M T R T o r a h S h a r e w a r e -- Hebrew Legal Classics MTR (ver. Adar A' 5757) Copyright 1997 Mechon Mamre, 12 Hayyim Vital St., Jerusalem, Israel (972-02-652-1906): Includes Mishneh Torah, Tanach, Targum, Mishnah, Toseftah, Yerushalmi, and Bavli. After 30 days free trial, the full registration fee for individuals is 120 NIS (or $50 US), and for educational institutions without limitation on the number of users is 200 NIS (or $80 US); people of limited means can register for less, without embarrassment of giving us any explanation. Updated versions of MTR are released about twice yearly, currently without charge to registered users (but notification by letter or email is required); if you have email, please send us your email address with registration so that we can notify you of updates quickly. Registration is by mail only, and payment by check only. We encourage you to share the program with others, and to upload its ZIP files and MTRAINFO.TXT to BBSs. This rather large package (the ZIP files expand to about 28M on the PC) should be of interest to many users of Internet who know Hebrew: In particular students of Jewish law and others who read the Bible in the original Hebrew (here according to the Kether Aram Tsova manuscript) and important Jewish legal classics (Mishnah, Toseftah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud, and the Rambam's Code according to the Yemenite manuscripts). Additional works are in preparation and are to be added in MTR updates. This Torah package provides uncoded ASCII Hebrew texts, Hebrew fonts for VGA and EGA, and Hebrew search engine: The search engine "speaks" only Hebrew (input, output, 22 help screens, and 7 main screens), but printable help in English is provided. The search engine, which comes both in stand-alone and TSR forms, can hunt for a multi-word string of up to 75 chars and allows for search of whole words, words with prefixes, words with suffixes, or words with prefixes and suffixes, and supports boolean expressions of several strings. The stand-alone program works on text-mode screens of 25 to 60 lines, and is Windows aware; it can send blocks of text to the Clipboard for pasting in Windows (with options for Word-style or Dagesh-style handling of parentheses), and no Windows for Hebrew is needed to work with Windows word processors such as Dagesh where Hebrew support is built in. The TSR allows the user to choose between seeing either his text-mode DOS word processor or the search engine on a full 25 line screen, or optionally under VGA seeing both on a 50 line screen; the TSR can send blocks of text to DOS word processors. Special requirements: DOS 3.3 or later, VGA or EGA (unless you have MONO or CGA with a Hebrew font), 28MB free on the destination disk (even more on big disks and on compressed disks). This version is Win95 compatible, unlike the previous versions. Installation: If you already have a version of MTR on your disk, you must download and run MTRADEL to remove it *before* installing this update. To install, you need to download MTRA001.ZIP through MTRA008.ZIP and to UNZIP with the -d option in numerical order only. After installation, the following will be found in directory \MTR\, which must not be erased or changed in any way (other than the batch files or printable help files), or else MTR stops functioning: MTR.COM stand-alone search engine MTRTSR.COM TSR search engine MTRFONTS.COM Hebrew font support (stand alone or TSR) HAMACHON.COM Hebrew documentation on Mechon Mamre and how and why MTR was prepared AZHAROT.COM Hebrew documentation on MTR and limitations in its use KETIV.COM Hebrew documentation on our spelling PISSUQ.COM Hebrew documentation on our punctuation BAT.COM Hebrew documentation on loading MTR with batch files MTR.ICO Icon for Windows MTRHELP printable Hebrew help file (you need a printer with a Hebrew font) MTRAHELP.TXT MTR's internal help screens (not for printing) MTRBHELP.TXT MTRTSR's internal help screens (not for printing) MTR.HST MTR's search history file MTRTSR.HST MTRTSR's search history file MTRHELP.ENG printable English help (no Hebrew used at all, so any printer will do) including Hebrew keyboard layout M.BAT loads Hebrew font and runs MTR MP.BAT ditto (for portable) M2.BAT loads Hebrew font plus both MTR and MTRTSR for learning in two places at the same time M2P.BAT ditto (for portable) MW.BAT loads Hebrew font, loads MTRTSR, and runs your WP.BAT for working with your word processor MWP.BAT ditto (for portable) These last six files are prepared as example batch files for running from C:\MTR and need to be revised for use on disks other than C:. If you run MTR, MTRTSR, or MTRFONTS with the /? option, you will see all of the possible loading options, some of which you may wish to add. The following subdirectories under \MTR\ contain the uncoded Hebrew (alef = ACSII 128) texts of the works included in this version: MTR Mishneh Torah TNK Tanach in easy-to-read spelling TNX Tanach in masoretic spelling ONQ Targum Onqelos MSH Mishnah TSF Toseftah YER Yerushalmi BVL Bavli None of these should be erased or changed in any way, or else MTR stops functioning from that work and onwards (obviously if you change or erase something from \MTR\MTR, the search engines will not work at all). On the other hand, if for example you do not need the Bavli, just erase its files (saving over ten megabytes) and MTR will notice this and work in Mishneh Torah up to the Yerushalmi. Please do not erase the TNK files, even if you do not like our full spelling, because that will leave you with Mishneh Torah only (unless that is really what you want). If you have limited disk space, or just want to check out the program, you can download and install MTRA001.ZIP and MTRA002.ZIP for Mishneh Torah only (or add MTRA003.ZIP to add Bible and Onqelos, or add MTRA004.ZIP to add Mishnah and Toseftah). You can later add the rest, or download MTRADEL.ZIP to uninstall (if you have DOS 6 and above, DELTREE \MTR can uninstall this version of MTR). To save downloading, send 35 NIS or $20 US (including shipping world wide) to our address above (3.5" HD disks only). For additional help (only after reading the instructions, please): email tsiona@www-mail.huji.ac.il.