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GO: The Menu-Driven User Interface for the WORDY Utilities
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The WORDY utilities run from the DOS command line. This can cause a problem
for people unaccustomed to invoking programs from the command line, and some
may consider it an annoyance to have to repeatedly run the utilities in this
fashion. Along comes GO.EXE to the rescue.
Type simply GO to pop a menu listing almost all the WORDY utilities. Select
from the menu which word list(s)* to use, then choose the utilities to run,
and repeat as necessary. Output may be directed to a file or to the screen.
The RF file reformatter automatically "pretties up" the files (if you wish
to use the "letter-select" option of RF, you must still invoke it from the
command line).
Note that although the WORDY game is given as a selection in the menu, it
does *not* at this time run reliably when "launched" from the GO menu. It is
highly recommended that the WORDY game still be run from the command line.
This may be "fixed" in a later update.
The GO menu program was written especially for WORDY by Steve Oliger, a heck
of a nice fellow and a crackerjack programmer. Steve has kindly granted me
permission to distribute GO with WORDY, and I acknowledge my debt to him for
a significant improvement to the WORDY package. Steve is well known in the
Scrabble (tm) community as a programmer, innovator, and analyst. He may be
contacted at his e-mail address, oliger@epix.net.
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*The standard word list used in the WORDY utilities is WORD.LST, an OSPD3-
compatible list included as part of the WORDY package. The LONGWORD.LST, an
extra file of 171,000+ words over 8 letters long may also be used with the
utilities. This list is given as a registration bonus (see WORDLST.DOC).
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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/
Steve Oliger
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E-mail: oliger@epix.net
Scrabble is a trademark of the Milton Bradley Co., Inc.
WORDY is not a trademark.
GO is not a trademark.