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- WORD FOR THE DAY [WORD4DAY]
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- The WORD FOR THE DAY program will select a random word from the file
- unusual.lst. To run it, type: WORD4DAY
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- Note that the file unusual.lst *must* be in the current working directory,
- unless the APPEND command in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file points to the directory it
- is in.
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- If you wish the WORD4DAY program to give you a "word for the day" auto-
- matically each time the computer boots (is turned on), do the following.
- Place the word4day.exe file in a directory pointed to by the PATH command in
- the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Add an APPEND command to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file
- pointing to the directory the unusual.lst file resides in. Finally add the
- command: WORD4DAY at the end of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. [These directions are
- for experienced DOS users. See your DOS manual for more detailed
- explanations of what PATH, APPEND, and AUTOEXEC.BAT are about.] An easy
- alternative is to put everything in the "root" (\) directory. You still need
- to put WORD4DAY at the end of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
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- If you learn a new word each day (using WORD4DAY), then in only 15 years or
- so you will have painlessly learned most of the "difficult" words in the
- OSPD3 (tm) and be well on your way to becoming a Scrabble (tm) master.
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- If you absolutely insist, you can use WORD4DAY with any other ASCII file
- formatted as one word per line, carriage return terminated. Just rename the
- file to UNUSUAL.LST and follow the installation procedures above.
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- WORD4DAY is now also available for UNIX systems. Contact the author for
- details.
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