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- | SPELL 1.4 User's Guide |
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- HOW TO USE THE SPELL PROGRAM:
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- SPELL is a program that allows you to detect and correct spelling mistakes
- in disk files. SPELL should work with files produced by just about any word
- processor. SPELL has been tested on files produced by the 1ST WORD
- word processor.
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- THE WORD LIST:
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- SPELL uses a disk file named "words.txt". This file contains all words that
- SPELL recognizes as being correctly spelled. When you start using SPELL, this
- file will be empty, and SPELL will wonder if every word in your document is
- misspelled. As you check the spelling of more and more files, SPELL will know
- about more and more words. Eventually SPELL will have a dictionary containing
- most of the words that you use, and will only ask you if misspelled and
- unfamiliar words are misspelled.
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- RUNNING THE PROGRAM:
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- When the program is first run, the file "words.txt" is created on the default
- disk. Make sure that SPELL has write access to the disk on which SPELL is
- stored.
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- Then all words stored in the file "words.txt" are loaded into memory. If SPELL
- is being run for the first time, no words will be loaded.
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- Now you are asked for the name of the file for which the spelling is to be
- corrected. Enter the filename that you want checked. SPELL must have write
- access to this file.
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- After the file to be spelled is specified, whenever SPELL encounters a word
- that is not in the file words.txt, you may:
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- (1) correct the spelling of the word
- (2) add the word to the dictionary
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- To correct the spelling of the word, type in the word as you would like it
- to appear in the document being checked.
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- If the word is correctly spelled, or if you've just corrected it, then you may
- want to insert it into the dictionary. To add the word to the dictionary,
- place the mouse in the appropriate box and press the left mouse button. When
- you add a word to the dictionary, whenever SPELL sees that word again, it will
- know that it is correctly spelled, and will not ask you about it.
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- UPDATING THE DICTIONARY:
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- Why do you need to update the dictionary? Well, every time you start the
- program, the dictionary contains all the words that were in the file
- "words.txt". As you insert new words into the dictionary they are stored
- in your computer's main memory, and are NOT placed in the disk file
- "words.txt".
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- If you choose to update the dictionary by pressing the left mouse button
- in the "yes" box, the new words in main memory will be inserted into the
- file "words.txt". When the program is done, "words.txt" will contain all the
- words it had before running SPELL, and also the new ones you inserted.
- When you run SPELL again, it will know that the new words are correct, and
- and will not ask you about them when it encounters them.
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- If you choose not to update the dictionary by pressing the left mouse button
- in the "no" box, the file "words.txt" will not be changed - it will have
- the same words that it had when you started running SPELL, and will not have
- the new words that you inserted when SPELL was running.
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- FOR MORE INFORMATION:
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- If you would like more information about SPELL, please send a stamped,
- self-addressed envelope to the following address:
-
- Eric Bergman-Terrell
- Cadenza Software, Ltd.
- 1704 Imperial Ridge
- Las Cruces, NM 88001
- USA
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- If you are outside the United States, please enclose sufficient international
- reply coupons (available at post offices throughout the world).
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