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PopSaurus v1.1
Pop-Up Thesaurus
Copyright 1992, Acropolis Software
Robert Bequette
Acropolis Software
P.O. Box 5037
Fair Oaks, CA 95628
THE LEGAL STUFF
PopSaurus is provided on an "as is" basis without warranty of
any kind expressed or implied. In no event will Acropolis
Software be liable to you for any damages, including any lost
profits, lost savings or other incidental or consequential
damages arising out of the use of or inability to use the
program, even if Acropolis Software has been advised of the
possibility of such damages, or for any claim by any other party.
PopSaurus is copyrighted by Acropolis Software. You are
encouraged to give copies to your friends and upload it to
bulletin boards, however sale of the program for profit by
anyone except Acropolis Software is strictly prohibited. With
the exception of a small fee for duplication. That fee does not
register you as a user of PopSaurus. If you like PopSaurus
and find it useful you are asked to register as a users with
Acropolis Software. (See "REGISTRATION" at the bottom of this
document for information on how to register).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction ...................................... 1
File list ...................................... 1
Requirements ...................................... 1
Installation
Two Drive System ...................................... 2
Hard Drive System ...................................... 2
Quick Start Instructions ...................................... 3
How to use to PopSaurus ...................................... 4
One Shot ...................................... 4
Stand Alone ...................................... 5
Resident ...................................... 7
Warnings and Information ...................................... 8
Questions or Comments ....................................... 9
Page 1
INTRODUCTION
PopSaurus is a Pop-up thesaurus. With it you can - at any time - pop
up a screen and search the thesaurus for just the right word to use
in your writing. PopSaurus has three modes of operation:
STAND ALONE
By typing "PS" at the MSDOS command line PopSaurus will allow you
to type in words and find synonyms for them.
ONE SHOT
By typing ps and a word at the MSDOS command line (i.e. "PS BABY")
PopSaurus will display a list of synonyms for that word (if it can
find it) and immediately quit. It is a quick-and-dirty way to look
for a synonym.
RESIDENT
Resident is by far the most useful mode. By typing "PS -R" at the
MSDOS command line, PopSaurus becomes resident in memory and ready
for activation. When you are working with your favorite word
processor or text editor, you can pop up PopSaurus and look for the
right word to use in every situation. But that isn't all it will do.
If the cursor is positioned on or after a word PopSaurus will assume
that is the word you want to find synonyms for and display the entries
for it. Cursor around to select the word you want and press [F1].
Presto! You are back in your program and the original word has been
replaced with the new one you selected.
PopSaurus currently has 8,282 entry points into 70,793 words.
In the resident mode it takes up less than 10K of RAM. Not much
considering the functionality.
FILE LIST
PopSaurus comes with the following files:
PS.EXE The PopSaurus Program.
PS.SAR The thesaurus containing all the words.
PS.DOC This manual.
REGISTER.DOC PopSaurus registration form.
CONFIGPS.EXE PopSaurus configuration program.
REQUIREMENTS
The minimum system requirements to run PopSaurus are:
256K of RAM
Hard drive (or floppy ** LARGER ** than 360K)
MSDOS/PCDOS version 2.1 or higher
A hard drive is highly recommended. On a floppy drive system the
disk containing the thesaurus (PS.SAR) must be in the drive it was
in when PopSaurus was started. Also there must be enough free space
on the floppy to hold PopSaurus temporary swap file, approximately 24K,
when running in the resident mode. The swap file is how PopSaurus
gets away with using less than 10K of RAM when resident.
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INSTALLATION
Two Disk Drive System Installation
Start up you computer with a DOS disk in drive A:. Now place a
blank disk in drive B: and type: "FORMAT B:"
When the formatting is finished place the disk containing PopSaurus
in drive A: and use the following commands: "COPY PS.EXE B:" and
"COPY PS.SAR B:"
You now have a PopSaurus working disk. Put your master PopSaurus
disk away in a safe place.
