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About the SageWords interactive word processor
What is SageWords?
SageWords is an interactive word processor designed to make
all tasks of document creation or program creation easier and
more productive. SageWords is composed of nearly 30,000 lines of
source code compiled in Borland's Turbo Pascal version 4.0
command line compiler. SageWords has every feature that any
commercial word processor you have ever seen has, plus more, and
in addition SageWords is faster. SageWords also takes up little
active memory, and thus allows other applications or programs to
run concurrently.
SageWords is designed to work with other software!
SageWords has macros, which will allow you to actually write very
useful applications using it's built-in macro editor. SageWords
really performs when included on a Hard drive. SageWords can
access and use the 100,000 word Random House Dictionary, and the
100,000 word Random House Thesaurus included in Borland's Turbo
Lightning spell checker. SageWords uses it's online 500 most
common words spell checker and if it fails to locate the word you
want to check it will then call Turbo Lightning for help.
Hardware Requirements
SageWords is compatible with all IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 or
true clones with at least 256K of ram and Two floppy disks or one
hard disk and one floppy disk. SageWords is compatible with all
Monochrome, CGA, or EGA monitors. SageWords supports all major
printers and in addition is able to make printer definition files
(.PDF) for all other printers you may use. SageWords also
requires IBM or Microsoft DOS version 2.0 or higher.
SageWords Features:
SageWords is able to shell command.com to do other tasks.
What this means is that if you suddenly discover a task that
requires another application, such as formatting another data
disk, for instance, you do not need to do a quick save and exit
SageWords, but rather all you need to do is select the Operating
System option from the pull-down or shortcut keys menu and do
your task. Upon completion, simply type exit to return to
SageWords exactly where you left off. SageWords adds it's own
unique prompt while in shell as a reminder.
SageWords has context sensitive online help, over 78,000
bytes of it in fact. Pull-down and pop-up help menus assure you
will easily find the information you need. Help is supplied in
small pages which the user can flip through as needed. When
finished with help the user simply presses the escape key to
return to processing words. SageWords also has "short-cut" keys.
These are the familiar WordStar (Tm) commands. This gives the
user the advantage of not having to stop and pull down a menu to
do a quick save for instance. Rather the user can press a control
key combination which speeds up productivity and ease of use.
SageWords has all fonts supported by all major printers,
such as Bold, DoubleStrike, Underscore, Compressed, Italic,
Superscript, and Subscript. SageWords is totally user
customizeable. What this means is that the user can set Tabs,
Justification, Margins, Autoindent, Insert or Overstrike mode,
Display colors, whatever! SageWords is optimized to make all of
these tasks easy and enjoyable. SageWords saves text in ASCII
format, so files generated with SageWords can be printed outside
of SageWords complete with justification. SageWords also converts
WordStar (Tm) or ANSI format files to ascii format so that the
user can work with files created with other word processors or
report generators.
Getting Started with SageWords
The file SW.TXT contains the complete text used in creating
the online help supplied by SageWords, and will give you a fair
idea of the power and features of SageWords. It can be printed
from SageWords, or by using the DOS command copy sw.txt prn. The
file SWINST.EXE is an install file for SageWords. It isn't
necessary to use the install to operate SageWords right away, but
the install procedure initializes the quick keyboard and macro
features. To use SageWords simply type sw [Enter]. SageWords
will pop up in the editing screen ready to type. If you add a
filename after the sw, SageWords will open a file by that name
and then be ready to use. For instance, if you had a file named
LETTER.DOC that you wanted to make changes to you could simply
type sw letter.doc [Enter].
SageWords is totally crash proof and there is nothing you
can do to hurt it; nevertheless it is a good idea to make a copy
of the SageWords master diskette and work from the copy. Since
SageWords is not copy protected a working copy can easily be made
using either the DOS copy or Diskcopy commands. The user will
notice that SageWords will eventually teach him or her the
quick-key combinations. The upper-left corner of the screen
displays the appropriate command at any time while in the main or
sub menus. The F10 key displays the main menu and the escape key
exits from the main menu. The user can re-define the quick key
combinations using the swinst.exe program. This is sometimes
necessary for non-standard keyboards.
SageWords History
SageWords was created on a Tandy 1000 with 640 of RAM, a 64
megabyte internal hard disk, two 360K floppy disks, 8087 math
coprocessor, and Zoom 2400B half-card internal modem. SageWords
was born April 28th, 1988. In the first week SageWords had spread
to over a dozen Bulletin Board Systems and was receiving national
distribution in the United States through the PC special interest
group PC-SIG.
SageWords product support
SageWords is supported by the Author at:
Sage Software Systems
4668 Gulfstream Road
Lake Worth, Florida 33461
- or -
The Cosmic Annex (East) BBS
(407) 439-7302
voice: (407) 641-5108
300/1200/2400 Baud 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no
parity. 24 hours daily!