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- ANAGRAM.EXE is a PM program that generates anagrams from random names
- or phrases that you enter. It generates the anagrams in a second
- thread. It uses the small dictionary ANAGRAM.DCT, which must be in
- the current directory when the program is started.
-
- This was one of my first PM programs, written about a year and a half
- ago. The anagram-generating algorithm is from a November, 1987
- article in BYTE written by Mike Morton.
-
- I came across the program again recently, and decided to post it for
- people to play with. It probably has a race condition or two between
- the main and background threads that may cause it to hang on rare
- occasion. Also, it has trouble with long phrases (say, 35 or so
- characters). Lastly, every once in awhile an anagram will be
- generated that has too few characters. These are usually obvious,
- and incidentally often quite funny.
-
- Besides these bugs, I think it's a good little time-waster and well
- worth downloading.
-
- By the way, I'm not identifying myself because I would rather not get
- any email about the program, and I don't plan to touch the source
- code again. Also, I have a (small) reputation to protect <grin>.
-
- Joe P.M. Programmer
- September 16, 1990
-