FTP an HTML Easton's Bible Dictionary

General Information

All FTP transfers are logged. If you are not comfortable with that, please do not download Bibles or references from our site.

All reference materials are marked up with HTML 4.0 constructs. Generally, 50 topics from each source are grouped per file. Within each file, each topic is contained in a single line. Some topics are extremely large, and may blow up certain word processors which can't handle 200k line lengths gracefully. We had to recompile micro-Emacs in-house to support them ourself.

Each topic is tagged for easy access from the associated index pages and all of our site reference layout pages make extensive use of scripting to reduce the volume of information presented to the user whenever possible. If you download the website copy instead of the localized copy, you will have to make significant (although repetitive) changes to the index pages to get them to work without scripts. Likewise, all scripture links in the references also use scripts to grab the indicated verses from the desired user Bible. While this is great on the web site, if you can't provide or run scripts on your box, you will have to do significant macro editing to do dynamic linking from reference to bibles using the website image below. Of course, the scripture links by themselves will appear properly and be useful, you just won't be able to directly link to the scripture without some work.

Having said that, a local copy can be wonderful. If you are going to open up every file we have and save a local copy anyway, this is the way to do it. There are many versions of these files available on CD-ROM - I personally find that the Bible Explorer Version 2.0 works well. These have the advantage of not taking up disk space, and being a fairly reliable medium which doesn't need backed up periodically. However, many of these have apparently obtained their source files from the same source as us, and there are errors in them that we are trying to correct on our site.

We use Webglimpse as our search tool. This is available on the net, but is not provided as part of any of these compressed files. You won't have local search capability from us if you download these files, however, since they are text based you can use any local search capabilities you have available to you on the files. The localized files include references back to our site for the search engine and other non-localizable features. Note that we compiled up changes to the original Webglimpse source to support international characters and extremely long lines.

For copyright information about our HTML additions, please see our Copyright statement.

The zip'd files have been compressed by a utility which presumably produces PC compatible files. The gzip'd files require Unix gzip and tar to properly extract. If you just want to see the format of our source, please use the view source function of your browser on a topic reference or small Bible book like Jude instead of downloading the archives.

Reference Sources (4.8 MBytes)

The sources in this table are for home users and resolve as many links as possible locally. All scripture links are localized to a ../lbible format allowing you to download one of the site Bibles into this generic directory to use for scripture links. All have identical contents. Pick the compression and archiving method you have tools to work with.

• The bzip2 and libbzip2 official home page
• The gzip official home page

The sources in this table are mirrors of the files on our site, and are provided for web designers who will be providing similar scripting features to mine.