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┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ BESTHES POP-UP THESAURUS v1.55 │
│ SEE BELOW FOR PRODUCT INFORMATION │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ This is a VENDINFO Product Information Record │
│ │
│ This record is a means of conveying information about a software │
│ product from the author to distributors and users. It contains a │
│ normal, "human-readable" section (you're reading it now), followed │
│ by a compressed data record. The data record contains a great │
│ deal of information in a form useable by automated tools. This │
│ allows BBSes, disk vendors, etc. to test automatically for │
│ permission to distribute, and to automatically extract product │
│ information for use in BBS files databases, vendor catalogs, etc. │
│ │
│ The VENDINFO file standard is published and is freely useable. │
│ │
│ The VENDINFO toolset includes a free end-user viewer, processing │
│ tools for use by distributors (BBSes, shareware disk vendors, │
│ etc.), and the editor used by author/publishers to produce these │
│ records. These tools are either free or very-low cost shareware. │
│ The toolset can be obtained from many sources, including the │
│ originators of VENDINFO: │
│ │
│ Rams' Island Software Voice: 303-841-2848 CompuServe: 76244,324 │
│ 7644 E. Lakecliff Way BBS: 303-841-6269 FidoNet: 1:104/333 │
│ Parker, CO 80134-5904 USA RIME: RAMSISLE │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
VENDINFO standard v1.00, produced by VendEdit v1.00, 10-Nov-1994
===== Product Information ==============================
Product: BESTHES POP-UP THESAURUS
Version: 1.55
Version Date: 8-Nov-1994
Product Type: Software
Basic Distribution Policy (see License, below, for details):
Shareware, subject to distribution restrictions
Product Description: BESTHES v1.55 - <ASP> SHAREWARE THESAURUS
Complementary to your wordproc. thesaurus.
Gives a wide range of related words per
entry. Modular expandable to 28,635 entries x
210 rel.words/entry (avg.) = 6,013,350(!)
words (equiv.20 heavy volumes in book form).
Rqr .47K of RAM. Loadable into high memory.
Usable from within your wordprocessor or as a
standalone application. Reg. $25
Category: Thesaurus
Keywords: THESAURUS SYNONYMOUS WORDING WORDS SYNONYMS
DICTIONARY
Required Packages: BESTH155
This Package: BESTH155
Required Configuration
Processor Family: Intel 80x86 (minimum 8086/8088)
Minimum OS: MS-DOS 3.2
Standard RAM: 47K
Hard Drive Space: 300K
Required:
Keyboard
Won't Work With:
Mouse
Digitizer
Joystick
Orders:
Address: Language Software Co.
Moria 52/4,
POB 3080,
Beersheva 84130,
Israel
FAX: 972 7 433 103
CompuServe: 100274,655
Internet: 100274.655@compuserve.com
Support:
Address: Language Software Co.
Moria 52/4,
POB 3080,
Beersheva 84130,
Israel
FAX: 972 7 433 103
CompuServe: 100274,655
Internet: 100274.655@compuserve.com
===== Information for Users ("READ-ME") ================
If you use a wordprocessor frequently, you know how useful the
standard thesaurus included among its utilities is. It provides
you with a handful of synonyms that you use to better express
your thoughts or simply avoid repetition.
In many cases, however, your idea is not fully developed, or you
can't think of a suitable word to express it. You turn to your
conventional thesaurus for help . . . and you find that it is
insufficient to your needs.
YOU NEED A COMPLEMENTARY THESAURUS!
In these cases you need a thesaurus that places at your disposal
not only synonyms, but a wide range of conceptually related word
s.
It would not only enable you to find the appropriate word, but
also help you to further develop and crystallize your thought.
We are proud to offer you this complementary electronic
thesaurus.
BesThes has a basic vocabulary of 16,520 entries with an average
of 185 related words per entry, expandable to 28,635 entries
with 210 related words per entry by means of two additional
vocabulary-enrichment modules. It is a 3,056,200-/6,013,350-
word thesaurus, which in book form would require 10/20 heavy
volumes, respectively.
For comparison, among the best-known thesauruses in book form we
find:
1) CHAMBERS, with a stated 18,000 entries and 350,000 words,
i.e., less than 20 related words per entry, in a volume of
750 pages.(C) 1988 by W.& R. Chambers Ltd. and Cambridge
University Press.
2) THE RANDOM HOUSE THESAURUS COLLEGE EDITION, with a stated
275,000 words (something like 12,000 entries with an average
of 23 related words per entry) in a volume of 812 pages.
(C) 1984 by Random House Inc.
And no less important, it is friendly and ultrafast.
