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SpellGuard VERSION:BETA 0.80
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Introduction
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SpellGuard is a program that interactively checks your
spelling i.e. as you type. After a mistake is found, if
requested, it will attempt to give you matches from the
dictionary. SpellGuard checks the spelling of all words
that are greater than three characters.
Disclaimer
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The Program is supplied "AS IS" without any warranty of any kind,
either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the
implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular
purpose.
In no event shall Robert Mahoney be liable for any damages, either
direct or consequential, caused by the use, or inability to use,
this program, even if Robert Mahoney has been advised of the
possibility of such damages.
Installation
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Run the install.cmd. This will prompt you for a directory, copy
the files into the directory and create a program icon for
SpellGuard.
If you want to run SpellGuard from the command line, make sure
SPELLGRD.EXE is on the PATH,SPELLGRD.DCT is on the DPATH and
SPELLHK.DLL, SPELLRT.DLL and WORDS.DLL are on your LIBPATH.
Operation
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SpellGuard is quite simple, it starts checking your spelling
as soon as you start it up. When you make an error in spelling,
or you spell a word that is not in the dictionary, the Spellguard
window will float to the top of the screen, but it will not
interfere will your typing. At the next keystroke, Spellguard
will float back out of sight. Pressing CTRL+PAGEUP will bring
Spellguard back to the top of all windows and give it the focus.
Pressing CTRL+PAGEDOWN will bring focus back to the window that
you last typed into.
Selecting the system menu choice,
OPTIONS, will give you a dialog box that will configure SpellGuard
The system menu choice, ABOUT, displays the product
information dialog box.
The ADD pushbutton adds a word to the dictionary and the MATCH
pushbutton tries to match a misspelled word to a word in the
dictionary.
COMMANDS
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ADD - This will add the word in the combo box to the
dictionary. SpellGuard stores the words you add
in the file WORDS.USR.
MATCH - This will start a search of the best match in the
dictionary to the word in the combo box and bring up
the MATCH dialog.
Pressing ESC will exit SpellGuard
DIALOGS
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OPTIONS
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The first two options configures the behavior of SpellGuard
when a word is misspelled. You can have it beep
and you can have the SpellGuard window float to the top
of the screen so you can see what was misspelled. It is
non-intrusive, if you continue to type, the SpellGuard
window will float back to the bottom.
The backspace settings tell SpellGuard whether you want
your backspace key to be a destructive backspace. Sorry,
this is system wide so SpellGuard may make some wrong
calls if one application has a destructive backspace and
another has a non-destructive backspace.
MATCH
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This will show you the best match in the database.
The original word is placed in the entry field and
the matches are in the listbox. Pressing MATCH will
start a search again, COPY will copy the selected
word to the clipboard and CANCEL will return you to
the SpellGuard main dialog/
Moving the slider to the right will cause the search
to become more exact, to the left, less exact.
It is currently set to 75 (out of 100)
For example, searching on SIMILER will get you 17 matches
at 75. A search exactness of 85 will get you 5 matches.
ABOUT
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Shows product info.
Other included programs
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PMDICT
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Description
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PMDICT is the dictionary browser and maintenance program.
It allows you to view,add and delete words from the dictionary
Operation
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Enter a word stem and press SEARCH. It will then search
the dictionary for all words that start with that stem. For
example putting ab in the field will find all words that begin
with ab.
Pressing ADD will add the word in the field to the dictionary.
Pressing DELETE will delete the selected word in the listbox
from the dictionary.
ADD2DICT
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Description
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ADD2DICT allows you to add batches of words to the dictionary.
Since SpellGuard creates a file of the words you add to the
dictionary, if your now customized dictionary ever gets
deleted or corrupted, you can recreate you customized dictionary
by unzipping the original and running ADD2DICT WORDS.USR
Operation
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From the command line, run ADD2DICT <filename>.
Since this program creates the SpellGuard dictionary if it does
not exist, you can use this program with any word list to create
a completely customized dictionary.
NOTE: SpellGuard is optimized to work with ENGLISH. You can
try to use it with a list of words in another language but I've
never done so, You are on your own.
Support
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SpellGuard will be supported via:
Email:
Internet: rmahoney@bix.com
CIS: 73142,2765
Newsgroups:
CIS:
OS2SHARE section 1, OS/2 shareware forum
Internet:
comp.os.os2.apps - put SpellGuard in the title
Registration
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Until the gold release, v1.0, there is no registration.
You just have to email me and let me know what you think of it.
Upon gold release, registration will be via CIS SWREG,
or direct mail.
SpellGuard will cost US$25.00.