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09:37 Mon Jun 23 2008 — Spencer (not verified)

Hi just want to say that this looks cool. Are you planning a version for a windows PDA device?

23:11 Thu Jul 10 2008 — cod_admin

Hi Spencer, thanks for the comment! There are already many similar programs that have even more features for PDA devices, so there are currently no plans to extend COD to this market. COD was primarily developed to run on PCs enabling the digital Bible to be read globally. The most established English language version was also chosen to broaden its appeal.

20:25 Fri Sep 19 2008 — MaverickKK (not verified)

Yahooooo

20:28 Sun Jul 20 2008 — Anonymous (not verified)

Thanks for this DR this is really big I was about to see if I could put it on my PDA then read the above hmmm but will give it a try. I highly recommend it. Only flaw obviously you need to know what you are looking for before you go into it no guessing where the text is from hmmm.
TC

22:04 Thu Jul 31 2008 — Bill (not verified)

Two questions: 1. What version of the Bible is used? KJV, NIV, RSV or ? 2. Is there a verse/subject search function? Thanks. Bill

23:09 Sun Aug 10 2008 — cod_admin

Hi Bill,

1. The Bible version is the King James Version (free and placed in the public domain as found on Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org - the free electronic library)

2. No there is not a search function in the program. If COD takes off and there is huge interest I may consider making a COD v.2.0 with such a feature.

02:02 Fri Aug 01 2008 — Anonymous (not verified)

The download link on the Download page on the "Christ on Disk menu" on the left sidebar is broken. Got page not found.

22:47 Fri Aug 01 2008 — Chris (not verified)

Download url not connecting at present
I'll try again later

Looking to try it out!

Chris

09:36 Sat Aug 02 2008 — Anonymous (not verified)

on downloading christondisk1.6.exe, NOD32 Antivirus comes up with a warning that it's "probably a variant of win32/statik".

i'm presuming that it's a false positive, but thought i'd let you know

23:19 Sun Aug 10 2008 — cod_admin

Thanks for letting me know.

Google search says it could be a corrupt download.
Do the hash sums compute correctly?

Another possibility is because COD's executable is compressed. Sometimes antivirus will generate false positives on compressed executables.

19:33 Sun Aug 03 2008 — Jeffrey Needle (not verified)

Trying to download the program gives you a Page Not Found error. What's up?

09:45 Mon Aug 04 2008 — DougCuk (not verified)

Download Links for COD is not working.
Link point to
http://cod.denverreynolds.co.uk/sites/christondisk.com/files/sites/cod.d...

But just get cannot open site for download or page not found.

09:48 Mon Aug 04 2008 — DougCuk (not verified)

It would appear the download link url has been messed up.
The correct url seems to be as follows:

http://cod.denverreynolds.co.uk/sites/christondisk.com/files/ChristOnDis...

11:35 Wed Aug 06 2008 — Hugh (not verified)

http://cod.denverreynolds.co.uk/sites/christondisk.com/files/sites/cod.d...

Hi there,

Not having much luck download COD.

Does the above link on your download page look OK to you?

Hear from you,

Hugh

11:36 Wed Aug 06 2008 — Hugh (not verified)

http://cod.denverreynolds.co.uk/sites/christondisk.com/files/sites/cod.d...

Hi there,

Not having much luck downloading COD.

Does the above link on your download page look OK to you?

Hear from you,

Hugh

06:10 Thu Aug 07 2008 — Decoy Flyer (not verified)

I am very interested in this, and would love to promote it. But, it seems that the download links are not working.

Please let me know when they are up.

-Decoy

10:47 Thu Aug 07 2008 — Hugh (not verified)

Hello again,

Finally got the COD application from the download link on your home page.

It does not look like the link on your download page - you might want to look at that.

Thank you,

Hugh

22:38 Sun Aug 10 2008 — cod_admin

Hi,

Thank you for your comments and alerting me to this issue!

I'm looking into it now...seems the files have been deleted - but not by me. :(
I hope things will be up and running shortly.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

23:02 Sun Aug 10 2008 — Anonymous (not verified)

Cheers

23:25 Sun Aug 10 2008 — cod_admin

The files were deleted from the site. :[ grrrr!

I've put them back up, so please download and share this simple program with others!

Thank you for your interest in COD!

Best wishes,
Denver

19:15 Wed Feb 25 2009 — Stephan (not verified)

Hi there!

I was Googling around for a downloadable Bible in plain text (I didn't
like the installable versions I found), and came across your project.
Great work! I would've never thought of using pattern replacement to
condense the text - I can't believe how small it is.

I wrote you to ask if you would consider releasing your source code to
the community. It would let us learn from your work (the text
compression) and also help in further COD translations (NIV/NLT/etc).
You could license it under the GPL (Gnu Public License) to protect your
original rights to the code. I believe your work would be of great
benefit to the community.

The reason I ask this is because I am looking at creating an NIV version
(or whatever other 'freely available' versions there are), and with your
source code I could greatly speed up this process. The best way to store
the Bible text is in plain text I think. Just a simple ASCII file (or
perhaps split into a book per file?) for easy searching.

Great job on the compression, and thank-you for releasing the project.
Please consider what I asked, and God bless.

