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BASIC ENGLISH
(BE.EXE)
Version 1.0
(c) 1988 By Louie Crew
BASIC ENGLISH analyzes your text and reports how many words are in BASIC
English. Optionally, it creates a new copy of your text, flagging the
words not BASIC.
Syntax
At the MS-DOS command line, enter:
BE <filename>[*]
For <filename> substitute the name of the file which you wish to analyze.
Add the asterisk if you desire the flagged copy of your file. Without the
*, the program will merely report statistics.
Note: If you choose the flagged report, it automatically appears as a new
file called R.BE. Save that file under another name to avoid having
BE.EXE overwrite it the next time that you use the program.
BASIC according to whom?
Early in the Twentieth Century many scholars around the world rallied to
support BASIC ENGLISH as a convenient vehicle for international
communication. BASIC ENGLISH was comprised of a list of 850 words which,
they argued, allow anyone to say almost anything. (See C. K. Ogden, The
System of Basic English. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1934.)
Although few foreigners learn the minimal 850, the list still provides a
good guide for simplicity and accessibility for those who write for
readers who use English as a second language, as well as for younger native
speakers. Technical writers, for example, might want to restrict the
stock of additional words to those which are specific to the technology,
and they might try to describe the new words in terms from the 850.
Requirements
BASIC ENGLISH should work with MS-DOS 2.0+, but I have tested it only on
MS-DOS 3.3.
BASIC ENGLISH requires ASCII text. If you use WordStar or any other word-
processor which adds high-bit characters to your text, you will have to
strip those high-bits, as with UNWS.EXE, CLEAN.COM and various other
programs in the public domain. WordStar versions 4.0+ allow you to strip
any text file if you select ASCII as the printer when you print it. It
prints a new version of your text to a disk file called ASCII.WS. See your
manual.
BASIC ENGLISH requires the following files:
BE.EXE The main program
BE.DF The main data file
BE.DF must be on the logged subdirectory. BE.EXE may be anywhere in the
path. Do not ever alter the format of BE.DF It contains all of 850 words
of BASIC English formatted as BE.EXE requires. If you wish to see them in
a more conventional format, you may TYPE them at the MS-DOS command, of
copy the file into a file with another name, to edit.
Limitations
Those who promote BASIC English never intend to restrict users to the one
inflection in the list of 850. Given the irregularities of English
spelling, with about 97 percent accuracy, BE.EXE accommodates the most
common suffixes: ing, ings, ied, ed, er, ers, ies, es, s. Hence, BE.EXE
will treat "comes" as BASIC, although only "come" appears in the list.
Shareware
BASIC ENGLISH is copyrighted shareware. You may give it away, but you may
not sell it. If you use it after examining it, you are expected to
contribute $5 to
Louie Crew
P. O. Box 64839
Chicago, IL 60664-0839
Other MS-DOS(2.1+) Shareware Available from Louie Crew
All programs come with manuals on the disks.
ADDRESS A program to manage addresses. It processes people by up
to ten categories, which the user specifies. It also sorts by
zip codes and by birthdays. It prints lists and envelopes,
the latter with or without your return address.
It includes RAMADD.EXE, a program in RAM which reports any
address you need while doing other tasks. (Contribute $5)
APPLY A program which monitors applications (for jobs, grants,
contests....), for the applicant. It stores the relevant
data and merges it with text files which you create. It allows you
to edit your text for fine changes. It orders dossiers and prints
your letters, resumes, and envelopes. APPLY reviews any past
experience you may have had with the person/institution before
you try again. (Contribute $10)
CANTONES A program to help you learn to speak Cantonese.
An earlier version, "MailMerge Cantonese," won
best-article-of-1985 by the Hong Kong Computer Society,
reprinted in the Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers'
Association, May 1986. (Contribute $10)
HIRE A program which monitors applications (for jobs,
grants, contests....), for the employer or granting
institution. It stores the relevant data and merges it
with text files which you create. It allows you to edit
your text for fine changes. It writes acknowledgments, alerts
when support documents have not arrived, and writes rejections.
It lets you code the applicants and clone special lists, for
printouts to your committee or for private reference.
It prints your letters and envelopes. HIRE does the busy work.
It lets you respond professionally to everyone and frees time for
you to identify the best applicants. (Contribute $10)
MUSES A program which codes publishers; prints and circulates
manuscripts; queries; catalogs publications; prepares
bibliographies; tallies..... (2 disks) (Contribute $20)
MYLOG Documents how you use your computer. MYLOG works best as a
command within batch files. It adds logs to a file call LOGGED
on your root directory. It lists the log either to screen
or to a disk file, and may list the logs for any one project,
or for all projects in the log. MYLOG computes the time you spent
on each log-in and for all log-ins reported. (Contribute $5)
POETEASE A program which asks you to specify phonetic spelling and then
quickly generates lists which match according to:
1=Assonance
2=Consonance
3=Rhyme
POETEASE requires only 34k. It is easy to SHELL to it from most
word-processors, choose the rhyming word or assonant word...that
you want, and return immediately to your composition.
Pronounce it `poet ease,' `poet tease,' or `poetese': your
skill determines the quality of its service. (Contribute $5)
PRINTASC A program which installs two printers and accesses their special
codes (such as proportional spacing); prints envelopes using the
address typed only once, in the letters themselves; lets you
specify headers, footers, etc. at print time, recognizes several
WordStar dot commands; keeps up with two of your names, two of
your addresses; facilitates indexing... Requires ASCII text, but
shares another public-domain program to let you convert
speedily. (Contribute $5)
STYLED Two programs which monitor prose and measure several
dimensions of style. One graphs and lists to the
screen; another reports to disk files which you can use when
you edit. STYLED monitors sentence length, word length,
punctuation, syntax, weak verbs, and nominalization. (Contribute
$10)
Copy freely. Do not sell. If you use, contribute.
Louie Crew
P. O. Box 64839
Chicago, IL 60664-0839