Hard Drive System Installation
To install PopSaurus on your hard drive you can do one of two things.
Install it in the subdirectory that holds your msdos/pcdos external
commands or install it in its own subdirectory. Installing it in
the MSDOS command directory is the easiest and most convenient.
Most people with hard drives have a subdirectory called DOS, MSDOS,
PCDOS, BIN, or something similar they use to store the external
DOS commands (i.e. FORMAT, DISKCOPY and so on). It usually already
has the path pointing at it. If that is how you have your hard drive
set up, copy the following files into the directory: "PS.EXE" and
"PS.SAR".
If you do not have your external commands in the path or you do
not wish to add PopSaurus into your DOS directory you can make a
subdirectory just for PopSaurus. Call it whatever you like; it
doesn't matter to PopSaurus.
You can either change to the directory that PopSaurus is in to start
it or you can add/change the path command in you AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
By doing so you can use PopSaurus from any where (i.e. in your word
processor's subdirectory, from a from another disk). Using a text
editor add the following line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
PATH=C:\PS
That is assuming you called the subdirectory that you copied
PopSaurus into PS on your C: drive. It you called the directory
something else or place it on a different hard drive, change the
name of the drive and subdirectory accordingly.
If you already have a path command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file add
the PopSaurus directory by separating it from the other directories
with a semicolon:
PATH=C:\MSDOS;C:\TURBO;C:\PS
Once you have rebooted the system so that the PopSaurus subdirectory
is added to the path you can use PopSaurus from any subdirectory.
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QUICK START INSTRUCTIONS
For those who do not like to read manuals, here are the instructions
to get PopSaurus running. The command keys are listed on the screen.
For more in depth instructions on using PopSaurus please read the
"How To Use PopSaurus" section of the manual.
At the DOS Prompt type one of the following:
PS (Stand alone mode)
PS word (One shot mode)
PS -r (Resident mode)
Starting PopSaurus without anything on the command line will place
you in the stand alone mode. In the stand alone mode you can type
in words and use the right and left arrow keys to move around the
entry for the words to search the thesaurus.
Starting PopSaurus with a word on the command line will cause it
to search the thesaurus for that word and display the entry for
it or the word in the thesaurus that is alphabetically the next
word in the thesaurus if there is no entry for the word you were
looking up.
Starting PopSaurus with a -r (or -r) on the command line will place
it in the resident mode. In other words it will load and stay in
memory waiting for you to use it. You can pop it up at any time by
pressing the CTRL-ALT keys and then the TAB key. Alternately if you
have used the CONFIGPS.EXE program to change the hotkey combination
then you should use that combination instead. If the cursor is on a
word it will be the word PopSaurus will search the thesaurus for.
Once the screen is up you can use PopSaurus normally. This mode has
one more feature. If you find a word you would rather use, you can
highlight it and press the [F1] key. PopSaurus will exit back to
where you started it from and replace the original word with the
one you have selected.
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How to use PopSaurus
PopSaurus has three modes of operation:
One Shot
Stand Alone
Resident
Of the three modes One Shot is the easiest to explain and consequently
the least useful. The other two modes operate similarly with the
except that the "resident" mode will pop up over other programs and
has the ability to replace a word in the program it was popped up over.
ONE SHOT MODE
The One Shot mode is simple to use. At the MSDOS command prompt
type in PS and a word then press RETURN. PopSaurus will search the
thesaurus file and print the entry for that word. If the word you
were looking for was not found, the entry for the word that would
follow it in the thesaurus will be printed.
As an example if you typed the following:
C> PS bar
PopSaurus would print an entry similar to the following:
Word: "BAR"
{Noun}
1. [LONG NARROW OBJECT] STAKE, STICK, POLE, SPAR, RAIL, LEVER,ROD,
CROWBAR.
2. [A TAVERN] TAVERN, LOUNGE, SALOON, CANTEEN, PUB.
