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- MultiWord Copyright (c) 1990, Digital Crypto & Peter Moreton
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- All Rights Reserved Worldwide
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- MultiWord V1.1 Electronic Thesaurus
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-
-
- Introduction
- ------------
-
- MultiWord is an electronic thesaurus that provides the PC user with instant
- access to over 60,000 synonyms for over 9000 main entries. MultiWord features
- include an easy user interface, compressed dictionary data, and the ability
- to operate standalone or as a TSR (pop-up program)
-
-
- Installing MultiWord on your PC
- -------------------------------
-
- Hard drive machines:
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- Create a suitable directory, eg: C:\MW. Copy the contents of the distribution
- diskette into this directory.
-
- Example: (Assuming distribution diskette is in drive A:, hard drive is C:)
-
- C:> MD \MW
- C:> COPY A:*.* C:\MW
-
- The \MW directory should contain MULTWORD.EXE, MULTWORD.DAT, MULTWORD.DOC
-
- Changes to AUTOEXEC.BAT:
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- In order that the MultiWord software may be used from any directory, the
- DOS PATH should be set to include \MW. If you do not include \MW in the
- PATH, then you will have to change directory to \MW before running MultiWord.
-
- The DOS PATH is usually defined in AUTOEXEC.BAT, you should edit this file
- to change the path, then reboot the PC.
-
- Additionally, you may wish to load MultiWord as a TSR from AUTOEXEC.BAT.
-
- Example AUTOEXEC.BAT:
-
- SET PATH=C:\DOS;C:\MW;
- MULTWORD /R
-
-
- Twin Floppy machines:
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- If your PC is not equipped with a hard drive, then MultiWord can be executed
- from floppy, but please make a copy of the distribution disk and use the copy.
-
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- Running MultiWord
- -----------------
-
- (If you have not included C:\MW in your PATH, enter 'CD \MW' now)
-
- The MultiWord program can execute in 1 of 2 modes:
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- 1. Transient. (non-resident)
- To run MultiWord as a transient program, type 'MULTWORD'
- at the DOS prompt. The MultiWord display panel will appear
- on the right side of the screen.
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- 2. Resident. (TSR)
- To install MultiWord as a TSR (resident in memory),
- type 'MULTWORD /R' at the DOS prompt. To activate
- the TSR, press the default TSR hotkey, CTRL-LEFTSHIFT.
-
- (Using MultiWord in the TSR mode uses 28k of system
- memory, but allows you to pop up the MultiWord display
- panel over other programs, such as a wordprocessor.)
-
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- Using MultiWord
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-
- At this point, you should have the MultiWord display panel displayed on your
- screen, either because you have run MULTWORD, or because you have loaded it
- as a TSR, and pressed the TSR hotkey.
-
- To look up a word and find its synonyms, just type the word and press 'enter'.
- The synonyms for that word will appear. If a suitable synonym for your use is
- displayed, then press 'escape' to implode the MultiWord display and return to
- DOS or the application.
-
- If you wish to browse further, the arrow keys may be used to move the
- highlighted word in the synonym display to another similar word, which may
- be looked up by pressing 'enter'. This process may be repeated ad-infinitum
- allowing the user to browse a whole range of meanings.
-
- To try a completely new word, press 'delete' to remove the displayed main-
- entry word, and enter a new word followed by 'enter'.
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- If you find that a word is not located when you press enter, you may wish to
- perform a search of the entire dictionary file to locate it. To do this, enter
- the word to locate and press 'F3' to initiate the search. When a matching
- entry is found, it will be displayed, and you may then press 'enter' to find
- the next occurrance, or 'F4' to abandon the search.
-
-
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- Key Function Summary
- --------------------
-
- The following keys have particular meaning within MultiWord:
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- ESC - Quit MultiWord
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- Page Up/Dn - Scroll information window. The information window (at the bottom
- of the display panel) provides all the information required to
- operate MultiWord, and the information it displays is scrolled
- using the Page Up/Dn keys.
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- Enter - Lookup word via index (Fast!). Lookup locates words by scanning
- the main-entry index. This is fast, and will locate most words
- in everyday use, but will not locate words that do not exist as
- main-entries, ie: some synonyms.
-
- F2 - Select matching type, PREFIX or WHOLE. PREFIX matching finds a
- word from the first few letters entered. WHOLE matching finds
- the exact word entered. Therefore, in PREFIX mode, entry of 'WOR'
- will locate 'WORD', but in WHOLE mode will locate nothing.
-
- F3 - Search whole dictionary for word (Slow!). Search locates words
- by scanning the entire dictionary file, and can find many
- occurances of a single word. Each matching entry is displayed
- sequentially, and the user is prompted to press enter to
- continue searching, or F4 to abandon the search.
-
- F4 - Abandon word search. Finishes a whole-dictionary search that
- was initiated with F3.
