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- Description of Word Hound
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- Word Hound is a combined dictionary and thesaurus for Acorn's Risc-OS range
- of computers. It allows fast and convenient access to full definitions, and
- alternatives for over 30,000 words.
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- Word Hound will also comunicate with many other applications allowing the
- passing of words in both directions (eg. passing a word from a word
- processor to Word Hound, and then passing an alternative word back to the
- word processor for replacement.
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- With Computer Concepts' Impression application there is a direct hotlink
- allowing even better comunication between the applications.
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- It allows 3 different searches :
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- 1) The Word Hound (normal) Search - A search unique to Word Hound and it's
- little brother 'Mini Hound'. This search takes a word and looks for words of
- the same stem, etc. Thus it ignores 'ing', 'ed' endings, etc. and also
- compensates for differences between British and American spellings.
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- 2) The 'Wild Card' search can use both * and # wildcards to search for words
- contained in the index files.
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- 3) The 'Sounds Like' search searches for words that are similar in sound to
- what it typed in. Useful for when you can't remember the spelling.
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- Word Hound also allows the user to create new data files, or edit the
- existing ones, by the use of some special tools that decompress data and
- index files, create index files for thesaurus data files, and compress data
- and index files.
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- At just over 3.5 Meg Word Hound is a hard disc application (the vast
- majority of this is data), but it only requires about 200k memory to run so
- works on computers with only 1 Meg available.
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- Word Hound is a SHAREWARE application. This means that it is freely
- available from various sources (eg. PD libraries, BBSs, mail servers and ftp
- sites), but continued use (more than 2 weeks) requires registration.
- Registration for Word Hound costs just 5 pounds sterling for a single user
- (10 pounds for a site licence). If you would like a copy of Word Hound and
- you can not find it elsewhere, you can obtain a copy upon registration
- (U.K. only) by sending 5 blank 3.5in discs (formatted to 800k) with 6 pounds
- (includes 1 pound to cover return postage and packing and time, etc.)
- (11 pounds for site licence) to :
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- Mr. I.J.Palmer,
- 40 Birch Crescent,
- Aylesford,
- Kent. ME20 7QE.
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- Registration for Word Hound covers Mini Hound, and vice versa.
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- Cheques payable to 'Mr. I.J.Palmer' acceptable (must be drawn on U.K. bank),
- no resposibility can be taken for cash sent through the post. Please make
- sure all discs sent are formatted to 800k and are blank (also preferably
- with labels attached), failure to ensure this will only delay their return.
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- Correspondence can also be sent to the above address, or via e-mail
- to ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk.
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- Word Hound is currently (Jan 1993) at version 1.17. Registered users with
- earlier versions can update either by e-mail (free) or by sending a blank
- (formatted) disc to the above address (plus about £1 for return p&p, etc.).
- Users of version 1.00 who wish to register and/or upgrade to version 1.17
- will need to send 2 discs due to major differences between v1.00 and all
- other versions (this upgrade can not be done via e-mail due to size).
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