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Description of Word Hound
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Word Hound is a combined dictionary and thesaurus for Acorn's Risc-OS range
of computers. It allows fast and convenient access to full definitions, and
alternatives for over 30,000 words.
Word Hound will also comunicate with many other applications allowing the
passing of words in both directions (eg. passing a word from a word
processor to Word Hound, and then passing an alternative word back to the
word processor for replacement.
With Computer Concepts' Impression application there is a direct hotlink
allowing even better comunication between the applications.
It allows 3 different searches :
1) The Word Hound (normal) Search - A search unique to Word Hound and it's
little brother 'Mini Hound'. This search takes a word and looks for words of
the same stem, etc. Thus it ignores 'ing', 'ed' endings, etc. and also
compensates for differences between British and American spellings.
2) The 'Wild Card' search can use both * and # wildcards to search for words
contained in the index files.
3) The 'Sounds Like' search searches for words that are similar in sound to
what it typed in. Useful for when you can't remember the spelling.
Word Hound also allows the user to create new data files, or edit the
existing ones, by the use of some special tools that decompress data and
index files, create index files for thesaurus data files, and compress data
and index files.
At just over 3.5 Meg Word Hound is a hard disc application (the vast
majority of this is data), but it only requires about 200k memory to run so
works on computers with only 1 Meg available.
Word Hound is a SHAREWARE application. This means that it is freely
available from various sources (eg. PD libraries, BBSs, mail servers and ftp
sites), but continued use (more than 2 weeks) requires registration.
Registration for Word Hound costs just 5 pounds sterling for a single user
(10 pounds for a site licence). If you would like a copy of Word Hound and
you can not find it elsewhere, you can obtain a copy upon registration
(U.K. only) by sending 5 blank 3.5in discs (formatted to 800k) with 6 pounds
(includes 1 pound to cover return postage and packing and time, etc.)
(11 pounds for site licence) to :
Mr. I.J.Palmer,
40 Birch Crescent,
Aylesford,
Kent. ME20 7QE.
Registration for Word Hound covers Mini Hound, and vice versa.
Cheques payable to 'Mr. I.J.Palmer' acceptable (must be drawn on U.K. bank),
no resposibility can be taken for cash sent through the post. Please make
sure all discs sent are formatted to 800k and are blank (also preferably
with labels attached), failure to ensure this will only delay their return.
Correspondence can also be sent to the above address, or via e-mail
to ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk.
Word Hound is currently (Apr 1993) at version 1.20. Registered users with
earlier versions can update either by e-mail (free) or by sending a blank
(formatted) disc to the above address (plus about £1 for return p&p, etc.).
Users of version 1.00 who wish to register and/or upgrade to version 1.20
will need to send 2 discs due to major differences between v1.00 and all
other versions (this upgrade can not be done via e-mail due to size).