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Thesaur Plus Version 2.2 And Thesaur Version 4.2 Copyright (C) 1989, 1990 By Derrick Burgess All Rights Reserved Derrick Burgess 23311 Schoolcraft St. West Hills, CA 91307 _______ ____|__ | (tm) --| | |------------------- | ____|__ | Association of | | |_| Shareware |__| o | Professionals -----| | |--------------------- |___|___| MEMBER Member of the ASP Since 1988 Thesaur/Plus - Page 2 -- Table of Contents -- ASP Ombudsman statement Page 2 Opening Questions and Answers Page 3 How to Set Up Thesaur Plus Page 4 How to Change the Colors Page 5 How to Remove from Memory Page 5 Hot to Change the Hot Key Page 5 How to use Thesaur Plus and Your Hot-key combination Page 6 Discussion of Options available from the Menu Page 7 Use of Leading Edge Word Processor with Thesaur Plus Page 8 More info on THESAUR and THESPLUS.MOD Page 9 Acknowledgements, Address information. Page 10 Bug Report form Page 11 Registration form Page 12 BE SURE AND READ THE FILE THESPLUS.NEW FOR ANY LAST MINUTE CHANGES/ADDITIONS TO THE PROGRAMS! The following information is provided by the Association of Shareware Professionals regarding problems with authors "This program is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware- related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at P.O. Box 5786, Bellevue, WA 98006 or send a Compuserve message via easyplex to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536" Plus one simple reminder: Not all synonyms have the same meaning or shade of intent. If the proper definition of a word or term is not known or not understood - LOOK IT UP. It is very easy to use the wrong term instead of the proper one. Thesaur/Plus - Page 3 A couple of notes: Thesaur/Plus refers to BOTH Thesaur Plus AND Thesaur Thesaur Plus refers to ONLY Thesaur Plus Thesaur refers to ONLY Thesaur Q> What is Thesaur Plus? A> Thesaur Plus is a pop-up Thesaurus, whenever you need a different word or a different shade of meaning than the word that comes to mind, pop-up Thesaur Plus and get just the word you wanted, but couldn't quite remember! Q> Well then what is Thesaur? and how are they different? A> Thesaur is also a thesaurus, but it is not a memory resident program - and you can't pop it up whenever you want. Other than that Thesaur uses the same commands, and only needs DOS 2.0 and one floppy drive to work compared to the Plus requirements of DOS 3.0 and a Hard Drive. Thesaur also adds a couple of features not found in Thesaur Plus. Q> Are both Thesaur and Thesaur Plus easy to use? A> Most Definitely! Thesaur/Plus was designed with simplicity in mind. You only need to remember your Hot-key (the key combination you use to pop Thesaur Plus up over what you are doing now) to use the Thesaur Plus, and you only need to start Thesaur - All available commands are shown in a menu after you get started! And both programs use the same commands to make it even easier! Thesaur/Plus - Page 4 How to Install Thesaur/Plus Thesaur/Plus should reside on your Hard Drive for best performance, so you will need to copy all the files from this disk to the subdirectory of your choice on the Hard drive. (Thesaur/Plus do not care what drive or directory they are on, but all the files MUST stay together in the same directory!) ---> Also, do not move the files around if Thesaur Plus is in memory - First remove it from memory before moving the data files.) Once you have all the files where you would like, you can then run CONFIG.EXE to change the Default Colors, and Hot Key. Once you have copied the files (If you wish) and changed the Default Colors and HotKey (Again, If you wish) - to Load Thesaur Plus into memory just run the file THESPLUS.EXE, or if you are not in the current drive or directory you will have to add those too. To run Thesaur just run the file THESAUR.EXE. Once again the installation instructions are.. 1) Copy all files on this disk to a subdirectory on your Hard Drive 2) Make that Subdirectory the Default (ex. CD C:\THESPLUS) 3) Run CONFIG.EXE (Not Required) 4) Run THESPLUS.EXE or THESAUR.EXE Thesaur/Plus - Page 5 HOW TO CHANGE COLORS (If using a Color Monitor) If you want to change the colors that Thesaur/Plus use then enter this command from the DOS prompt: CONFIG COLORS Colors are changed the next time you Pop Up Thesaur Plus or run Thesaur. ->The files Config.Exe and ThesPlus.Cfg must be in the current directory. HOW TO CHANGE THE HOT KEY To change the Hot Key for Thesaur Plus you must enter this command from the DOS prompt: CONFIG HOTKEY The Hot Key is changed the next time you load Thesaur Plus into memory. ->The files Config.Exe and ThesPlus.Cfg must be in the current directory HOW TO REMOVE THESAUR PLUS FROM MEMORY To remove Thesaur Plus from memory you must enter this command from the DOS prompt: THESPLUS /U Thesaur/Plus - Page 6 HOW TO USE THESAUR PLUS To Load Thesaur Plus into memory, just run the THESPLUS.EXE file. you may need to add the proper drive and directory that the .EXE is in so DOS can find the program. NOTE: Your personal Hot Key is shown when Thesaur Plus is first loaded into memory, and also if you try to re-load Thesaur Plus into memory. After you hit the Hot Key, Thesaur Plus will automatically look for the word that the cursor is on, or the word that was immediately to the left of the cursor. If the cursor was not on or next to a word, then you are asked for the word that you would like looked up. Now you are given a Menu of Options of what you can do next. These Options are discussed in detail on the following pages. Thesaur/Plus - Page 7 OPTIONS (Documented Options on the Menu) F Find Another Word If you want to start a new search for a different a word B Back Track If you use <RET> to go to alternate word, you can use this command to go back to the previous word I Information My Address for correspondence, and registration information. If you are not registered to use this program there is a 14% chance that this screen will be shown upon pop-up of Thesaur Plus. Q Quit Pop back down to underlying application ESC Quit Pop back down to underlying