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- WHAT IS THIS *WORDY* BUSINESS, ANYHOW?
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- Almost all the word lists in this SCRABLST package were *automatically*
- generated using utilities in the WORDY shareware package by the same author.
- Yes, this is an advertisement of sorts for WORDY. For a $2.00 registration
- (plus shipping and handling if you order a disk directly from the author),
- WORDY puts in your hands a complete set of pattern matching, word list
- generating and reformatting utilities, as well as a fun word game to
- practice and exercise Scrabble (tm) playing skills (also useful for other
- word games and crossword puzzle solving). Best of all, WORDY contains at its
- core an all-inclusive list of more than 100,000 words compatible with the
- new ***3rd edition*** of the OSPD (tm). The author has released this word
- list into the Public Domain as a "present" to the Scrabble (tm) community.
- Registered WORDY users now receive as a bonus an additional list of 171,000+
- words over 8 letters long (the WORDY utilities also work with this list). It
- is easy to generate word lists to your specifications and do various flavors
- of anagramming with the WORDY utilities. No serious Scrabble (tm) player
- should be without WORDY. For programmers and bit fiddlers, the WORDY package
- even contains the complete source code, in C, of all the utilities. The
- latest version of WORDY even contains a menu-driven user interface.
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- To show how much more you get in WORDY if you enjoyed SCRABLST, there
- follows a file listing of the (ver. 4.50) WORDY package.
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- Files contained within WORDY
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- READ.ME Info and musings about the programs and the author.
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- WHATS.NEW Updates and additions for this version of WORDY.
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- WORD.LST List of 100,000+ words acceptable for WORDY game,
- and incidentally, also in Scrabble (tm) word
- game. "Compatible" with the OSPD (tm), 3rd ed.
- In ASCII format.
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- WORDY.DOC Instructions for playing the WORDY game.
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- GO.DOC Instructions for using the menu interface that
- can launch almost all the stand-alone utilities.
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- SEARCH.DOC Instructions for using stand-alone search utility.
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- ANAGRAM.DOC Instructions for using stand-alone anagram
- utility.
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- BINGO.DOC Instructions for using stand-alone Bingo-finding
- utility.
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- XFIND.DOC Instructions for using stand-alone word-pattern
- matching utility.
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- UNSCR.DOC Instructions for using stand-alone "unscramble"
- utility.
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- INSET.DOC Instructions for using stand-alone "inset"
- utility.
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- XTRACT.DOC Instructions for using stand-alone "extract"
- utility.
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- RF.DOC Instructions for using file reformat utility.
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- UNRF.DOC Instructions for using file unreformat utility,
- to reverse the effects of RF.
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- PREFIX.DOC Instructions for using prefix word-extractor.
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- SUFFIX.DOC Instructions for using suffix word-extractor.
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- PATTERN.DOC Instructions for using the word pattern finder.
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- OFSET.DOC Instructions for using the OFSET utility to
- generate lists of those words containing a
- specified number of letters from a designated
- letter set.
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- 1DIF.DOC Instructions for using the 1DIF list generator.
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- TOUPPER.DOC Instructions for using the upper case conversion
- for word lists utility.
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- VOWELS.DOC Instructions for using the vowel filter word list
- generator.
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- UTILS.NOT Note on the use of the WORDY utilities.
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- WORDLST.DOC Important information about the WORDY master word
- list. You *must* read this.
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- HPR.DOC Instructions for using the High Probability word
- list generating utility.
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- 1DIF.TXT Rules and description of an exciting new
- Scrabble (tm) variant.
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- EDITORL.NEW Author's comments (flame?) on the 2nd Edition
- of the OSPD (tm). Addendum for 3rd Edition.
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- DISCLAIM.ER Legal disclaimer. Please do not sue the author.
- Or shoot the piano player.
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- WAK.AD Announcement of a new program that works well in
- concert with WORDY.
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- README.1ST This file.
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- WORDY.EXE The game executable for color systems only.
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- WORDYM.EXE The game executable for monochrome systems only.
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- GO.EXE Menu interface for "launching" most of the
- stand-alone utilities.
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- SEARCH.EXE Standalone utility to see if word is in enclosed
- game dictionary.
