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AnyWord
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Welcome to the world of indexed text retrieval.
Complete instructions on using AnyWord can be found
in the F-HELP file. You can print this out or just
refer to it online from time to time. (It's
available under the HELP menu selection when
running the Finder program.) In any case, we
suggest you at least skim through the entire
manual and particularly sections:
General Introduction
How to Use the Manual
Installation
Getting Started with Finder
Getting Started with Indexer
System Flow
Figure on spending 1-2 hours with AnyWord before
being able to do anything useful with it. But once
you've mastered the basics of indexing and
searching, you'll find AnyWord gives you a new
level of control over your text files.
The remaining information in this file consists
of:
- user registration information
- the licensing agreement
- information about recent updates to
the AnyWord package.
Registration
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The software on this diskette has been provided
on an honor system "try-before-you-buy" basis.
(If you paid less than $9 for this diskette,
your payment was simply for a duplication/handling
charge and for the diskette itself, not for its
contents.)
As much as we'd like to provide this software
for free, its development took approximately 800
hours. (That's 800 hours I could have spent making
some money to meet my mortgage payments.) If you
like AnyWord and would like to continue using it,
then please pay for it. Of course, this is all on
the honor system and we won't be checking up on
anyone. However, if you do send us a check for
$35, you will be supporting our past and future
efforts in developing affordable information
retrieval software.
By sending in your $35, you will automatically
become a member of our AnyWord users group.
Members of the users group get:
- a free DOSCARD
- technical support for problems
- assistance and advice with particular applications
- programming support at a discount
- free bug fixes
- inexpensive update disks with new features
- other benefits from time to time.
We also give bonuses to members when
they bring in other members.
To join, just send us a check or money
order, with your name and address, and the AnyWord
serial number (which you can get by doing
SHOWID at the DOS prompt -- this is how we credit
whomever you got your disk from). If you think you
will be distributing copies to others, give us your
social security number (or other identifier) as well,
so we can give you credit. (And run MAKEID to record
your number on the disk.)
Software developers: the complete C source code is
available for licensing. You can use all or part
of the code for your own applications, or just look
at it to get your own ideas. Contact me for
further information.
Eric Balkan
Developer/Publisher
Packet Press
14704 Seneca Castle Ct.
Gaithersburg, MD 20878
301/762-7145
License
Carefully read the following terms and
conditions. If you do not agree with them, you
should not use this package. Use of this software
package indicates your acceptance of the terms and
conditions.
Eric Balkan, dba "Packet Press", hereinafter
"Publisher", provides this software and licenses its
use. Your use of the software acknowledges that you
have read this agreement, understand it, and agree to
be bound by its terms and conditions.
You may use this software for any purpose, subject
to the following restrictions:
1 - You may copy the contents of this diskette for
yourself or for others, but the entire diskette
must be copied without change;
2 - You may charge for copies of this diskette, but
not more than $8;
3 - You may not modify any of the files on this
diskette without the permission of the Publisher;
4 - You may not incorporate this package, or any part
of this package, in a commercial product, without
prior arrangement with Packet Press. (Typically,
we will ask for a nominal royalty fee.)
This license is effective until terminated. You
may terminate it at any time by destroying the
software together with all copies. The license also
terminates if you fail to comply with the terms and
conditions of this agreement.
The contents of this diskette are protected by
United States Copyright law and also by International
Treaty provisions.
The Publisher makes no warranties in regard to
this software. No claim is made that functions
contained in this software will meet your
requirements or that the software operation will be
uninterrupted or error free.
In no event will the publisher be liable to you
for any damages, including any lost profits, lost
savings or other incidental or consequential
damages arising out of the use or inability to use
this software, or for any claim by any other party.
This agreement shall be construed, interpreted
and governed by the laws of the state of Maryland.
You agree that this is the complete and exclusive
statement of this agreement which supersedes any
prior agreement or other communication between us on
this subject.
Update Log
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9/1/88
- Changes to CONVCRLF (optional text reformatting program):
a) No longer removes blank lines from a file
b) Drops leading spaces after an inserted hard carriage return
c) Accepts a parameter to set the linesize, e.g.
convcrlf infile outfile -l72
where 72 would be the largest line length
- Inclusion of a sample exclusion file
5/5/88 Version 1.06:
- re-addition of 2 sample profiles that had been left off Version 1.05
- minor documentation improvements
- minor internal improvements in Indexer and Finder
2/13/88
1 - You will find a program called MAKEID on your diskette. Run
this program to put your social security number on the diskette so
that you will get credit when you give a copy of AnyWord to someone
else and they decide to join our users group. (You must be a
member yourself in order to to be credited.)
2 - You will also find a "bat" file called SHOWID. This contains
the identifying social security number of whomever you got your
disk from. Give us this number when you join the AnyWord users group.
1/28/88
1 - You should find a program called SFIND on your diskette. The
contents of SFIND.DOC will tell you how to use this quick string search
program.
2 - If you want to use files created by Microsoft Word or XyWrite or
other word processing programs, you will need to create "ASCII" files
first. These are files that do not contain any special control codes for
formatting -- no underlining codes, for instance. This is generally an
option of your WP program.
Once you've created ASCII versions of your files, they may still not
work properly with AnyWord because AnyWord expects "hard" carriage
return/line feeds at the end of every line. The symptoms of this are:
- when you display text, the word at the end of the line may be split;
- when you page up/down in the displayed text, the display may appear to
be stuck in a particular spot;
- searched-for text may not be displayed on the correct page, but instead
on the previous page.
To cure this problem, run the ASCII files one at a time through the
"CONVCRLF" program. For instance, if you've created files "ABC.COR"
and "DEF.DAT", you can do:
convcrlf abc.cor abc.co#
convcrlf def.dat def.da#
then update your profile file with the new names and run Indexer.
(Optionally, you can choose to delete the old files and rename the new
files to the old names.)