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- WinSpell
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- Version 2.00
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- The Ultimate Windows Spelling Supervisor
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- Checks Your Spelling in ANY Window
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- WinSpell is Copyright (c) 1991-1992 by Tom Hite
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- All Rights Reserved
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- WinSpell is sold exclusively by
- R&TH Inc. and R&TH Inc. approved Vendors
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- For information, call R&TH Inc. at
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- (214) 783-8641 or (319) 362-6242
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- WinSpell requires Windows 3.1 to execute
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- WinSpell is a Windows based spelling supervisor which can check
- your spelling three different ways:
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- 1) WinSpell acts in real-time, as you type. While typing,
- WinSpell will notify you as soon as you misspell a word.
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- 2) WinSpell spell checks files such as Windows Write files and
- ASCII text files.
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- 3) WinSpell checks the spelling of information copied to the
- Clipboard.
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- 4) Looks up specific words with wildcard allowed
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- These four modes of WinSpell allow you to check your spelling in
- virtually any Windows application, including DOS based applications
- running in a window (via the clipboard), spreadsheets,
- telecommunication packages, e-mail sessions, etc.
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- If you would prefer to receive an Evaluation (ungregistered) copy
- directly from R&TH Inc., feel free to call us. The distribution
- fee for the diskette is $5.00. Evaluation disks will not be shipped
- without payment.
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- INSTALLATION NOTES:
- Delete the previous versions of WinSpell completely. They are
- no longer useful as Version 2.00 is not backward compatible with
- the dictionary files. If you have personal dictionary files
- you still want to use, execute the DCT2ASC utility to convert
- the dictionaries to a text file. See your previous documentation
- (WINSPELL.WRI) for details. WinSpell version 2.00 can read text
- files and merge them into the new dictionaries.
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- VERY IMPORTANT OPTION: Use Memory
- WinSpell has the ability to run significantly faster by setting
- the Use Memory option in the Settings/All... Dialog box. This
- option defaults to off upon first running WinSpell. See the
- Documentation in WINSPELL.WRI for more details.
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- LICENSING:
- WinSpell is ShareWare and as such, you have certain obligations to
- register WinSpell if you use it past the initial evaluation period.
- See the documentation in WINSPELL.WRI for details on license
- information.
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- NEW INSTALLATION:
- In order to install any version of WinSpell, you must use the
- WinSpell installation program. The files are compressed and
- cannot simply be copied:
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- WinSpell Evaluation copies will generally be stored in ZIP,
- LZH and/or ZOO formats. The following examples assume ZIP.
- Substitute the 'pkunzip' command with:
- 1) lha -x for LZH format
- 2) zoo x for ZOO format
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- 1) Expand the (compressed) archive file:
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- pkunzip winspell
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- 2) Run the Installation program from floppy. The Installation
- program is a Windows program and as such, must be run under
- Windows. To run the installation program, use the File/Run
- menu item of the Windows Program Manager and execute:
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- d:<path>install
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- where d:<path> represents the full path from which WinSpell
- should be installed. For instance, "a:\install" would
- execute the install program from floppy diskette A: .
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- The following is a short explanation for each file:
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- WINSPELL.EXE - WinSpell's main executable. This is the file that
- you will want to add to your program manager in
- Windows, or have Windows load via the "load=" option
- in WIN.INI.
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- WINSPELL.EXE is required for proper operation.
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- WINSPDLL.DLL - WinSpell's dynamic link library.
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- WINSPDLL.DLL is required for proper operation.
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- WINSPELL.HLP - WinSpell's Help file for use in Windows Help.
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- WINSPELL.HLP is not required for proper operation.
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- WINSPELL.WRI - Disk based documentation for WinSpell.
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- WINSPELL.WRI is not required for proper operation.
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- FULL.DCT - WinSpell's Disk Based Dictionary.
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- FULL.DCT is generally required for proper operation.
- (See the WINSPELL.WRI file for detailed information
- on this file).
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- COMMON.DCT - WinSpell's Memory Based Dictionary.
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- COMMON.DCT is generally required for proper operation.
- (See the WINSPELL.WRI file for detailed information
- on this file).
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- INSTALL.EXE - WinSpell's Installation facility
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- INSTALL.EXE is not required for proper operation
- and is not installed with the rest of the program.
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- History:
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- Version 1.00
- Initial ShareWare release...
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- Version 1.05
- Initial Registered version release. Includes following fixes from
- Initial ShareWare release:
- 1) Fixed read errors while file/clipboard checking and typing
- simultaneously.
- 2) Installation to WIN.INI fixed if run from DOS PATH instead
- of explicitly via fully qualified path.
- 3) Fixed File Check Dialog Box not closing via System Menu.
- 4) Fixed file 64K size limit for file checks.
- 5) Fixed lookups of words that start with characters "zo"
- and above.
- 6) Fixed problem with exiting Windows and WinSpell not
- asking to save changed dictionaries.
- 7) Renamed HOOK.DLL to WINSPDLL.DLL in preparation for
- Windows 3.1 which also has a HOOK.DLL.
- 8) Fixed broken add operation in Guess Dialog Box.
- 9) Fixed problem with File Check word Additions not updating
- dictionaries used for checking keyboard typed words.
- 10) Fixed maximum length of many edit fields in dialog boxes.
- 11) Corrected documentation and help files.
- 12) Unbottlenecked Guess lookups.
- 13) Enhanced many of the dialog boxes.
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- Version 1.08
- Bug Fix Release
- 1) Fixed read error of common dictionary that could possibly
- corrupt the data area of the Windows Shell (usually
- Program Manager). This usually manifested itself as
- a message from the shell which complained about being
- in an "Extremely Low Memory" condition and not allowing
- exit of Windows.
- 2) Fixed read of Windows Write files which skipped the first
- 16 bytes of the Text information. Usually showed up
- as an incorrect spelling of a partial word on the first
- line of a document.
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- Known bugs remaining:
- 1) Bitmap and Metafile pictures in files and the clipboard
- sometimes confuse WinSpell. WinSpell just stops checking
- the text before completion and comes back as if it
- finished. Workaround: Copy the entire document to the
- clipboard. WinSpell will grab only the text from the
- clipboard and check that.
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- Version 1.09
- Very minor fixes to version control numbers and whatnot.
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- Version 1.70
- Major changes to the WinSpell keyboard filter.
- 1) Moved most of the DLL code into the Application. This is
- due to some other, rather famous no less, applications which
- weren't properly hooking into the Windows keyboard filters.
- WinSpell, although doing things the 'safe' way, was knocking
- other applications out due to their improper initialization
- of the Windows Keyboard Filter. WinSpell now recognizes
- dangerous applications methodologies of Keyboard Hooking and
- loads safely without bothering the offending applications in
- the hook chain.
- 2) New mechanisms for looking at the characters typed. Number
- parsing and special character parsing is much better now.
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- Version 2.00
- 1) Completely new dictionary engine. Highly compressed format.
- 2) Fixes to handle pictures in Windows Write files correctly.
- 3) Much more sophisticated keyboard monitoring system.
- Smarter recognition of what is and isn't a word.
- 4) Window specific operation.
- 5) Phonetic (soundex) lookups.
- 6) International language/alphabet support.
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- Note that there is a very minor price increase. This
- reflects R&TH Inc.'s commitment to quality at a low price.
- Version 2.00 was slated for the release of new file formats,
- and in place file correction. This version does not include
- those filters. This is a major contributor to the decreased
- size of the expected price increase. If and when R&TH
- releases such support, the cost of WinSpell user support will
- require a large price increase.
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