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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. Page 2 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. Page 3 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. Page 4 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. Page 5 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. Page 6 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. Page 7 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. Page 8 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