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- Acronym Engine by Benjamin Kuo Silver Yucca Software
- documentation 3419 East 7590 South
- version 1.00 07/17/92 Salt Lake City, Utah 84121
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- INTRODUCTION:
- This is a simple dictionary-lookup program, which allows you to look up
- acronyms, and if they aren't found, add them. Reasonably fast search
- engine (binary tree...), but since everything is held offline in a file
- adding (hence sorting) is SLOW. Should be improved, once I determine
- how to do a quicksort on a file without loading the entire thing into
- memory.
-
- INSTALLATION:
- The steps to installation are simple. Follow the steps outlined below:
- • Using the New Folder menu choice in the Finder, or an equivalent,
- create a folder for the Acronym support files.
- • Copy the Acronym application to the same folder as your
- bulletin board.
- • In your host bbs application, set up a menu choice where you want
- to run an external application, in this case Acronym. In Red
- Ryder Host this is done with MenuEdit (for more in-detail help,
- please refer to your Host manual). In Mansion, this is done
- through the built-in menu editor. In the WWIV system, pressing
- the proper key while waiting for a call will bring you to the
- external application setup.
- • Run your bulletin board, and launch Acronym. This will allow
- you to enter the correct pathnames via a dialog box, as well as
- giving you the option of a log file or no log file (marking when
- people have entered or exited Acronym). Setup and running the
- application work ONLY if you launch from your bulletin board
- application, otherwise Acronym does not find the "Launch BBS"
- or corresponding file (depending on which bbs program you are
- using) that it requires to work correctly. If you need to re-
- configure the Acronym after moving your bbs application or
- the folders, you simply need to drag the "Acronym Options" file
- in your system folder to the trash.
- • Quit from Acronym, and your bulletin board will now be able to
- run the external door. OTHER INFO:
- If you are running under multifinder, select the "No Local Echo" in the
- sysop menus, and the window will not appear.
-
- BUG FIX AND ADDITION HISTORY:
- 1.00 07/19/92 Initial release.
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- SHAREWARE FEES:
- As a reminder, THIS IS SHAREWARE. So, if you use this program, please
- remember: it costs money to buy compilers! :-) If just 10 of your users
- get a kick out of using Acronym, they can all pitch in $1 and you'll
- be registered!
-
- The author reserves all rights to the program. This program may be
- distributed via all national electronic networks. Local
- bulletin boards may distribute this program with the documentation, in
- StuffIt or Compactor format, freely, providing that they do not gain any
- renumeration besides the operating costs. This program may not be distributed
- with any commercial software without the author's written permission. User
- groups are free to distribute the program in monthly disks and to include the
- program on any CD-ROM (such as BMUG's PD-ROM) or public domain library,
- as long as there is no charge beyond costs of media. Public domain
- distribution companies, including EDUCOMP, PD•EXCHANGE, and so-called
- "National User Groups" MAY NOT DISTRIBUTE or SELL this program in any way,
- without the express written permission of the author.
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