- Stephan

18:07 Sat Mar 07 2009 — cod_admin

Hi Stephan, thank you for your comments and interest!

I've not released the code but would consider it after reading the comments posted here.

I used the King James Version out of personal preference, but it would be great to see it in other languages also.

I made notes when building the application about the problems I faced. Over the next few weeks, I will start revising what I went through. I recall at some point I was writing a more technical version of the COD story, and will look that up too for you.

God bless you! ( & thanks for the encouragement there's more to the story than told on this site ;)

23:39 Mon Jan 05 2009 — Anonymous (not verified)

ESET smart serurity picks it up as some sort of virus and quarantines it =|

05:01 Wed Jan 07 2009 — Duleep Kumar Samuel (not verified)

Thank you so much, can you please consider making the bible available in other versions/languages (open fonts)also, thanks I downloaded and am keeping in my pendrive, I always pray that God should bless you whenever I use this Bible, thanks Samuel, India

19:11 Sat Mar 07 2009 — cod_admin

Thank you Samuel, I am deeply moved by your comments.

Yes, all options are now under consideration.

06:39 Wed Jan 07 2009 — Stefan (not verified)

Hi all, my english is not good, so is there an advisement to translate this in german language ?

Have all of you a peacfull und healty year 2009

Stefan

Sorry for my bad english

18:57 Sat Mar 07 2009 — cod_admin

Thank you Stefan for your comments!

From what I've read here today I believe it is time to resurrect the COD project, and look at further development.

Stefan by His will there will be a COD version das auf Deutsch.

Forgive me, for my German is far poorer than your English.

God bless you too! :)

18:37 Wed Jan 14 2009 — Everett (not verified)

After reading your story about baking the COD fish, I'd like to write a program. What I want to do is automate the process you outlined. I'd like to write open source software that does this. I'd like to create something that will work with *nix, Windows, and Mac. This way, people can create their own COD, with a digital version of the Bible that they have, or have purchased. I'm sure the idea of this is insane, but 8 years ago it was insane to put the Bible plus a viewer on a floppy...

18:52 Sat Mar 07 2009 — cod_admin

Hi Everett,

I'd originally envisaged COD developing into a compressing 'module' reader at some point, way, way off in the distant future. Thanks to you, I guess that time has now arrived. ;)

If implemented it would not only mean the Bible, but *all* text documents could be turned into compressed ebooks.
I had looked at a bzip viewing wrapper with search to fulfil the role. What do you think?

This direction is similar to COD's nearest competitor (it fits on a floppy with search - but it's not free, not all in one file, and requires installation)
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/87895

See their methods here: http://www.eis.com.au/eompress.html

Thanks for the comments & inspiration
...now where's that apron? ;)

05:38 Fri Jan 23 2009 — BotK (not verified)

Would you be interested in releasing the source code? I personally am interested in implementing search (it should be possible in under 150k of compressed binary), although I suppose that other uses exist as well.

18:23 Sat Mar 07 2009 — cod_admin

Hi BotK

Yes I would now consider releasing the source code.

A search feature is something that the application could do with.

I had done some research into this when doing initial work on COD v2.0
My recollection is hazy but it involved Operational research, and I think I was seeking an particular search algorithm. Other bits I recall...
...To search the Bible quickly the search string must be compressed. Then the compressed search string is run against the compressed Bible text. This ensures a good speed is achieved and that minimum resources are used. Anything else would mean uncompressing large chunks of the Bible, before the search is performed - resulting in a slow search.

18:54 Mon Jan 26 2009 — Anonymous (not verified)

Thanks for letting me know.

Google search says it could be a corrupt download.
Do the hash sums compute correctly?

Another possibility is because COD's executable is compressed. Sometimes antivirus will generate false positives on compressed executables.

05:14 Wed Jul 01 2009 — Roland (not verified)

Hello,

An excellent effort, good work and thank you.
What about a linux and mac version of COD?

best wishes
Roland Munyard

12:02 Wed Dec 23 2009 — dido (not verified)

Very good post, thanks a lot.

19:21 Fri Jan 08 2010 — America (not verified)

I consider myself to be a promoted internet user and can say that your resurce is one of not many I like to come back again and again.

04:32 Tue Feb 23 2010 — brent christian (not verified)

I'm impresssed you got your program and the entire Bible down to such a small size! congratulations!

I will look forward to your program's inclusion into many linux distributions for the value it will bring to the community.

many blessings this year!

- brent

13:40 Sat Jan 08 2011 — cod_admin

Hi Brent,

I'm always pleased that others find COD useful, and am glad you have found it to be so.

Yes, the project must move forward.

Best Regards,
Denver

05:37 Tue Dec 28 2010 — Jon (not verified)

Hello Stephen,
Many, Many thanks to all who have contributed to COD. I just wish to add to the weight of interest in COD-2 with a Search Function. Then, COD will be on it's way to heaven, as it will have attained PERFECTION. That would be unfortunate for us, because we really NEED this bad boy on earth...

13:31 Sat Jan 08 2011 — cod_admin

Hi Jon,
Yes there is a need for COD2.

Having a search function would be a primary addition to the software.

Best Regards,
Denver - COD developer

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