3. [LEGAL PROFESSION] LAWYERS, COUNSELORS, BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS,
JURISTS, JUDICIARY.
4. [AN OBSTRUCTION] HINDRANCE, OBSTACLE, HURDLE, BARRIER.
{Verb}
1. [TO OBSTRUCT] BARRICADE, DAM, FENCE, BOLT, STOP, IMPEDE.
2. [TO FORBID] BAN, FORBID, DENY, REFUSE, PREVENT, STOP, EXCLUDE,
EXILE, OUTLAW, CONDEMN, DISCOURAGE.
3. [TO CLOSE] SHUT, LOCK, SEAL, CLOSE.
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Some of the words would be in yellow on a color monitor or high
intensity on a monochrome monitor. Those are words that have further
entries. In the above example if the word "RAIL" had an entry
associated with it, it would be yellow (or high intensity).
You could then use PopSaurus in the One Shot mode again with:
C> PS rail
to look at the entry for "RAIL". It is not the easiest way to do
multiple searches into the thesaurus and that is why it is called
the One Shot mode; it is cumbersome when you're looking up more than
one word. For more power and ease of us doing multiple searches, use
PopSaurus in the Stand Alone mode.
STAND ALONE
PopSaurus is much more convenient in the Stand Alone mode. When you
start PopSaurus without entering either a word or "-r" on the command
line, PopSaurus will enter the Stand Alone mode. Once loaded,
PopSaurus will display a screen with the following commands listed at
the bottom of the display:
Word to look up: _ PgUp - Prev Word <,> - To Move
PgDn - Next Word ESC - To Back Up
RETURN - To search F10 - To Quit
Now just type in the word to look up and press RETURN. PopSaurus
will scan the thesaurus and display the entry for the word you
entered on the top part of the screen. If the word you were looking
for was not found the next word (alphabetically) in the thesaurus is
displayed instead. Assuming you had typed in "SIGN" and pressed
[RETURN] you will have a list of words similar to this displayed:
Word: "SIGN"
{Noun}
1. [A SIGNAL] INDICATION, CLUE, OMEN, PREMONITION, FOREBODING,
FOREKNOWLEDGE, TOKEN, PROPHECY, SYMBOL, WARNING,
FLAG, BEACON, SIGNAL.
2. [AN EMBLEM] EMBLEM, INSIGNIA, BADGE, CREST.
3. [A SYMBOL] TYPE, SENSE, TOKEN.
{Verb}
1. [AUTHORIZE] APPROVE, ENDORSE, CONFIRM, ACKNOWLEDGE.
2. [INDICATE] MEAN, EXPRESS, SIGNIFY, SIGNAL.
3. [HIRE] ENGAGE, HIRE, CONTRACT, EMPLOY.
Some of the words will be displayed in yellow on a color monitor or
high intensity on a monochrome monitor. Those are words that have
further thesaurus entries for them. Use the left and right arrow
keys to move around the list and select a word for it to look up.
Once you have the desired word high-lighted press [RETURN] to find
the thesaurus entry. If you press RETURN and nothing happens it is
because you have a non-yellow (or normal intensity) word high-lighted
and there is not an entry for it.
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For example if you were to high-light the word "ENDORSE" by moving to
it using the left and right arrow keys and then to press [RETURN],
the display would change to something like the following:
Word: "ENDORSE"
{Verb}
1. [ONE'S NAME] SIGN, UNDERWRITE, NOTARIZE.
2. [ACTIVE SUPPORT] APPROVE, CONFIRM, SANCTION, SATISFY,
GUARANTEE, UNDERWRITE.
You can also use the Page Up and Page Down keys to move to the next
or pervious word (alphabetically) in the thesaurus and search it that
way.
If you have used RETURN to move from one entry to the next you can
use the [ESC] key to move back to the previous entry.
At anytime you can use the Backspace key to erase the current word
and type in a new one. Press [RETURN] and that word will be looked
up for you.
