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WinSpell
Version 3.05
WinSpell is Copyright (c) 1991-1994
by Tom Hite and R&TH Inc.
All Rights Reserved
For information, call R&TH Inc. at:
(214) 783-8641 or (319) 362-6242
This Copy of WinSpell is for Demonstration purposes only.
REQUEST:
Please read this entire document. Release notes, troubleshooting
information and helpful hints follow the licensing information below.
DISCLAIMER:
R&TH Inc. and any Copyright holders make no warranty of any kind,
either express or implied, including but not limited to implied
warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose,
with respect to this software and accompanying documentation.
IN NO EVENT SHALL R&TH INC. OR ANY MENTIONED COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS
PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, OR
OTHER LOSS, ARISING FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS PROGRAM,
EVEN IF R&TH INC. HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
LICENSE:
By installing this program, WinSpell 3.05d, here after known as
Program, you accept the terms and conditions as per this licence
agreement:
R&TH Inc. will have no obligation to provide technical support or updates
or upgrades to Company under this Agreement. R&TH Inc. licenses the
Software solely on an "AS IS" basis.
Users are granted a limited license to use the Program for a single
evaluation period not to exceed 30 days in order to determine if it
suits their needs. Any other use of the Program or use past this
period requires that you obtain a Licensed, non-demonstration copy
of the Program through R&TH Inc. or your local software store.
You may copy this version of the Program, and only this version,
for the purpose of allowing others to try it, subject to the above
restrictions as well as the following.
If copied and distributed, the Program must be distributed in
unmodified form, including all programs, dynamic link libraries,
documentation, and other files. File compression (archival) is
allowed as long as the compressed version is expandable identically
to an uncompressed copy and includes all files as the original
copy.
The Program may not be included, either in part or in whole, with
any other product for any reason whatsoever without a license from
R&TH Inc.
No charge or payment may be levied or accepted for the Program
for any reason whatsoever.
Bulletin Board system operators may post the Program on their BBS
for downloading by their users without written permission only if
the above conditions are met, and only if no special fee is
necessary to access the WinSpell files with the exception of
general BBS usage fees.
Distributors of User-Supported and Public Domain software must,
without exception, obtain written permission from R&TH INC. before
distributing the Program and must follow the above conditions.
RELEASE NOTES:
WinSpell now has automatic (built in) support for many of the
online communications programs, such as WinCIM, WAOL
(America Online), and many Internet mail packages. WinSpell can
spell check and correct your online communications, e-mails and
other transactions directly in the online packages with just
a click of the mouse.
WinSpell 3.05 has some slick new abilities in terms of checking
and correcting documents in place. The New features are fully
documented in WinSpell's online help. The biggest change is
the fact that the macro journal files now have two macros within
them. Thus, the new files with this distribution will overwrite
old files. If you have your own macro files, you will need to
recreate them and add the Clipboard Check macro. See the online
help for details.
The new things to look at are spell checking the text in a
window and WinSpell's new ability to add search and replace
features to many applications that do not have such facilities.
See WinSpell's Search and Replace Dialog Box in the online help
for a discussion of this feature.
The documentation has not been updated as yet to reflect these
changes. Where the User's Manual differs from the online help,
the online help should be considered as the correct information.
For the most part, the changes are minimal in terms of required
documentation, but they add significantly to WinSpell in terms
of ease of use and functionality.
The standard WinSpell Dictionaries are referred to as COMMON.DCT
FULL.DCT throughout the documentation. We have changed their names
to COMMON.WSD and FULL.WSD to more clearly distinguish them from the
User Dictionaries, which use the .DCT extension by default.
WinSpell unchecks the "Use Clipboard Editor" after the initial
Search and Replace operation on the Clipboard. This is because
WinspEdt can and will load multiple copies of itself at WinSpell's
request. You really only want to use one WinspEdt session for
Clipboard correction.
