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- UNRF (UnReFormat) Utility
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- Using the RF utility to reformat custom word lists into easily readable and
- printable 4-across or more listings has one drawback. The RF'd list cannot at
- that point be operated on by the other WORDY utilities, and furthermore, it
- is would require tedious hand-editing to restore the list to its original 1-
- across format. The UNRF (unreformat) utility is specifically designed to
- reverse the effects of RF on a file.
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- To use UNRF, it will still be necessary to "edit" the RF'd file to delete the
- "header" and "footer" lines, that is, the lines at the top and bottom of the
- file that title and describe the word list, but are not actually the listed
- words. The following example shows which lines to delete from a typical file
- generated by the ANAGRAM utility from the letters WORKING:
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- {DELETE
- {DELETE==========================================================================
- {DELETE
- {DELETE Words anagrammed from: WORKING
- {DELETE
- {DELETE==========================================================================
- gin gink girn giro giron go gor
- gowk gown grin groin grow grown ikon
- in ink inro ion irk iron kin
- king kino kir kirn know koi kor
- no nog noir nor nori now oink
- on or ow owing own rig rin
- ring rink row rowing wig win wing
- wink wino wo wog wok won wonk
- work working worn wring wrong
- {DELETE-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- {DELETE
- {DELETE 61 words can be anagrammed from WORKING.
- {DELETE
- {DELETE ANAGRAM utility by M\Cooper, PO Box 237, St. David, AZ 85630-0237
- {DELETE
- {DELETE From the original list, 61 word(s) have been selected.
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- The contents of the edited file will now appear as follows:
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- gin gink girn giro giron go gor
- gowk gown grin groin grow grown ikon
- in ink inro ion irk iron kin
- king kino kir kirn know koi kor
- no nog noir nor nori now oink
- on or ow owing own rig rin
- ring rink row rowing wig win wing
- wink wino wo wog wok won wonk
- work working worn wring wrong
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- You may now UNRF the edited file, UNRF FILENAME, where filename is the name
- of the edited file. The UNRF'd file will appear as follows:
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- gin
- gink
- girn
- giro
- ...
- ... (all the other words in between)
- ...
- wrong
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- The file has been restored to its original 1-across format, minus its header
- and footer lines. The rest of the WORDY utilities will now work on it again.
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- UNRF may also be used, with some care, to convert certain word lists from
- other applications to 1-across format. The words in the lists must use "white
- space", that is, spaces or tabs as separators, and contains only alphabetical
- characters.
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- M\Cooper
- PO Box 237
- St. David, AZ 85630-0237
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- E-mail: thegrendel@theriver.com
- Web: http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/
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