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Karma Manager v 1.0
(aka Anagram Maker)
Once upon a time there was a program called ARS MAGNA by
Michael Morton which created anagrams. Alas, it didn't run on my
system, so undaunted, I decided to write my own. It has a
reasonable (if sparse) Mac interface, and it runs in the background
under System 7.
Karma Manager is a program which takes a word or phrase and
rearranges the letters into other words or phrases. For example,
if you take the phrase "Anagram Maker" you can rearrange the
letters to get "Karma Manager."
Some anagrams can be fun (or funny.) So you think Madonna is an
actress? You can rearrange "Madonna Ciccone" to form "can do
cinema con" and see the real Karma of this situation (OK, so maybe
I'm misusing the word "Karma." Sue me.) Take "Michael Jordan."
We all know he gets "hi on cradle jam." If you try "Saddam
Hussein," we find out, with little surprise, that his "human side's
sad."
Karma Manager comes with a dictionary of words (KM Words)
which it will use to create anagrams. This is the default file that
is used if no other dictionary file is specified. Karma Manager
also comes with a dictionary of proper names (KM Names) which
you cas use optionally if you want to rearrange your phrase into
names. You can also supply your own dictionary or
dictionaries. Any text file with one word per line will work.
Karma Manager will also read the ARS MAGNA dictionaries so you
can still use those if you have them (and paid for them. :-)
The output is dumped by default to a resizable window and output
can optionally be captured in a text file. Each list of words in the
output appears only once, so you may need to rearrange the words
to get interesting phrases. That is, you won't get "big dude" and
"dude big." You only get one of them (actually you'll get "dude big")
so you have to get used to mentally rearranging the words as you're
scanning the output to find interesting anagrams.
Installing Karma Manager
Just copy the Karma Manager and the default dictionary, KM Words,
to your working disk. Be sure KM Words is in the same directory
as Karma Manager if you don't want to be asked for a dictionary.
Running Karma Manager
Karma Manager has two menus, File and Control. Each menu item
is briefly described below.
File menu items:
New
New creates a window and pops up a dialog asking for the phrase
to be anagrammed. Type it in and click OK. If Karma Manager can't
find the default dictionary or you haven't supplied dictionary
names (see below) it will pop up an alert letting you know this and
then pop up a file selection dialog. Select a dictionary file and
click OK. Karma Manager will put up an output window and then
read the dictionary file(s). When finished, it will start scrolling
the anagrams by. Karma Manager displays a little status bar at
the bottom of the output window telling you what it's doing, and
how many dictionary words and anagrams it has found so far.
Because of the CPU load, it only makes sense to do one of these at
a time. Therefore you can't start another until this window is
closed.
Dictionaries
Selecting Dictionaries brings up a dialog box which allows you to
build a list of dictionaries to use. Click the add button to get a
file selection dialog to add a dictionary file to the list. If you
have a dictionary name in the list that you want to remove from
the list, click on it to select it and then click Remove. When
you're satisfied, click OK. This list of dictionaries will be read
instead of the default dictionary whenever you open a new
anagram window.
Capture to File
This brings up a dialog box asking for a file name to dump text to.
All output will be dumped to this file until you select Cancel
Capture.
Control Menu Items
Pause
Selecting Pause or typing cmd-P will temporarily stop the
anagrams from scrolling by. Subsequently selecting Resume or
typing cmd-R will start 'em up again.
Stop
Selecting Stop or typing cmd-. will stop computing anagrams but
leave the window up. Clicking the close box on the anagram
window will do the same thing (and, obviously, close the window,
too.)
Disclaimers
Karma Manager is released as is, and I can take no responsibility
for any evil it might do. I honestly don't think it will do any
evil...but stuff happens. Please let me know if you have any
problems.
Lastly...
If you like Karma Manager, become a registered user by sending
your name and address and a check for $7 to
Chuck Grissom
516 Smokeridgr Lane
Raleigh, NC 27615
You can send comments and bug reports to me via Internet or
Compuserve:
Internet: 72227.2715@compuserve.com
Compuserve: 72227,2715