CORRECT-IT SPELLING CHECKER USER MANUAL
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1. own Section 6 0 of this manual explains exactly how to build an auxiliary dictionary If CORRECT finds the file called AUXDICT TXT it will print Checking auxiliary dictionary AUXDICT TXT and automatically use it to check your original document If CORRECT cannot find AUXDICT TXT on the currently logged disk it pauses and asks Do you want to use an auxiliary dictionary Y OR N If you do want to supply an auxiliary dictionary answer Y followed by an RETURN You will then be prompted Enter name of auxiliary dictionary You may enter any name you wish at this point which gives you the option of keeping separate auxiliary dictionaries for different applications CORRECT will then try to find the file you specified After the auxiliary dictionary you specified is scanned the cycle will be repeated until you answer N This allows any number of different auxiliary dictionaries to be used To summarize if AUXDICT TXT is present on the currently logged disk then it will be read automatically and the names of additional auxiliary dictionaries not requested If AUXDICT TXT is not found then CORRECT allows you to enter the names of an arbitrary number of auxiliary dictionaries Once the auxiliary dictionaries have been scanned CORRECT goes on to the next phase listing the command menu After the file has been read and sorted and all dictionaries checked CORRECT will display 2 CORRECT finished checking B MYFILE TXT U2. CORRECT IT SPELLING CHECKER USER MANUAL Morrow Designs 600 McCormick St San Leandro CA 94577 Correct It Spelling checker licensed to Morrow Designs Ine by Aspen Software Company Copyright e 1982 Aspen Software Company All rights reserved Reproduction by any method prohibited Correct It is a trademark of Morrow Designs Inc Correct It The Morrow Designs Correct It Spelling Checker Table of Contents O Introduction eecoerevevevevevereeeeeeveevee eee ee amp 8 1 0 Setting up Correct It eeoeoeeeeeeveeveee eo 1 Backing up distribution package 2 Organizing files CEF E O O O S O S E S 6 0 0 0 Checking a file with Correct It FIXUP eeeee erreeeeP seseeese e re tee eseeesetf ee eeerteee es8 868 WO 0 WWUW 4 1 Running FIXUP r e r S E E E E E E E E S E E S E E S se 4 2 FIXUP Commands Tiree ee ee ee a ee ee ee 10 4 2 1 Start Up Options 10 4 2 2 Interactive Correction Menu 11 4 2 3 Wrap Up Options eeeeee ees 6 13 5 0 Sample Correct It Session eeeeeeeeee 15 6 0 Adding words to auxiliary dictionary 18 7 0 Updating master dictionary eeeeee0n7eeetgee amp 20 8 0 LOOKUP utility ceoevreveeevseeevoeeee eee eoe eee ee 0 21 9 0 Correct It Technical Notes eeeeoevoveee eos ee 0 22 Index 1 0 Introduction This manual contains the instructions for using Correct It for CPM based microcomputers This program is included
3. ak Keep that in mind when you go back to correct your file Also don t forget that the misspelled word may appear more than once in your document All words just one letter long are considered correct Correct It does not handle hyphenated words You should check your document before inserting hyphens Also words are only checked to see if they are in the dictionary Correct It cannot find mistakes such as from misspelled as form Correct It also handles plurals of words found in the source document a little differently If the letter before the ending s is not a vowel another s an f an x a ty a ch or an sh Correct It assumes the word is a regular plural and drops the s to form the singular of the word The singular is then used to look up the word in the dictionary This technique extends the effective dictionary size by about 10 000 words with no sacrifice in accuracy This algorithm is very accurate and used only for regular plurals Since it is not possible to use an algorithm to correctly form the Singular of words that do not meet the above conditions i e words that end in a vowel ch etc the dictionary contains many plurals for that class of words Correct It allows you to disable the plural recognition algorithm When starting Correct It if you use the NOP switen no plural checking will be performed For example CORRECT FILE TXTNOP You will find that using NOP greatly inereases the si
4. ary If you decide you don t want to save any of the new words you can enter N to not save then See section 6 0 for more details about auxiliary dictionaries Finally FIXUP will give you the choice of deleting the bad word file or to return to CPM To delete the unknown word file Simply enter D The bad word file will be deleted and you can then exit to CPM To exit enter E 14 5 0 Sample Correct It Session The following is the printout of an actual session with Correct It Note that user input is underlined Explanatory comments are enclosed in braces and would not appear in the actual session A gt CORRECT b short txt Morrow Designs Correct It Spelling Checker V1 0 Licensed from Aspen Software Company p 1982 Reading file Sorting file Number of different words found 46 Checking master dictionary Checking auxiliary dictionary AUXDICT TXT CORRECT finished checking B SHORT TXT Unknown words 3 select any option C Correct file B SHORT TXT D Display unknown words on screen E Exit from CORRECT S Save unknown words in file B SHORT BWD H HREe Enter C D E or S d d display words seeossuse List of unknown words z s s Querey speeling spellbinder Press RETURN to continue with command menu lt RETURND gt Unknown words 3 select any option C Correct file B SHORT TXT D Display unknown words on screen E Exit from CORRECT S Save unknown words
