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- WU-01: Spelling & Thesarus
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- Cross Check
- Cross Computing Incorporated
- $10
- #7074/1308
- is a fast spelling checker an excellent interactive mode in which you can
- page/scroll up and down the list of misspelled words. Options allow you to
- view words in context, replace words in the file, and add words to the
- dictionary.
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- The non-interactive mode sends a list of misspelled words to a text file.
- Utilities let you convert the dictionary file to a plain text file for easy
- modification and convert text files back to the dictionary file format.
- Another utility makes it easy to delete files from the dictionary without
- doing a conversion, and of course words can be added in the interactive mode.
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- CC allows a general dictionary plus additional specialized dictionaries. This
- allows you to minimize the number of words that CC has to check against when
- you are dealing with special types of documents. Although the general
- dictionary that comes on the disk only has 16,000, we do not consider this a
- serious limitation because it is easy to add lists of words. This is an
- excellent program and at $10 to register, appears to be an absolute steal.
- Requries ANSI.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS. (See your DOS manual.)
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- Legal Dictionary
- #7074/1321
- is a list of words peculiar to the legal profession. This is simply a list of
- words in straight ASCII text - not very exciting by itself, but it could be
- very useful for law offices when imported into CROSS CHECK.
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- A user writes: "There are no directions on how to install this program." This
- is not a program. It is a LIST OF LEGAL WORDS. It is meant to be imported into
- a spelling checking program.
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- Sharespell
- Acropolis Software
- $20
- #7074/1786
- is a stand-alone spelling checker with a 112,000+ word dictionary to which you
- can add more words. It displays the text of the file it is checking as it
- checks it so that you can see the context at all times. It displays a list of
- possible corrections when it finds a word not in its dictionary. The program
- can handle words longer than 20 characters.
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- Interestingly, it will display multiple words where appropriate. For example,
- when we tested it on a Reviews file, it came across the program name
- GRADESCAN, one of its alternative choices was GRADE SCAN -- two legitimate
- words when not run together.
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- Unlike CROSS CHECK, ShareSpell does not support a second specialized
- dictionary file nor does it allow importing word lists, but its dictionary is
- several times larger than Cross Check's.
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- James L. Warren, La Mesa, CA: "When I try to load a .WRI file into Windows'
- Write after checking it with ShareSpell, my system locks up."
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- PsL: ShareSpell may only be used on straight ASCII files. Write, like most word
- processors, puts lots of non-text characters in files unless you save them as
- Text Only. When you reload the spell-checked file, Write will (optionally)
- convert it back to Write format.
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- Thesaur Plus
- Burgess, Derrick ASP
- $20
- #7074/1804
- is a memory resident thesaurus. By using EMS or disk swapping, it uses only
- 24k of DOS RAM. It contains over 50,000 words, plus the ability to add and
- delete any synonym. A non-tsr version is included.
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- SpelChek
- Floyd, Edwin
- $0
- #7508/3337 [2 disks]
- is a high speed, batch-oriented spelling checker. It writes any words not found
- in the dictionary to an output file. TP6 and TASM source code is included.
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- JORJ [JORJ-A, JORJ-O] 08-93 CD
- Jorj Software Co.
- $30
- #7372/2501 [3 disks]
- is a 58,000-word dictionary on a disk. It is a quick and easy way to
- check the spelling or meaning of a word. You can enter a word the way it
- sounds and JORJ will locate the actual spelling. Also included are
- Postal state abbreviations, weights and measures, and foreign words and
- phrases. A version is included that uses EMS/XMS.
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- DO-Spell 3.71d 08-93 CD
- Kleijn, Han
- $0
- #27781/4009 [2 disks]
- is a English and Dutch spelling checker. It comes with a 60,000-word list in
- English, a 54,744-word list in Dutch, and a 3000-word list in German (this
- comes to us from The Netherlands). As a 116k TSR, it can easily be used in
- conjunction with any editor or word processor. It works simply by reading the
- screen and highlighting words not in it the selected word list, which it does
- very quickly.
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- English-Japanese Dictionary 1.4
- Breen, Jim
- $0
- #20151 [2 disks]
- is an English-Japanese (kana & kanji) translator. You type in the word or phrase
- you need in English and the program displays the Japanese equivalent in kana
- and kanji. Requires the ability to read at least hiragana and katakana.
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- MultiWord
- Digital Crypto & Peter Moreton
- $24-$95
- #2908
- is a thesaurus that can operate as a stand-alone or as a 28k TSR, pop-up
- program. MultiWord has over 9000 main entries with over 60,000 synonyms. When
- you select a word it will automatically feed it back to the program you are
- using.
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- PopSaurus
- Acropolis Software
- $18
- #7819/4591 [2 disks]
- is a pop-up thesaurus. It can operate as a 10K TSR or stand-alone program. It
- has 8,282 entry points into 70,793 words. Requires a hard disk or high density
- floppy.
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- SpellRite
- JMA Software
- $32
- #3778
- is a spelling assistance program. It brings up a large list of words that you
- can easily scroll or search through. A 31K TSR version and a non-resident
- version of the program are provided. A hard disk or dual-floppy system is
- required.
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