===== Packing List =====================================
As released by the author or publisher, this package contained the
following files in addition to this VENDINFO.DIZ:
Filename Size Date Time CRC32
READ_ME.1ST 2122 8-Nov-1994 01:55a 0FD4D22E
BESTHES.CDF 83048 8-Nov-1994 01:55a 89089DD7
BESTHES.COM 50150 8-Nov-1994 01:55a 11084F99
BESTHES.DIC 167202 8-Nov-1994 01:55a 799F2D16
FILE_ID.DIZ 396 8-Nov-1994 01:55a 0E217CED
BESTHES.DOC 46290 8-Nov-1994 01:55a 21A2E89A
INSTALL.DOC 4137 8-Nov-1994 01:55a FDBA17F5
REGISTER.DOC 17437 8-Nov-1994 01:55a 9103B1EB
LICENSE.TXT 1351 8-Nov-1994 01:55a 2670670F
OMBUDSMA.TXT 767 8-Nov-1994 01:55a 07225984
VENDOR.TXT 785 8-Nov-1994 01:55a 9D19354D
===== Installation =====================================
- 1 -
PRINTING BESTHES' DOC
To print any of BesThes' DOC - REGISTER.DOC, BESTHES.DOC or
INSTALL.DOC - type at DOS command line:
COPY C:\DIR\filename.DOC PRN/B <ENTER>
Where C is the drive and DIR the directory where the file is
found. (Replace filename by the name of the file.)
INSTALLATION
Nothing is simpler than installing BesThes.
BesThes consists of seven files:
1) BESTHES.COM, 2) BESTHES.DIC, 3) BESTHES.CDF, 4) BESTHES.DOC,
5) INSTALL.DOC, 6)OMBUDSMA.TXT, and 7)REGISTER.DOC
The first three are the operative ones, and must be together in
the same subdirectory. Also bear in mind that:
1) The path cannot include extensions within the names of the
subdirectories, e.g.
C:\WORDPROC.ENG\THESAURU\BESTHES.DIC - wrong.
C:\WORDPROC\THESAURU\BESTHES.DIC - correct.
2) The only workable drives are A, B and C, (if you have a DOS 6
DOUBLE-SPACED drive C you must copy BESTHES' files onto the
HOST drive of C).
D:\WORDPROC\THESAURU\BESTHES.DIC - wrong.
3) If you have a partitioned fixed disk, you must place BesThes
in the first partition.
4) A DOS v3.2, or subsequent, is required.
IMPORTANT! Don't change the names of BesThes' files.
-*-*-
BesThes may be loaded in the high memory, thus saving
conventional memory for other applications.
-*-*-
When calling it up for first time, BesThes may report that
its files are too fragmented. In this case, you must do the
following:
- 2 -
1) Rename the BesThes operative files.
2) Copy, or PKUNZIP for a second time the BesThes operative
files onto your fixed disk. Since the overly fragmented area
of your disk is now filled with the renamed files, the new
ones will be copied onto another area. (It doesn't matter if
you copy them in the same subdirectory or in a different
one.)
3) Try BesThes again. If it works, delete the renamed files,
and enjoy BesThes. If it doesn't - which is highly
improbable, repeat the procedure, copying BesThes onto a
third area of your disk.
-*-*-
You don't have to know anything about BesThes in order to enjoy
it. Each BesThes screen includes a complete description of all
relevant instructions.
Type BESTHES (including the path, if needed) and press <ENTER>.
Read the screen carefully and go on.
In any case, it is a good idea to read BESTHES.DOC.
-*-*-
BesThes has been carefully debugged, but not in conjunction with
all existing wordprocessors. Therefore, we recommend that you
save your file before calling up BesThes from within your
wordprocessor.
-*-*-
Incompatibility with QEMM, prior to v7.04, has been reported by
some users. We have tested Besthes successfully with QEMM
7.04, which is avalaible to all QEMM 7 users through bulletin
board systems such as BIX, CompuServe, and QuarterDeck BBS, as
well as directly from QuarterDeck Office Systems.
-*-*-
IMPORTANT
Always keep a backup copy of BesThes on hand. Any alteration of
its code, which can be the result of various causes, will lead
BesThes to suspect the presence of a virus. From that moment on,
the altered copy will no longer work.
===== Warranty =========================================
If a serious bug is reported within three months after
registration, we will either fix it and send a corrected
copy to the registrant, or refund the registration fee.
Following the initial three-month period, please feel free to
turn to us with any problems you may have.
By mail: Language Software Co., POB 3080, Beersheva 84130,
ISRAEL.
By FAX: 972 7 433 103
By E-mail: INTERNET:100274.655@compuserve.com
We guarantee an answer within 48 hours. For air-mail
correspondence allow one week each way.
===== License for Use and Distribution =================
BesThes is a shareware software copyrighted (1994) by Noah
Nissani, who retains all the rights therein.
BesThes' non-registered copies are provided at no cost to the
user for his appraisal. Feel free to share it with your
friends, but you must give it away unaltered, with all the files
of the BesThes package intact. The license to use a
non-registered copy is limited to a reasonable trial period.
Using BesThes beyond this reasonable trial period requires a
registration fee.
Distribution of non-registered copies by BBSs, CD-ROMs and user
groups is free, as well as distribution to BBSs and users
groups, subject to ASP guide lines of "full disclosure".
Distribution of non-registered copies of BesThes to final
users for any kind of remuneration is subject to ASP guide lines
of "full disclosure". The price demanded for a copy must not
exceed $10.
In any case, BESTHES must be distributed separately and
unaltered, with all the files of the package intact, as they
appear in the present BESTH155.ZIP file.
Distributing BesThes along with another program or product, as
well as the distribution of registered copies of BesThes, are
strictly forbidden unless specifically established in a written
authorization.
===== Compressed Data Record Follows ===================
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