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- From: hv@garbo.uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama)
- Subject: THELM507.ZIP grammar/style checker uploaded
- In-Reply-To: JAMES JEREMIAH WAYNE's message of Thu, 23 Jul 92 21:26:47 -0600 <9207240326.AA21661@bert.cs.byu.edu>
- Message-ID: <9207281002.AA14716@garbo.uwasa.fi>
- Sender: root@nic.funet.fi (The FUnny NET guru)
- Organization: Finnish Academic and Research Network Project - FUNET
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:02:41 +0300
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 21:26:47 -0600
- From: jamesj@bert.cs.byu.edu (JAMES JEREMIAH WAYNE)
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- File name: THELM507.ZIP
- One line description: A grammar/style checker for WordPerfect
- Uploader name & email: Jerry James -- jamesj@bert.cs.byu.edu
- Author or company: Timp Software
- Surface address: Box 37, Orem, Utah, U.S. 84059
- Special requirements: hard drive, color monitor helpful
- Shareware payment required from private users: Y
- Shareware payment required from corporates: Y
- Demo: N
- Nagware: N
- Self-documenting: Y
- External documentation included: Y
- Source included: N
- 10 lines description:
- Thelma Thistleblossom is a style and grammar checker for the IBM PC.
- It is a writing aid to help create strong, readable, and concise
- documents. When Thelma finds a potential problem, Thelma highlights
- the problem in context, gives a comment to define the problem, and
- gives advice on how to fix the problem.
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- Thelma examines the document for problems such as: passive voice, long
- sentences, subject-verb agreement, cliches, punctuation, and spelling
- (based on an 85,000 word dictionary). Thelma helps you write at the
- appropriate tone for your audience.
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- Long description:
- Timp Software has recently released version 5.07 of Thelma
- Thistleblossom, a style and grammar checker for the IBM PC. It is a
- writing aid to help create strong, readable, and concise documents.
- When Thelma finds a potential problem, Thelma highlights the problem in
- context, gives a comment to define the problem, and gives advice on how
- to fix the problem.
-
- Thelma examines the document for problems such as: passive voice, long
- sentences, subject-verb agreement, cliches, punctuation, and spelling
- (based on an 85,000 word dictionary). Thelma helps you write at the
- appropriate tone for your audience.
-
- Requirements: DOS 3.0, 256K RAM, and a hard disk. A color monitor is
- helpful. Thelma Thistleblossom reads only WordPerfect 5.0, 5.1, and
- generic files. Installation instructions are contained in the file
- tt.wp, a WordPerfect file.
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- This program is Shareware.
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- Jerry James
- jamesj@bert.cs.byu.edu
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- Thank you for your contribution. This is now available as:
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- garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/linguistics/thelm507.zip
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- -harri-
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