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- January, 1995
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- It would be convenient to have the computer find in the master word list all
- words containing any given set of letters. The letters might be in any random
- order in the words selected, but they would all be present in that word. This
- would be useful for creating lists of words with unusual letter combinations
- for study to increase one's skill at Scrabble (tm) and similar word games.
- Likewise, certain letters can be excluded from the words to be found. This
- makes it possible to, for example, find all "valid" words containing q and t,
- but not r and e.
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- To use XTRACT, just type: XTRACT xxxxxx yyyy.yyy, where xxxxxx stands for
- letter set that you wish the word list to be searched for, and yyyy.yyy is
- the name of the file you want to have searched. All "valid" words containing
- all letters in that set, in any particular order, will be extracted and saved
- n a file with an .xtr suffix.
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- Typing XTRACT xxxxx assumes that the file to be searched is WORD.LST. Typ-
- ing xtract abcd searches the file word.lst for the letter set abcd.
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- To exclude a certain letter or letters, precede the excluded letters with an
- ~ or with an !, those being the standard symbols for logical NOT.
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- As an example, to find all "valid" words containing the letters -zf- in the
- file word.txt, simply type: xtract zf word.txt. After a few seconds wait,
- the file zf.xtr will contain all words containing that unusual combination
- contained in the file word.txt.
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- As a second example, find all "valid" words containing the letters -qt-, but
- excluding -er- in the file xyz.lst. Just type: xtract qt~er xyz.lst or
- xtract qt!er xyz.lst. Either method works fine.
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- Note that it is possible to specify only letters to exclude, for example, by
- typing ~aeiou or !aeiou, obtain a list of all words not containing any of the
- letters a, e, i, or u, but any other letters.
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- The entire WORDY package still costs only $2.00 (cheap!) to register - a real
- value in these days of inflated shareware registration fees, not to mention
- overpriced commercial software produced by committees of overpaid profession-
- al programmers.
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- M\Cooper
- 3425 Chestnut Ridge Rd.
- Grantsville, MD 21536-9801
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