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- Karma Manager v 1.0
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- (aka Anagram Maker)
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- Once upon a time there was a program called ARS MAGNA by
- Michael Morton which created anagrams. Alas, it didn't run on my
- system, so undaunted, I decided to write my own. It has a
- reasonable (if sparse) Mac interface, and it runs in the background
- under System 7.
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- Karma Manager is a program which takes a word or phrase and
- rearranges the letters into other words or phrases. For example,
- if you take the phrase "Anagram Maker" you can rearrange the
- letters to get "Karma Manager."
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- Some anagrams can be fun (or funny.) So you think Madonna is an
- actress? You can rearrange "Madonna Ciccone" to form "can do
- cinema con" and see the real Karma of this situation (OK, so maybe
- I'm misusing the word "Karma." Sue me.) Take "Michael Jordan."
- We all know he gets "hi on cradle jam." If you try "Saddam
- Hussein," we find out, with little surprise, that his "human side's
- sad."
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- Karma Manager comes with a dictionary of words (KM Words)
- which it will use to create anagrams. This is the default file that
- is used if no other dictionary file is specified. Karma Manager
- also comes with a dictionary of proper names (KM Names) which
- you cas use optionally if you want to rearrange your phrase into
- names. You can also supply your own dictionary or
- dictionaries. Any text file with one word per line will work.
- Karma Manager will also read the ARS MAGNA dictionaries so you
- can still use those if you have them (and paid for them. :-)
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- The output is dumped by default to a resizable window and output
- can optionally be captured in a text file. Each list of words in the
- output appears only once, so you may need to rearrange the words
- to get interesting phrases. That is, you won't get "big dude" and
- "dude big." You only get one of them (actually you'll get "dude big")
- so you have to get used to mentally rearranging the words as you're
- scanning the output to find interesting anagrams.
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- Installing Karma Manager
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- Just copy the Karma Manager and the default dictionary, KM Words,
- to your working disk. Be sure KM Words is in the same directory
- as Karma Manager if you don't want to be asked for a dictionary.
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- Running Karma Manager
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- Karma Manager has two menus, File and Control. Each menu item
- is briefly described below.
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- File menu items:
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- New
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- New creates a window and pops up a dialog asking for the phrase
- to be anagrammed. Type it in and click OK. If Karma Manager can't
- find the default dictionary or you haven't supplied dictionary
- names (see below) it will pop up an alert letting you know this and
- then pop up a file selection dialog. Select a dictionary file and
- click OK. Karma Manager will put up an output window and then
- read the dictionary file(s). When finished, it will start scrolling
- the anagrams by. Karma Manager displays a little status bar at
- the bottom of the output window telling you what it's doing, and
- how many dictionary words and anagrams it has found so far.
- Because of the CPU load, it only makes sense to do one of these at
- a time. Therefore you can't start another until this window is
- closed.
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- Dictionaries
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- Selecting Dictionaries brings up a dialog box which allows you to
- build a list of dictionaries to use. Click the add button to get a
- file selection dialog to add a dictionary file to the list. If you
- have a dictionary name in the list that you want to remove from
- the list, click on it to select it and then click Remove. When
- you're satisfied, click OK. This list of dictionaries will be read
- instead of the default dictionary whenever you open a new
- anagram window.
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- Capture to File
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- This brings up a dialog box asking for a file name to dump text to.
- All output will be dumped to this file until you select Cancel
- Capture.
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- Control Menu Items
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- Pause
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- Selecting Pause or typing cmd-P will temporarily stop the
- anagrams from scrolling by. Subsequently selecting Resume or
- typing cmd-R will start 'em up again.
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- Stop
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- Selecting Stop or typing cmd-. will stop computing anagrams but
- leave the window up. Clicking the close box on the anagram
- window will do the same thing (and, obviously, close the window,
- too.)
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- Disclaimers
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- Karma Manager is released as is, and I can take no responsibility
- for any evil it might do. I honestly don't think it will do any
- evil...but stuff happens. Please let me know if you have any
- problems.
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- Lastly...
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- If you like Karma Manager, become a registered user by sending
- your name and address and a check for $7 to
-
- Chuck Grissom
- 516 Smokeridgr Lane
- Raleigh, NC 27615
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- You can send comments and bug reports to me via Internet or
- Compuserve:
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- Internet: 72227.2715@compuserve.com
- Compuserve: 72227,2715
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