The [F10] key will quit PopSaurus and return you to the DOS prompt.
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RESIDENT
To place PopSaurus in the Resident mode start it by typing:
PS -r
PopSaurus will load itself into memory and return to the DOS prompt.
Now you can use PopSaurus from inside of any application that you use.
The exception is that you cannot bring PopSaurus up when you are in a
graphics based program (i.e. a word processor that runs with a graphics
display instead of text mode).
To bring PopSaurus up, press the CTRL-ALT-TAB keys all at the same
time. In other words hold down the CTRL and ALT keys and then press
the TAB key. On some keyboards the TAB key is not labeled but you
can find it by looking for the key that has two arrows on it, one
pointing left and the other pointing right. If you have used the
CONFIGPS program to change the hot key you must use that key
combination instead.
Once you press the hot key combination PopSaurus will take control
of the screen and then function just as it does in the Stand Alone
mode with a few exceptions:
If the cursor is positioned on or just after a word it will look up
that word and display the thesaurus entry for it.
There is also one extra command in the resident mode. Added to the
commands at the bottom of the display you will see the [F1] key listed.
Like the [F10] key it exits PopSaurus, but in addition to quitting it
will replace the word that was under the cursor when you popped it up
with the word that you have highlighted when you press the [F1] key.
If you do not want to replace the word quit PopSaurus with the use
of the [F10] key.
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WARNINGS AND INFORMATION
PopSaurus creates a temporary swap file to hold itself in when it is
not popped up. The file name is PS.SWP. If you delete this file
PopSaurus will not pop up when you press the CTRL-ALT-TAB keys (or
whatever combination you may have changed it to with the CONFIGPS
program). Instead it will just beep at you. It will do the same
thing if you have it installed on a floppy and remove the floppy
contains the temporary file.
The file is placed at the location that PopSaurus finds the PS.SAR
file. Either somewhere in the PATH= or where the environment variable
PS tells it to look for the PS.SAR file. If it cannot be located in
either of those locations but can be found in the current directory
the PS.SWP file will be located there as well.
PopSaurus was created with the aid of the TSR's Made Easy routines
sold by TurboPower Software.
Page 9
QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS
If you have any questions or comments I can be reached through the
U.S. Mail at:
Acropolis Software
P.O. Box 5037
Fair Oaks, CA 95628
Or electronically:
On CompuServe by sending EasyPlex mail to 75146,3471
On America On-Line by sending mail to RobertB377
REGISTRATION
This is not a crippled version of PopSaurus, but a full working version.
If you use PopSaurus and find it useful, I ask that you send $20 to
Acropolis Software to register your copy in return you will receive a
disk containing the latest version of both the program and thesaurus
file and a printed manual.
When you register your copy of PopSaurus, please use the order form
below. If you do not use the form, please specify that you are
registering PopSaurus and indicate your preferred disk format
(5 1/4" or 3 1/2").
Purchases of 10 or more copies will receive a site license which
includes two master copies of PopSaurus and a license agreement
giving you the right to make the specified number of copies. The
cost per copy of PopSaurus purchased in this manner is only $10.00
a per copy desired.
_______________________________________________________________________
Registration / Order Form
Name : __________________________
Company : __________________________
Address : __________________________
__________________________
City/State : __________________________
Zip Code : __________________________
(Optional)
Phone : __________________________
Basic registration (less than 10 copies) : $15 x ___ = $ ______
Site license registration (10 or more copies) : $10 x ___ = $ ______
*** California residents add 7.75% sales tax *** CA Tax $ ______
Shipping & Handling : 2.50
Total $ ______
Disk Format: 5 1/4" ___ 3 1/2" ___
The product being registered is PopSaurus v1.1.
You will receive the latest version of PopSaurus, the thesaurus file
and a printed manual.
Send check or money order to:
Acropolis Software
P.O. Box 5037
Fair Oaks, CA 95628