<html><head></head><body> <div dir="auto">Dear Troy,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The underlying problem is that the STEP Bible repository was never added to the CrossWire Master Repository List.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Until that’s done, the only way users can test it is when a front-end permits manually adding a remote repository. Xiphos can do that, but I don’t know if any other app can.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">David</div><div><br></div> <div><br></div><div><br></div>On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 16:35, Darcy McKinnon <<a class="" href="mailto:On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 16:35, Darcy McKinnon <<a href=">dmckinnon78@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite" class="protonmail_quote"> <div dir="ltr">Hi David and Troy,<div><br></div><div>Mark and David passed this along to me to look into. We thought that STEPBible's modules were available for others to access, but if we have something misconfigured, please let me know.</div><div><br></div><div>On the <a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.crosswire.org/Official_and_Affiliated_Module_Repositories#STEP_Bible">Official_and_Affiliated_Module_Repositories</a> page we have the following information:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace"> Site Name: STEP Bible<br> Site Machine Name: <a target="_blank" href="http://ftp.stepbible.org">ftp.stepbible.org</a><br> Repository Directory: /pub/sword<br><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace"> Catalog Directory: /pub/sword<br> ZIP Directory: /pub/sword/zip</font></div><div><br></div><div>Below is a transcript of a connection to the ftp server from my Linux workstation. If there is something specific that I can test, that would be great.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Darcy McKinnon</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font face="monospace">> <font color="#ff0000">ftp <a target="_blank" href="ftp://anonymous@ftp.stepbible.org">ftp://anonymous@ftp.stepbible.org</a></font></font></div><div><font face="monospace">Connected to <a target="_blank" href="http://ftp.stepbible.org">ftp.stepbible.org</a>.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">220 (vsFTPd 3.0.5)</font></div><div><font face="monospace">331 Please specify the password.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">Password: </font></div><div><font face="monospace">230 Login successful.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">Remote system type is UNIX.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">Using binary mode to transfer files.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">200 Switching to Binary mode.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">ftp> <font color="#ff0000">cd pub/sword</font></font></div><div><font face="monospace">250 Directory successfully changed.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">ftp> <font color="#ff0000">ls</font></font></div><div><font face="monospace">229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||30096|)</font></div><div><font face="monospace">150 Here comes the directory listing.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Feb 13 10:05 mods.d</font></div><div><font face="monospace">-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 6789 Feb 13 10:05 mods.d.tar.gz</font></div><div><font face="monospace">drwxr-xr-x 3 0 0 4096 Feb 13 10:05 modules</font></div><div><font face="monospace">drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Feb 13 10:05 zip</font></div><div><font face="monospace">226 Directory send OK.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">ftp> <font color="#ff0000">cd mods.d</font></font></div><div><font face="monospace">250 Directory successfully changed.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">ftp> <font color="#ff0000">ls</font></font></div><div><font face="monospace">229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||30082|)</font></div><div><font face="monospace">150 Here comes the directory listing.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 1852 Apr 01 2021 RV_th.conf</font></div><div><font face="monospace">-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 2402 Dec 18 21:07 SBLG_th.conf</font></div><div><font face="monospace">-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 3353 Jan 27 2022 THOT.conf</font></div><div><font face="monospace">-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 1586 Sep 30 20:25 abpen_sb.conf</font></div><div><font face="monospace">-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 2265 Sep 30 20:24 abpgk_sb.conf</font></div><div><font face="monospace">-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 3447 Feb 08 22:53 arasvd_sb.conf</font></div><div><font face="monospace">-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 688 Jun 30 2015 cym.conf</font></div><div><font face="monospace">-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 2343 Oct 25 2017 lxx_th.conf</font></div><div><font face="monospace">226 Directory send OK.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">ftp> <font color="#ff0000">cd ../modules</font></font></div><div><font face="monospace">250 Directory successfully changed.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">ftp> <font color="#ff0000">ls</font></font></div><div><font face="monospace">229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||30065|)</font></div><div><font face="monospace">150 Here comes the directory listing.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">drwxr-xr-x 3 0 0 4096 Feb 13 10:05 texts</font></div><div><font face="monospace">226 Directory send OK.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">ftp> <font color="#ff0000">cd ../zip</font></font></div><div><font face="monospace">250 Directory successfully changed.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">ftp> <font color="#ff0000">ls</font></font></div><div><font face="monospace">229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||30023|)</font></div><div><font face="monospace">150 Here comes the directory listing.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 2877552 Feb 13 10:05 AraSVD_sb.zip</font></div><div><font face="monospace">-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 2290234 Nov 06 15:22 CYM.zip</font></div><div><font face="monospace">-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 6267628 Nov 06 15:22 LXX_th.zip</font></div><div><font face="monospace">-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 3008973 Apr 10 2021 RV_th.zip</font></div><div><font face="monospace">-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 1574927 Dec 22 10:05 SBLG_th.zip</font></div><div><font face="monospace">-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 4488324 Nov 21 10:05 THOT.zip</font></div><div><font face="monospace">-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 4682539 Oct 05 21:56 abpen_sb.zip</font></div><div><font face="monospace">-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 4403217 Oct 05 21:56 abpgk_sb.zip</font></div><div><font face="monospace">226 Directory send OK.</font></div><div><font face="monospace">ftp> <font color="#ff0000">exit</font></font></div><div><font face="monospace">221 Goodbye.</font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong dir="auto" class="gmail_sendername">David Instone-Brewer</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:davidinstonebrewer@gmail.com">davidinstonebrewer@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 3:21 AM<br>Subject: Re: Resend: David Haslam's inquiry about Crosswire<br>To: Mark Cannon <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:mcannon.bw@gmail.com">mcannon.bw@gmail.com</a>>, Darcy McKinnon <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:dmckinnon78@gmail.com">dmckinnon78@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr">Dear Darcy</div><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail_attr">David Haslam of Crosswire asked Mark (below) if our module repository could be made compatible with other Sword software. </div><div class="gmail_attr">I thought it was! Presumably he means that programs like Zophos can't pick up modules from our repository. </div><div class="gmail_attr">Do you know what he means by this problem?</div><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail_attr">All the best</div><div class="gmail_attr">David IB</div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I was excited about Patrick's info on the grammar features working with the ESV_morph and posted something to my own Facebook page after I posted it on our STEPBible Users page. David Haslam asked in a reply to my post:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>Is there any chance that the Bible modules hosted by STEP Bible could be maintained in a compatible online repository such that other SWORD and JSword front-end apps could install them therefrom ?</div><div>For further details, please visit <a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.crosswire.org/">wiki.crosswire.org</a> and see the page about “Official and Affiliated Module Repositories”.</div><div>Section 2.6 already describes STEP Bible but the section hasn’t been updated for several years, so it may now need updating.</div><div>The Master Repositories List (MRL) hosted by CrossWire still does not include an entry for STEP Bible.</div><div>To request that this should be added, please send an email to Troy A. Griffitts - CrossWire’s founder.</div><div>Please DM me for his address if you don’t have it.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What do you think about this?</div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Mark</div></font><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal">Mark Cannon</p>
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