5. best organization is to keep your word processor WordStar on one disk used in A and Correct It on a second disk to use from A You may also want to keep other useful day to day utilities such as PIP and STAT on A Then use drive B for disks containing your documents You can also keep DICTEDIT and LOOKUP on your main System disk but you may want to keep them on a separate disk for occasional use so that there is more room for extending the dictionary 3 0 Checking a file with Correct It Correct It has been designed to be as simple to use as possible The easiest way to learn how to use Correct It is to check a sample file First make a scratch copy of some file to check Then start Correct It as described in the next paragraph Remember that a typical Correct It session consists of the following two steps 1 Find unknown words with CORRECT 2 Correct original document with FIXUP Read along in the manual as Correct It progresses checking your file This manual will first go over the options allowed with the Correct It checking step and will then describe the options allowed with FIXUP Assume you have placed the CPM system and the distribution files onto a new disk that the disk is mounted in drive A and that drive A is the currently logged drive Assume that the file you wish to check is on a file called MYFILE TXT contained on a disk mounted on drive B Use the following command to check the file comments are en
6. closed in and are not part of the command gt A log on to drive A A gt CORRECT B MYFILE TXT run CORRECT Note that the drive B was specified with the filename MYFILE TXT If MYFILE TXT had been present on the currently logged drive here A then it would not have been necessary to Specify the B In actual use you may use any combination of drives you have and find convenient to use Optionally you may be able to run CORRECT from the NO FILES menu of WordStar This will require having all WordStar and all Correct It modules plus your document on line at the same time This will not normally be possible with the Micro Decision but you may be able to keep WordStar plus your documents on Ay and Correct It on B Use the RUN command from the NO FILES menu and respond with CORRECT MYFILE TXT just as shown above After it has been started CORRECT will first print Reading file During this phase CORRECT reads in your entire document and remembers all the unique words in it CORRECT has a capacity of over 3000 different words in your source document with a total of over 15 000 letters depending on your RAM memory size In practice most documents usually contain less than 800 different words If you should ever exceed the limits CORRECT will print a message telling you to split your document After your file has been read CORRECT will sort the different words it found and print the message Sorti
7. e width t i l Enter C M or W _ The C choice enters interactive correction mode During interactive correction mode FIXUP will pause when an unknown word is found and prompt you for additional instructions This mode is most useful for unjustified WordStar files as well as files created by most other word processors The M option tells FIXUP to mark each unknown word in the file with a sharp sign For example mistak will be marked as mistak The mark option can be useful when the justification of the source text could be changed by correcting the word interactively If the M option is selected the file will be scanned and marked with no additional interaction necessary You should then use your word processor s find command to search for the marks and make appropriate corrections The W option tells FIXUP that a justified WordStar file is being checked WordStar mode will allow interactive correction just like the C option but if you correct a word and the width of the correction is different that the original the word will be marked with a sharp sign This is only necessary when the text is justified After the file has been corrected you must go back to WordStar use the Find command to find and remove all the marks then use the B command to rejustify the paragraphs 4 2 2 FIXUP Interactive Correction Command Menu The interactive correction mode is the easiest way to correct