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- ANAGRAM.EXE Stand-alone anagramming utility.
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- BINGO.EXE Stand-alone Bingo-finding utility.
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- XFIND.EXE Stand-alone word-pattern matching utility.
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- UNSCR.EXE Stand-alone "unscramble" utility for solving
- word-scramble puzzles.
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- INSET.EXE Stand-alone utility to match portions of words in
- master word list in exact order given.
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- PREFIX.EXE Stand-alone utility to extract only those words
- with a given prefix.
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- SUFFIX.EXE Stand-alone utility to extract only those words
- with a given suffix.
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- XTRACT.EXE Stand-alone utility to extract only those words
- from the master word list that include or exclude
- chosen letter sets.
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- 1DIF.EXE Stand-along 1DIF word list generator, for use
- with 1DIF Scrabble (tm) variant.
- (see file 1DIF.TXT).
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- PATTERN.EXE Stand-alone utility to extract only those words
- fitting a designated letter-occurrence pattern.
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- VOWELS.EXE Stand-alone utility to extract only those words
- containing a specified number of vowels.
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- OFSET.EXE Stand-alone utility to extract only those words
- that contain at least a specified number of
- letters from a designated set.
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- HPR.EXE High Probability word list generator.
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- TOUPPER.EXE Utility to convert lower case word lists to
- upper case (capitalization).
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- RF.EXE Utility to reformat pattern-matched files to
- print multiple columns across.
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- UNRF.EXE Utility to reverse the effect of the above RF
- utility.
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- DESCRIPTOR FILES REQUIRED BY VARIOUS DISTRIBUTORS
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- FILE_ID.DIZ Archive description for BBS network distribution.
- SDN.ID Archive description for SDN network distribution.
- SDN.CTL Archive description for Delphi / Bix / Fidonet
- distribution.
- DESC.SDI Short descriptor file of Wordy package.
- AVEXTRA.TXT Short file to create "unzip" message.
- VENDINFO.DIZ Vendor product information descriptor file.
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- ANAGRAM.C Source code for programmers.
- BINGO.C Source code for programmers.
- RF.C Source code for programmers.
- XFIND.C Source code for programmers.
- UNSCR.C Source code for programmers.
- INSET.C Source code for programmers.
- XTRACT.C Source code for programmers.
- SEARCH.C Source code for programmers.
- PREFIX.C Source code for programmers.
- SUFFIX.C Source code for programmers.
- 1DIF.C Source code for programmers.
- PATTERN.C Source code for programmers.
- OFSET.C Source code for programmers.
- HPR.C Source code for programmers.
- TOUPPER.C Source code for programmers.
- UNRF.C Source code for programmers.
- SRCH.H Source code for programmers.
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- And those, gentle people, are the files contained in the WORDY package.
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- Scrabble (tm) and OSPD (tm) are trademarks of the Milton Bradley Co., Inc.
- WORDY is *not* trademarked or copyrighted. It belongs to everyone.
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- The author of SCRABLST AND WORDY takes a modest bow... <grin>
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- The December 1995 issue of PC COMPUTING (page 365) gave WORDY a five-star
- rating (the highest).
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- WORDY (and other shareware / freeware by the author) is available for
- download on many local and national BBS's and on on-line services, on some
- ftp sites on the Internet, from some disk vendors, and on some CD ROM
- shareware compilations. It is also available for direct download from the
- author's Web site, see below. If you are unable to locate it, you may order
- it directly from the author on 3.5" diskette for the (modest) $2.00
- registration + $1.50 shipping & handling. (You can even save yourself the
- $1.50 shipping / handling charge if you enclose a stamped, self-addressed
- disk mailer with a blank 3.5" HD diskette. You will receive in return not
- only the latest OSPD3-compatible version of WORDY (as of this date 4.50),
- but in addition a list of 171,000+ words over 8 letters in length and also a
- selection of the author's other interesting software, including a software
- chess clock that can be used to time Scrabble (tm) games.
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- The latest version of WORDY may be downloaded directly from the author's Web
- home page, see below. This is the full version, not crippled or limited in
- any way.
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- M\Cooper
- PO Box 237
- St. David, AZ 85630-0237
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- E-mail: thegrendel@theriver.com
- Web: http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/
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