-
- Delete - Erase displayed word. The Delete key erases the main-entry
- word currently displayed, allowing entry of a new word. As
- an alternative, the backspace key may be used to remove the
- main-entry word from the display.
-
- <= => - Select word from synonym display. The Arrow (cursor) keys
- allow the user to select a word from the displayed synonyms
- which may then be looked up by pressing enter, thereby locating
- further synonyms.
-
-
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- Selecting screen colors and TSR hotkey
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-
- The screen colors and TSR hotkey used by MultiWord may be defined by the
- DOS environment variables MW_COLORS and MW_HOTKEY. If undefined, then
- default values are used.
-
- The DOS environment variables are programmed thus:
-
- SET MW_COLORS=background,box,text,thesaurus
- SET MW_HOTKEY=hotkey
-
- where 'background', 'box', 'text' and 'thesaurus' are color codes defined
- below, and 'hotkey' is a keyboard code defined below. The above commands
- would usually be located in AUTOEXEC.BAT. Note that the TSR reads setup
- information at program load time only, so colors displayed by the TSR
- cannot be changed once it is loaded.
-
-
- Color codes for 'background':
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- Color Code
- --------------------
- BLACK 0
- BLUE 16 (Default background color)
- GREEN 32
- CYAN 48
- RED 64
- MAGENTA 80
- YELLOW 96
- WHITE 112
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- Color codes for 'box', 'text', 'thesaurus':
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- Color Code
- --------------------
- BLACK 0
- BLUE 1
- GREEN 2
- CYAN 3
- RED 4
- MAGENTA 5 (Default box color)
- YELLOW 6
- WHITE 7 (Default thesaurus color)
- GREY 8
- Light BLUE 9
- Light GREEN 10 (Default text color)
- Light CYAN 11
- Light RED 12
- Light MAGENTA 13
- Light YELLOW 14
- Light WHITE 15
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- Color code usage:
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- background : Display panel background color
- box : Box line color
- text : General text color
- thesaurus : Synonym display color
-
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- TSR Hotkey codes:
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- Hotkey combination Code
- ----------------------------
- CONTROL/LEFTSHIFT 6 (Default)
- CONTROL/RIGHTSHIFT 5
- ALT/LEFTSHIFT 10
- ALT/RIGHTSHIFT 9
- ALT/CONTROL 12
- LEFTSHIFT/RIGHTSHIFT 3
-
- Example:
- SET MW_COLORS=0,12,3,5
- SET MW_HOTKEY=5
-
- To revert to default colors and hotkey:
-
- SET MW_COLORS=
- SET MW_HOTKEY=
-
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- MultiWord V1.1 Specifications
- -----------------------------
-
- Source language: Microsoft C v6.0
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- Program Size: 17 kbytes
- Memory used: 28 kbytes
- DOS version: 2.0 and above.
- Video Modes: MDA,HERCULES,CGA,EGA,VGA
- Hard Disk: Not required
-
- Dictionary Size: 320 kbytes
- 9,242 main entries
- 62,320 words
-
- Dictionary data is compressed, decompression is
- accomplished 'on the fly' during word lookups.
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- Digital Crypto Registration
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- Copyright Notice and Software License
-
- This document; all accompanying program files and data are copyrighted by
- Digital Crypto and Peter Moreton. The copyright owner hereby licenses you to:
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- Use the software; make as many copies of the software and documentation
- as you wish; give exact copies of the original to anyone; and distribute
- the software and documentation in its unmodified form via electronic means.
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- You are specifically prohibited from charging or requesting donations for any
- such copies, however made. Exception is granted to organizations which charge
- a fee for materials, handling, postage and general overhead.
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- In addition, you are specifically prohibited from making any modifications
- to the MultiWord executable or its data and documentation unless you have a
- license for the use of the source. Under no circumstances is the copyright
- notice embedded in the MultiWord code to be modified or removed.
-
- This is not free software. This license allows you to use this software
- without charge for a period of 30 days. In order to use this software after
- the 30 day period, registration is required. Any such use of the MultiWord
- product is in violation of copyright law and will be prosecuted.
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- Warranty
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- There is no warranty of any kind associated with this software, and the
- copyright owner is not liable for damages of any kind. By using this
- software, you agree to this.
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- Shareware Terms
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- MultiWord is a user-supported program, also known as 'shareware.' You are
- permitted under the terms of this license to use this software for 30 days
- without any payments, for evaluation purposes. If you continue to use this
- software past this point, you must register your copy as outlined below.
-
- Registration for the MultiWord program, is a one-time fee of $24-95. Payment
- of this fee entitles you to:
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- 1. Legally use MultiWord on a single PC and laptop PC.
- 2. An updated disk with the latest version of the MultiWord program
- 3. An enlarged dictionary file
- How to register
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- Print this file, fill out and return the order form that follows.
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