word "word" doesn't appear in the fragments to the right of 
the references. Let's fix that! Press <Alt><V> for the View menu, and 
<F> for Screen Format. Now cursor down to Verse Fragments: and press 
<Spacebar> on Word Context. Press <F7> to save and exit. 

Now we can screen word usage! Another option to view Search results is 
to View a verse in context. Press <Enter> on John 1:1. Now you can see 
and scroll the verse in context--with search word(s) highlighted. 
Press <Esc> to return to the Search.

Note that in every instance, "word" has the Strong's number 3056 
associated with it. What if we just searched on 3056? Let's try! Press 
<Esc>, <Alt><F2>, and just enter "3056" as your word/phrase. Press <F7>.
Aha! 36 verses! So by searching Strong's we can sometimes find related 
verses that an English translation may hide from us!

(Advanced uses of Search includes saving and retrieving search files, 
merging searches using AND, OR, NOT and XOR logic, converting to and 
from cross-references, adding and deleting verses to a search, printing 
all or part of a search, restricting searches to specific verse ranges, 
and more!)


WORD LIST SEARCHES
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Let's look at word searches from another angle. Press <Esc>, and then 
press <F5>. Enter "Word" to start SM's Word List and Press <Enter>. SM 
offers an exhaustive Word List for each Bible text. The list is alpha-
betical, and to the right of each word, the number of verses it occurs 
in is displayed. 

To search for our word "Word", press <Enter>. This gives the same 
search results that the word/phrase search did. Press <Esc>. Not that 
the Word List also shows us that the variation "words" is found in 19 
verses. 

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What if we wanted to search on either "Word" or "words"? Press 
<Spacebar> on "Word" (the little "|" symbol means OR logic--which you 
can change on the Words menu). Now press <Down> to move to "words" and 
then press <Spacebar> to toggle it ON too. Now press <Ctrl><Enter> (or 
use Combine Toggled on the Edit menu). The total is 38 verses. You can 
scroll these hits and View them in context by pressing <Enter>. When you 
are finished, press <Esc> to return to the Word List.

SM even makes the Strong's numbers available to you in the Word List. 
Press <F5> to "restart" the list to a new "word". Key in "3056" and 
press <Enter>. The Strong's numbers Word List is special. It gives you 
the Strong's number, the transliterated Greek (or Hebrew) word, AND the 
most common KJV rendering of that number. The Lexicon is a quick 
<Shift><F6> away! Try it! 

While we're here in the Lexicon, note that the definition says 3056 is 
derived from 3004. What if we want to look up 3004? Well, you could 
press <Shift><F6> again and SM would ask for a new number--but there is 
an easier way. Press <Tab> to start Hypertext jumps. Press <Enter> on 
3004. Now we can get that definition! Want to go back to 3056? Press 
<Esc>. Wasn't that fun? Press <Esc> again to exit Hypertext, and once 
again press <Esc> to return to the Word List. Finally, press <Esc> to
return to the View mode.


FINAL COMMENTS
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Of course, we could've been using SM's Notepad all this time to take 
notes on our findings, and even using SM's Grabber to "grab" screen text
and import it into the Notepad or other SM text resources.

Again, this is just a quick tour--there is so much more to tell. But,
this should provide a quick idea of some of SM's basic features--and 
you can explore further with this demo package. Before we turn you 
loose, a quick overview of some key SM menus and dialog windows is in 
order. We will cover only the basics. If you press <F1> in the menus 
or use the Help Index on the Help menu, you can get more detailed 
information.

Press <Alt> and release it to enter the File menu. The first 6 options 
let you manipulate Notepad and Search files. Directories lets you con-
trol where SM databases are stored (CD-ROM drives, etc.). Printer Setup 
is important, so press <R> for a peek.

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You can define up to 4 "printing devices". Most people use 2. The first 
is their traditional printer, and the default of "PRN" works for most. 
BUT, the second option is a disk file. You can put in a Description 
like "Disk File" for Device #2, and then a Device Name like: 
"C:\WP51\BIBLE.TXT". When you print to Device #2, if the file does not
exist, it is created. If it DOES exist, SM APPENDS the new text to the 
end of the file. This lets you print multiple Bible passages to the 
same file, then import it all at once into a word processor like 
WordPerfect. 

Press <Esc> to pop back out of this dialog. Then, press and release <Alt> 
for the File menu again. The Rabbit Trail is an advanced SM function.
When you are ready, read about it in the General Help on the Help menu. 
Study Resources (press <T>) lets you select various SM resources and 
tools. By default, you will always have a Notepad, Commentary (for user-
created verse by verse notes) and User Xrefs (for user-created verse by 
verse cross references). 

Press <Esc> to return to the main File menu. Press <Alt><S> to move to 
the Search menu. The Search Statistics gives you book by book and chapter 
by chapter summaries of a Search. Ranges lets you restrict search hits to 
up to 26 continuous or non-continuous verse ranges. 

Press <Alt><H> for the Help menu. General Help is suggested reading for 
SM beginners. The Index is an alphabetical compilation of Help topics 
that you can choose directly. Context Sensitive help is the default 
"Help" you get by pressing <F1> in a SM function.

Finally, everyone who wants to use SM should use Registration Info to 
find out how to register SM and to learn about the available Bible 
translations. Registration Form will print a form that you can use to 
register or order Bible translations and databases.

We hope you enjoy exploring and using SeedMaster. 

We appreciate your support!


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