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- MICROLYTICS OFFERS SPELL CHECKER FOR USE WITH APPLELINK
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- Contact:
- Microlytics, Inc.
- Marianne DeBruyn
- Two Tobey Village Office Park
- Pittsford, New York 14534
- 716-248-9150
- MDEBRUYN
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- MACWORLD: Booth #911
- Bayside Exposition Center
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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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- MICROLYTICS ANNOUNCES SPELL CHECKER FOR USE WITH APPLELINK
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- On-line Spelling Checker Developed Exclusively for AppleLink
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- BOSTON, MA, August 6, 1991 -- Microlytics Inc. introduced today Spell Finder™
- for use with AppleLink®, the first on-line spelling checker and verifier
- developed exclusively for AppleLink. The program provides spelling for 100,000
- words and is available in 12 different languages. Spell Finder for use with
- AppleLink will be available this September for site licensing and retail
- distribution.
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- AppleLink is the popular on-line information service maintained by Apple
- Computer which provides information about Apple and third party programs and
- products. Spell Finder offers several options for checking a document for
- correct spelling. Users can either correct their spelling as they type, or
- check their entire message or any portion of it, after it has been typed.
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- According to Mark Homuth, vice president of sales at Microlytics, "Every time
- you correspond by AppleLink or on paper, you make an impression. By using Spell
- Finder, anyone can make sure their messages are spelled correctly, which makes
- a professional impression."
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- Spell Finder for use with AppleLink utilizes Microlytics' OEM Spell Finder
- correction technology which contains the most comprehensive list of words found
- in a spell checking program. In addition to thousands of modern terms and
- proper nouns frequently used in daily correspondence, such as names, places and
- companies, Spell Finder also includes many inflected forms of words not found
- in printed dictionaries such as overachievement, leveraged, and
- unsubstantiated. Standard Microlytics' Spell Finder features such as replace,
- learn and suggest are also included in the AppleLink version. As an added
- feature, Spell Finder for use with AppleLink is also compatible with MacWrite
- II user dictionaries.
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- Spell Finder for use with AppleLink will be sold to AppleLink end-users
- worldwide for a suggested retail price of $24.95. To place an order, please
- contact Microlytics at 1-800-828-6293, or 716-248-9150 in New York state.
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- Based in Pittsford, New York , Microlytics is a leading publisher of linguistic
- and reference software including the INFODESK™ series of reference products, a
- line of compatible software-based reference products including The Random House
- Encyclopedia™, Strunk & White's The Elements of Style™ and Inside
- Information™. Other products include the popular Word Finder® and the new Word
- Finder Plus electronic thesauruses, and GOfer™ 2.0, a text search and retrieval
- utility.
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- Microlytics also provides linguistic technologies to software and hardware
- vendors for integration into their products. The company's OEM product line
- includes Spell Finder, a spelling verifier and corrector available in 17
- languages; RightWriter®, the highly regarded grammar and style checker
- available for OEM licensing exclusively from Microlytics; MultiTrans™, a
- multiple language software program that translates words and phrases between
- languages; the INFODESK engine; Strunk & White's The Elements of Style; and
- Word Finder, the highly acclaimed and most widely used electronic thesaurus,
- now available in 10 languages.
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- Microlytics has an ongoing relationship with the Xerox Palo Alto Research
- Center (PARC), and has developed several proprietary technologies, including
- text compression and retrieval capabilities, which are used in the company's
- software. Microlytics is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SelecTronics Inc.
- (NASDAQ: SELE), and is 38%-owned by Xerox.
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- For further information, please contact:
- Mark Homuth Maria Pignataro
- Microlytics Inc. Peter J. Lunetta & Associates
- 2 Tobey Village Office Park 795 Parkway Avenue, Suite A-1
- Pittsford, New York 14534 Trenton, New Jersey 08618
- Phone: 716-248-9150 Phone: 609-883-1859
- Fax: 716-248-3868 Fax: 609-883-6257
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- For information regarding SelecTronics, please contact:
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- Connie Connors
- Connors Communications
- 81 Franklin Street
- New York, NY 10013
- Phone: 212-431-9300
- Fax: 212-431-1146
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- This information is provided by the product's developer or distributor and
- constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation by Apple Computer,
- Inc.. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to selection, performance or
- use of this product. All understandings, agreements and warranties, if any,
- take place directly between the developer and the prospective user.
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