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- A L L P H O N E W O R D v1.1
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- AllPhoneWord accepts telephone numbers and tries to make English words
- from them by generating all possible letter combinations from the digits.
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- AllPhoneWord is public domain and may be freely distributed.
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- ------------- H O W T O U S E A L L P H O N E W O R D ---------------
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- To run AllPhoneWord type "AllPhoneWord" at the CLI prompt, or double-click
- its icon.
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- A brief set of instructions will be displayed, and then a prompt for you
- to enter 1 to 7 digits, as in part or all of a phone number. Zero and one
- are not accepted (there are no letters on the phone dial for 0 and 1);
- If you enter more than seven digits or anything that is not a digit 2-9
- then an appropriate message is displayed.
-
- If the phone number has ones or zeroes, then enter groups of the digits
- other one and zero. For example, if the number is 691-4567, then try
- 4567 (and maybe 69). You should try grouping the seven digits in
- different ways anyway, since two words might be found easier than
- big one. For example if the number is 234-5678, you could try
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- 23 & 45678,
- 234 & 5678,
- 2345 & 678,
- 23456 & 78,
- 2345678.
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- If you do a group of three digits and a group of four, you will only
- have to inspect 91 "words", whereas if you enter a seven-digit number
- all at once you will be presented with 2,187 possible "words".
-
- After you enter the 1-7 digits a list of all possible "words" will be
- displayed. If there is more than one screenful of "words" there will
- be a pause and prompt at the bottom of the screen. After all "words"
- have been displayed you will be prompted for a new set of 1-7 digits.
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- When you get the prompt for 1-7 digits you may press <RETURN> without
- typing any preceeding characters to quit.
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- NOTE: There are 2187 different "words" for seven digits, so be prepared
- to see them all. You can type ^C and <RETURN> to escape a long list
- but that will cause AllPhoneWord to exit.
-
- Do not RUN AllPhoneWord, as in "RUN AllPhoneWord", because it won't work.
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- -------------- H O W A L L P H O N E W O R D W O R K S ----------------
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- AllPhoneWord was programmed in Manx Aztec C using recursion to generate
- a variable number of nested 'for' loops, where the number of nested 'for'
- loops depends on the number of digits entered.
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- -------------------------- W H O D I D I T ----------------------------
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- Ron Charlton
- 9002 Balcor Circle
- Knoxville, TN 37923
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- Phone: (615)694-0800
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- PLINK: R*CHARLTON
- BINTNET: charltr@utkvx1
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- 05-Jul-90
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