The Best of Select: Games 3/cd.iso/games/wordy/xfind.doc

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XFIND is a word-pattern matching utility  that searches the 94,000-word file
WORD.LST that is part of the WORDY package.   It is primarily intended as an
aid to crossword puzzle solvers, but can be useful in other pencil-and-paper
word games.  What is a 5-letter word with  the first letter an N, the  third
and fourth E's, and the second and fifth unknown?  XFIND to the rescue.

Hand-held electronic gadgets that function as dictionaries or spell-checkers
sometimes have a feature similar to XFIND.  Now you need not pay $30 or more
for these expensive toys in order to solve crossword puzzles electronically.

To use XFIND, simply type: xfind PATTERN, where PATTERN  is a set of letters
with question marks in the  "wildcard" positions.  For example, to match all
the 5-letter words with PR as the first two letters and N as the fourth one,
type: xfind pr?n?. As another example, xfind m??li? finds all 6-letter words
with m as the first letter, l as the fourth, and i as the fifth letter.  The
results are stored in the file, MATCHED.WDS.

XFIND will complete a run in as little as 10 seconds  or less on  a fast 486
machine, and correspondingly longer on an older, slower machine.

Note that the file WORD.LST must be in the  current  directory for XFIND  to
work. WORD.LST is  part of  the shareware WORDY package,  which has a modest
$2.00 registration fee. Registering WORDY also registers XFIND,  at no extra
cost.

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