TROUBLE-SHOOTING:
If WinSpell doesn't beep when you misspell a word, either you have
not added the window into which you are typing to WinSpell, or you
have not set your Enable System Sounds check box in the Sounds applet
of the Windows Control Panel. This must be on for WinSpell to be
able to access Windows sound abilities.
WinSpell does not auto-attach its keyboard to your application.
Make sure you have an association (Settings|Associations...
menu item) for the application. If the application does not
have a Search and Replace facility, simply associate it with the
NO_MACRO.JNL file. NO_MACRO.JNL is a file which contains no
pre-recorded keystrokes and thus does nothing. However, since
there is a macro file associated with your application, WinSpell
will auto-attach the keyboard spelling monitor whenever the
application is started.
Your application has a Search and Replace facility but WinSpell
doesn't have a matching journal file. WinSpell can help you create,
store and associate a new Search and Replace macro journal file
to use with your application. See the Help or The User's Manual
and Reference for information about how to create and association
the macro.
Search and Replace operations don't always act quite right.
Some applications have idiosyncrasies with respect to the Search
and Replace dialog boxes they implement. You should generally
close the Search and Replace dialogs after each global correction
of a word in your documents before starting another correction.
Additionally, many presentation applications have additional
options such as Check All Slides or Entire Presentation. Make
sure the correct options are set such that the Search and Replace
operation will catch all your slides. See the WinSpell User's
Manual and Reference for information about using the Search and
Replace document correction facility. Additionally, see the
"Search and Replace" Tips in the WinSpell Help.
INSTALLATION NOTES:
In order to install WinSpell Release 3.0, you must use the
WinSpell installation program. The files are compressed and
cannot simply be copied and renamed.
Delete the versions 1.70 and below of WinSpell completely.
Release 3.0 is not backward compatible with the dictionary files.
If you have personal dictionary files you still want to use,
execute the DCT2ASC utility to convert the dictionaries to a text
file. See your previous documentation for details. WinSpell
Release 3.0 can read text files and merge them into the new
User Dictionaries.
If WinSpell complains about the format of a dictionary and you
have WinSpell 1.70 or below, WinSpell is probably still
attempting to load the older format dictionaries. Use the
Settings/All... dialog box to reference the correct dictionary
(which is where you just installed WinSpell).
If WinSpell complains that the "Table is Full", you are not
running the correct WINSPELL.EXE. Reset the Properties... via
the File/Properties... of the Program Manager. Also, if you
are running the incorrect version, you are probably also
referencing incorrect dictionaries. See the previous paragraph
for details.
The following is a short explanation for each file:
WINSPELL.EXE - WinSpell's main executable. This is the file that
you will want to add to your program manager in
Windows, or have Windows load via the "load=" option
in WIN.INI.
WINSPELL.EXE is required for proper operation.
WINSPEDT.EXE - WinSpell's Accessory Editor. This is a simple
text editor which WinSpell uses to perform Search
and Replace operations on the Clipboard.
WINSPEDT.EXE is required for proper operation.
WINSPDLL.DLL - WinSpell's dynamic link library.
WINSPDLL.DLL is required for proper operation.
WINSPELL.HLP - WinSpell's Help file for use in Windows Help.
WINSPELL.HLP is not required for proper operation.
FULL.WSD - WinSpell Standard Dictionary.
FULL.DCT is generally required for proper operation.
(See the documentation detailed information on this
file).
COMMON.WSD - WinSpell Standard Dictionary.
COMMON.DCT is generally required for proper operation.
(See the documentation detailed information on this
file).
*.JNL - Macro Journal Files for Search and Replace correction
of documents. Although not absolutely required for
proper operation, it is best to keep these files.
INSTALL.EXE - WinSpell's Installation facility
INSTALL.EXE is not required for proper operation
and is not installed with the rest of the program.
README.TXT - This file.
README.TXT is not required for proper operation, but
we thank you for taking the time to read it.