8. ically writes out the unknown words to a file with a BWD extension e g MYFILE BWD just as with the S command Then FIXUP is started just as though the command line FIXUP MYFILE TXT had been entered at the CPM command level If FIXUP COM is not available on the currently logged disk you will be prompted for the drive and name of the file where the FIXUP program really is e g B FIXUP COM If FIXUP is totally unavailable you may use Control C to abort to CPM the BWD file will have already been saved Note that CPM does not allow you to change disks without performing a warm start between disk changes A warm start is caused by Control C or the way some programs terminate Thus if FIXUP COM is not contained on a disk mounted when CORRECT was first run you will not be able to use it without first exiting from CORRECT to CPM D Display unknown words on screen This command causes the unknown words to be displayed on the screen All the unknown words are shown on the screen several to a line If the sereen completely fills up CORRECT will pause until you press the RETURN key After all the words are listed CORRECT again pauses until RETURN is pressed and then returns to the command menu E Exit from CORRECT This command will exit from CORRECT back to CPM This command should be used after the D or S commands have been used to return to CPM Using C causes control to pass to FIXUP S Save unknown words i
9. in file B SHORT BWD wan Enter C D Ey or Si e correct file RE Loading FIXUP COM Morrow Design Correct It tm FIXUP Version 1 0 Licensed from Aspen Software Company c p 1982 There are two options for FIXUP C Correct unknown words interactively M Mark unknown words in file with W WordStar mode Correct mark if change width 15 Enter C M or W e e interactive correction mode This is a short file that demonstrates some of the features of Morrow Design s Correct It speeling checker It allows you to HH X Unknown word speeling Word correction mode Options A Accept word for rest of session don t learn Correct word prompt will follow Dictionary help Find a word in dictionary Exit accept word and discontinue checking Learn word for auxiliary dictionary One time acceptance of word orma A C D E L O H for Help e correct word Enter exact replacement spelling correct mistakes interactively querey the dictionary for help 9 HRRR ER Unknown word querey A C D E L O H for Help d d dictionary help Unknown word was querey Press RETURN only to look up querey OR enter a new word to look up lt RETURN gt use querey Looking for querey queen queer queerer queerest quell quelling quemoy quench quenching queried queries querulous querulously query querying notice query is correc quest questing question questionable questioned questio
10. ing Correct It The PIP utility may be helpful for building auxiliary dictionaries 2 0 Setting up Correct It Correct It is easy to use You probably don t even need to read this manual BU Ts s Before you try to use Correct It make sure you have created a working system diskette containing the Correct It program see Chapter 5 in the Micro Decision User s Guide Then spend alittle time organizing your files and disks gt Even though you can probably begin checking files immediately this manual is not that long and a little time Spent reading it will pay off in the long run 2 1 Backing up the software Distribution Diskette Correct It is distributed on the software Distribution Diskettes Before attempting to use Correct It you also should make a backup of the files contained on the Distribution Diskettes Use the backup copy option number 7 on the CREATE A WORKING OR SYSTEM DISKETTE menu provided with your Micro Decision software 2 2 Organizing files You will find that life will be easier if you put some thought into how you organize your files The part of Correct It required for day to day operation requires about 150K bytes of free disk Space The LOOKUP utility requires about another 10K and DICTEDIT another 20K bytes although neither of these two utilities are required for normal operation Since your drives allow about 186K of user file space the entire Correct It package will fit onto a single disk The
11. ing that you need not enter the entire word to look it up ow B gt LOOKUP Morrow Designs Correct It tm LOOKUP utility Version 1 0 Licensed from Aspen Software Company p 1982 Enter word to lookup Ctrl C to exit example Looking for example FOUND exalt exaltation exalted exalting examination examine examined examiner examines examining example examples exasperate exasperated exasperating exasperation excavate excavation exceed exceeded exceeding Enter word to lookup Ctrl C to exit albu Looking for albu alamo alan alarm alarmed alarming alarmingly alas alaska alba albeit album albuquerque notice word found alchemy aleohol alcoholic alcoholism aleorn alcove alcoves alden alder Enter word to lookup Ctrl C to exit C 21 9 0 Correct It Technical Notes This section contains some technical notes about Correct It s dictionary and the methods used to detect unknown words Correct It s dictionary is a little over 36 000 words long That is fairly big but by no means contains all the words of the English language Just because an unknown word is listed does not mean that it is really incorrect a Correct It ignores upper and lower case completely If Correct It lists mistak as an unknown word then some form of mistak appears somewhere in you source file However that may be as Mistak or MISTAK or any other combination of upper and lower case letters as well as just mist
