M T R   T o r a h   S h a r e w a r e  --  Hebrew Legal Classics

     MTR (ver. Tamuz 5756)  Copyright 1996  Mechon Mamre, 12 Hayyim Vital,
     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; 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 mtr_info.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 
     the installation is bi-lingual so that it can be done by anyone who 
     understands computers.

     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, 
     and installation only from 8 3.5" floppies made by the EXEs inside 
     the downloaded ZIPs.  This version is reportedly not Win95 compatible 
     except under its DOS.

     The original version of MTR comes on 8 3.5" HD floppy installation
     disks.  Here, you must first download the 8 mtr00?.zip files to your
     PC, and unZIP them to make temporary mtr00?.exe programs.  Then you
     must _run_ each MTR00?.exe program to recreate an exact copy of the
     similarly-named original installation disk; for example, the command
     MTR001 A: will make a copy of the MTR001 installation disk in floppy
     drive A:.  NOTE:  Do _not_ simply _copy_ the MTR00?.exe programs to
     floppies, but _run_ them to make the floppies.

     To install MTR from the recreated set of 8 installation disks to any
     PC from either A: or B: to any hard drive (from C: up to Z:)--simply
     insert the disk MTR001 in the floppy drive, and use the command
     INSTALL to install to C: or INSTALL X: to install to X:, and follow
     the instructions in English or in Hebrew.

     This multi-step process is necessary, because MTR uses Hebrew file
     names and Hebrew fonts (which are not generally available on the PC
     under generic DOS), so that a simple ZIP file of the programs and its
     several libraries of files does not work.  While it sounds involved,
     on newer computers this process can take less than half an hour, once
     the ZIP files have been downloaded from the ftp.

     To save downloading and recreating the installation disks, send 35
     NIS or $20 US (including shipping world wide) to our address above.

     For additional help (only after reading the instructions, please):
     email tsiona@www-mail.huji.ac.il.