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- About the SageWords interactive word processor
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- What is SageWords?
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- SageWords is an interactive word processor designed to make
- all tasks of document creation or program creation easier and
- more productive. SageWords is composed of nearly 30,000 lines of
- source code compiled in Borland's Turbo Pascal version 4.0
- command line compiler. SageWords has every feature that any
- commercial word processor you have ever seen has, plus more, and
- in addition SageWords is faster. SageWords also takes up little
- active memory, and thus allows other applications or programs to
- run concurrently.
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- SageWords is designed to work with other software!
- SageWords has macros, which will allow you to actually write very
- useful applications using it's built-in macro editor. SageWords
- really performs when included on a Hard drive. SageWords can
- access and use the 100,000 word Random House Dictionary, and the
- 100,000 word Random House Thesaurus included in Borland's Turbo
- Lightning spell checker. SageWords uses it's online 500 most
- common words spell checker and if it fails to locate the word you
- want to check it will then call Turbo Lightning for help.
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- Hardware Requirements
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- SageWords is compatible with all IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 or
- true clones with at least 256K of ram and Two floppy disks or one
- hard disk and one floppy disk. SageWords is compatible with all
- Monochrome, CGA, or EGA monitors. SageWords supports all major
- printers and in addition is able to make printer definition files
- (.PDF) for all other printers you may use. SageWords also
- requires IBM or Microsoft DOS version 2.0 or higher.
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- SageWords Features:
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- SageWords is able to shell command.com to do other tasks.
- What this means is that if you suddenly discover a task that
- requires another application, such as formatting another data
- disk, for instance, you do not need to do a quick save and exit
- SageWords, but rather all you need to do is select the Operating
- System option from the pull-down or shortcut keys menu and do
- your task. Upon completion, simply type exit to return to
- SageWords exactly where you left off. SageWords adds it's own
- unique prompt while in shell as a reminder.
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- SageWords has context sensitive online help, over 78,000
- bytes of it in fact. Pull-down and pop-up help menus assure you
- will easily find the information you need. Help is supplied in
- small pages which the user can flip through as needed. When
- finished with help the user simply presses the escape key to
- return to processing words. SageWords also has "short-cut" keys.
- These are the familiar WordStar (Tm) commands. This gives the
- user the advantage of not having to stop and pull down a menu to
- do a quick save for instance. Rather the user can press a control
- key combination which speeds up productivity and ease of use.
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- SageWords has all fonts supported by all major printers,
- such as Bold, DoubleStrike, Underscore, Compressed, Italic,
- Superscript, and Subscript. SageWords is totally user
- customizeable. What this means is that the user can set Tabs,
- Justification, Margins, Autoindent, Insert or Overstrike mode,
- Display colors, whatever! SageWords is optimized to make all of
- these tasks easy and enjoyable. SageWords saves text in ASCII
- format, so files generated with SageWords can be printed outside
- of SageWords complete with justification. SageWords also converts
- WordStar (Tm) or ANSI format files to ascii format so that the
- user can work with files created with other word processors or
- report generators.
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- Getting Started with SageWords
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- The file SW.TXT contains the complete text used in creating
- the online help supplied by SageWords, and will give you a fair
- idea of the power and features of SageWords. It can be printed
- from SageWords, or by using the DOS command copy sw.txt prn. The
- file SWINST.EXE is an install file for SageWords. It isn't
- necessary to use the install to operate SageWords right away, but
- the install procedure initializes the quick keyboard and macro
- features. To use SageWords simply type sw [Enter]. SageWords
- will pop up in the editing screen ready to type. If you add a
- filename after the sw, SageWords will open a file by that name
- and then be ready to use. For instance, if you had a file named
- LETTER.DOC that you wanted to make changes to you could simply
- type sw letter.doc [Enter].
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- SageWords is totally crash proof and there is nothing you
- can do to hurt it; nevertheless it is a good idea to make a copy
- of the SageWords master diskette and work from the copy. Since
- SageWords is not copy protected a working copy can easily be made
- using either the DOS copy or Diskcopy commands. The user will
- notice that SageWords will eventually teach him or her the
- quick-key combinations. The upper-left corner of the screen
- displays the appropriate command at any time while in the main or
- sub menus. The F10 key displays the main menu and the escape key
- exits from the main menu. The user can re-define the quick key
- combinations using the swinst.exe program. This is sometimes
- necessary for non-standard keyboards.
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- SageWords History
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- SageWords was created on a Tandy 1000 with 640 of RAM, a 64
- megabyte internal hard disk, two 360K floppy disks, 8087 math
- coprocessor, and Zoom 2400B half-card internal modem. SageWords
- was born April 28th, 1988. In the first week SageWords had spread
- to over a dozen Bulletin Board Systems and was receiving national
- distribution in the United States through the PC special interest
- group PC-SIG.
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- SageWords product support
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- SageWords is supported by the Author at:
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- Sage Software Systems
- 4668 Gulfstream Road
- Lake Worth, Florida 33461
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- - or -
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- The Cosmic Annex (East) BBS
- (407) 439-7302
- voice: (407) 641-5108
- 300/1200/2400 Baud 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no
- parity. 24 hours daily!
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