application <RET> Return or Enter - Display Alternate word The alternate word that is looked up is the word pointed to by the arrow key in the middle of the screen. To move the arrow key to the word you are interested in, use the Up and Down arrow keys. Up and Down Arrows are used for scrolling through the synonyms for each word. PgUp and PgDn keys are used to scroll to the previous/next word in the thesaurus. THESAUR includes the following commands A Add a Synonym Add any Synonym to the main word (Synonym does not need to be in the database already) INS Add a new word to the database - No Synonyms yet D Delete Synonym Delete one of the synonyms shown (To either make room for a more appropriate word (max 30 syn's per word) or to just remove a poor choice of words on my part. There is no Information screen in Thesaur. Thesaur/Plus - Page 8 ************************************************************** Use of the Leading Edge Word Processor with Thesuar Plus This Applies to the 1.3 and 1.5 (at least) versions of the LEWP. Load Thesaur Plus as instructed in this manual. To access Thesaur Plus, instead of just using the Hot Key, you must. 1. Press Control-Escape 2. Enter your HotKey 3. Use the program and exit. 4. Press Control-Escape again. Not all version of the LEWP require these steps, but some do! ************************************************************** Thesaur/Plus - Page 9 THESAUR THESAUR.EXE is a standalone thesaurus - it is very similar to Thesuar Plus, but does not become memory resident, only requires DOS 2.0, can be run off of a floppy system, and is faster than Thesaur Plus. The commands to use ThesEdit are the very same as Thesaur Plus, but there are a couple of added instructions which are: A) Add a Synonym D) Delete Synonym With these two commands you can add or delete any synonym you want from the database of synonyms. THESPLUS.MOD Whenever you use the commands A or D the actions that are done are added to a file called THESPLUS.MOD - DO NOT DELETE this file. This information will be used whenever you either upgrade to a newer version of Thesaur Plus where I provide a substantially better database (This way you will not have to lose all the work you did to customize your list), or you can send the list to me and I will include your changes in the next release (Preferred by me - that way everyone can benefit by your effort). ================================================================== | Because I would really like to get ahold of your THESPLUS.MOD | | file if you make many additions to the database, I will | | consider that as partial registration ($1 for every 20 words | | to add to the database - up to $17 of the $20 registration if | | you provide me with 340 new and accurate synonyms!) | ================================================================== Also when you add a new synonym there is a certain amount of wasted space (noted in brackets in THESPLUS.MOD) in the database this is only on the order of 25 or so bytes for each synonym added, but it is using unneeded space - To reclaim this space use REINDEX.EXE Thesaur/Plus - Page 10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to give the names of the books that I used for reference when compiling this thesaurus. The New American Roget's College Thesaurus (in dictionary form) Revised by Philip D. Moorehead Signet Books, 1985, New York, New York Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus G. & C. Merrill 1976-First Edition Webster's New World Thesaurus (Funk & Wagnalls edition) Prepared by Charlton G. Laird and updated by William D. Lutz Simon & Schuster Inc., 1985, New York, New York Plus a special thank you to all who helped make this program a success! ADDRESS INFORMATION: If you have any suggestions or recommendations to add to this program - I want to hear them. My best suggestions have come from users themselves. How you can reach me: Preference Derrick Burgess Address: 23311 Schoolcraft St. #1 West Hills, CA 91307 Phone #: (818) 347 - 2910 #3 CIS: Compuserve ID: 71750,2560 #2 - fast reply! InterLink: InterLink, Shareware Conference #4 Derrick Burgess PC-RELAY: PC-Relay, Shareware Conference #5 Derrick Burgess R/O Capable Canada Remote Systems: Main Conf, IBM Conf #2b As Derrick Burgess Thesaur Plus v2.0 - Page 11 Bug Report If you encounter a Bug in Thesaur/Plus, or incompatibility of certain files when using Thesaur Plus, please fill in this form and mail it to me along with a SASE if you would like a reply. Problem? Can You Duplicate it? How? What type of Computer do you use? Dos Version: Name :_____________________________ Address :__________________________________________ __________________________________________ Phone # :_____________________________ Please put any additional information that you think is needed on the back. Send to: Derrick Burgess Thesaur/Plus 23311 Schoolcraft St. West Hills, CA 91307 (818) 347 - 2910 Thesaur Plus Registration/Shareware Form Page - 12 Version 2.2 - Released April 1990 _____________________________________________ Your Address: _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Country (if not U.S.A) ______________ Online Addresses: CIS:_______________Other:____________________ Phone Number: ____________________ Date __________ Thesaur Plus Registration: [ ] $20.00 Includes: Latest Version of Thesaur Plus Complete support via: U.S. Mail, BBS, PC-Relay and Compuserve, Phone Thesaur Plus Latest Shareware Version [ ] $ 6.00 Unregistered Shareware Version for you to try out - May be newer than this one. ($5 applied to registration) Credit for Thesplus.Mod file (If you send on disk) ______ Words @ $.05 - $ Outside U.S. + Canada $ + $ 5.00 Total $ _________ Where did you hear about Thesaur Plus? ____________________ (If BBS - Which one?) What reasons prompted you to register? ____________________ ___________________________________________________________ What type of machine do you use? __________________________ Include any comments and problems if any on the back Please send check to: Derrick Burgess Thesaur Plus 23311 Schoolcraft St. West Hills, CA 91307 Thank You!