12. iscontinue checking The E exit option allows you to discontinue checking and exit from FIXUP The remainder of the original file will be copied to the new output file with no additional checking L Learn word for auxiliary dictionary The Lt learn option allows FIXUP to learn the word The word is accepted just as with the A option In addition FIXUP remembers the word for possible output to a file at the end of the FIXUP session The learned words may also later be appended to your auxiliary dictionary O One time acceptance of word The O one time option allows you to accept the word just once If the word is found later in the same document FIXUP will again pause and request a response 4 2 3 FIXUP Wrap Up options After the entire file has been scanned FIXUP may display Several messages and command menus depending on just what happened during the session If WordStar correction mode had been specified FIXUP will print out how many corrected words actually changed width If any did change width you will be reminded to go back to WordStar and remove the marks and rejustify the paragraphs If any new words were learned with the L command you will have the option of saving them You may specify A to append the new words to an existing auxiliary dictionary file You will be prompted for the name of the existing auxiliary dictionary If you specify C you will be able to create a new auxiliary diction
13. led FILE1 NEW and the bad word list is called FILE1 BAD you could run FIXUP with the following command line A gt FIXUP FILE1 TXTO FILE1 NEWB FILE1 BAD To use the switches you must start FIXUP from CPM and not automatically from CORRECT If you are entering the file name following the prompt instead of on the original command line you may use the switches in the same format Invoking FIXUP from CORRECT is the same as running it with a command line in the form FIXUP MYFILE TXT The file MYFILE TXT will be checked using the unknown word file MYFILE BWD the corrected copy written to MYFILE TXT and the Original file renamed to MYFILE BAK 7 4 2 FIXUP Commands FIXUP starts by reading in the unknown word list then scans your original file for occurrences of the unknown words The Original file is displayed line by line on the screen giving you the context of the mistakes It is also copied exactly to the new Output file except for any corrections you make to the file EE EE Cee EC When FIXUP first starts it gives you two choices on the following command menu amp Tom ap ah 8 8 ow oP ae ow 88 SF eS ee aae a oO 2D a a oF 4D OF of FF aa P ap OO D aa aD o of 2 oD 4 Oo o CD oO OD ow ah 48 ow ow Of OP ow 2 we oe Se oe oD oe oe oe oe ow on There are three options for FIXUP i C Interactively correct unknown words M Mark unknown words in file with i W WordStar mode Correct mark if chang
14. lso be used to create or edit an auxiliary dictionary The only format requirement of the words contained in an auxiliary dictionary is that each word be formed from the standard ascii letter characters and be separated from the next by any character that is not a letter It is easiest to use blanks or end of lines to Separate words but you can use commas or any other non letter you want You can also put several words on each line if you like The words in an auxiliary dictionary do not need to be in any particular order nor is there any restriction on upper or lower case as Correct It will always fold words to one case for internal use For your own benefit however you might want to keep the words in alphabetical order The words you add to an auxiliary dictionary should be at least two letters long and less than 40 letters long Duplicate words will not hurt anything You can add as many words as you like to an auxiliary dictionary up to the limit of the space available on one disk file The following procedure is suggested for building up your auxiliary dictionary 1 Maintain only one master version of your auxiliary dictionary If it is called AUXDICT TXT it will be automatically read in by Correct It While you may want to have separate versions for different applications keeping one will ensure that duplicate words don t work their way into the auxiliary dictionary You may Start with the sample AUXDICT TXT create your own wi
15. ly marks the corrected words when their width has changed In any case a new copy of your file is generated and the original copy left untouched as an added protection feature 4 1 Running FIXUP First you should check your original document file using CORRECT FIXUP may either be invoked directly from CORRECT with the C command to the CORRECT command menu or it may be run Separately The unknown words found by CORRECT are passed to FIXUP through a disk file FIXUP will automatically look for a file with the same name part as the document being checked but with a BWD extension for bad word Thus if the original document checked by CORRECT is called MYFILE TXT FIXUP will expect the unknown word list to be called MYFILE BWD CORRECT will automatically write the unknown word file when FIXUP is invoked with tne C command The CORRECT S save words command will also automatically use a BWD extension Before you invoke FIXUP you must be sure that there will be enough free disk space available for a new copy of your original file This is especially critical for one drive systems If there is not enough free disk space FIXUP will abort before it is finished although your original file will not be altered in any way and the unknown word file will be retained If this happens free some disk space with the ERA command then run FIXUP again The interactive correction modes of FIXUP require that DICT BIN and DINDEX BIN be o
16. n file MYFILE BWD This command will write the unknown words to a disk file The file uses the same name part as the file being checked e g MYFILE with a BWD extension for bad word This command is useful if you are not going to use FIXUP and want to save the words or if there is not enough room to Keep both CORRECT and FIXUP on line at the same time If you had been checking a file called B MYFILE TXT the S command would write out the unknown words to a file called B MYFILE BWD The C and G commands will also cause a BWD file to be saved on the disk After you are finished using the bad word file it will remain on the disk until you use the CPM ERA erase command to delete the file 4 0 FIXUP FIXUP is an easy to use program that allows you to interactively correct the original source document after it has been checked by CORRECT It uses the unknown word list provided by CORRECT and scans your document for each occurrence of the words contained in the list For each unknown word found you are given the choice of correcting it accepting it for the rest of the document accepting it just one time or accepting and learning it for later inclusion in the auxiliary dictionary Instead of correcting the document you may optionally simply mark the unknown words with the symbol for later correction using your word processor There is also a special WordStar mode that allows interactive correction and additional
17. n line The currently logged drive will be checked for these two files first If they are not present on the current drive then drive A will be automatically be checked If the dictionary files are not available either on the currently logged drive or on drive A FIXUP will prompt you for the drive and names of the dictionary files to use The easiest way to run FIXUP is to automatically invoke it with the C command from the CORRECT command menu FIXUP may also be run directly from CPM by using the following command line after the CPM X gt prompt X gt FIXUP FILENAME EXT In this format FIXUP will use FILENAME EXT as the input file and look for a bad word list called FILENAME BWD By default the corrected file will have the same name as the original and the Original file will be renamed to FILENAME BAK These conventions are the Same as used by WordStar as well as most other editors on CPM You may also run FIXUP without specifying the filename on the Original command line In that case FIXUP will prompt you for the file name The prompt will also appear if you give a bad file name originally There are two switches that may be used to override the file name defaults The O switch allows you to specify exactly the name of the new output file The B switch allows you to specify the name of the bad word list Suppose your original file was called FILE1 TXT If you want the new version of the file to be cal
18. ner x unknown word querey A C D E L O H for Help c e correct querey Enter exact replacement query the correct spelling and add new words to the dictionary It is also compatible with most CPM word processors such as WordStar Magie Wand Spellbinder and Select Pd 22 42 Unknown word Spellbinder A C D E L O H for Help 1 l learn Spellbinder END OF FILE Number of new words learned 1 You may now save the learned words if you wish You have the following options A to APPEND to existing auxiliary dictionary C to CREATE new file for learned words N to NOT SAVE new words 16 Enter A C or N a a append file name on next line Name of existing auxiliary to append to auxdict txt CORRECT finished Final options D to delete bad word file B SHORT BWD E to exit to CPM Enter D or E d d delete the bad word file B SHORT BWD deleted CORRECT finished Final options D to delete bad word file B SHORT BWD E to exit to CPM Enter D or E e e exit back to CPM CORRECT exiting Corrected file is B SHORT TXT 17 6 0 Adding words to auxiliary dictionary Unlike the master dictionary an auxiliary dictionary is a normal text file just like your source documents Normally you will add words to an auxiliary dictionary at the end of a FIXUP session However any word processor or editor such as ED or WordStar used to create files checked by Correct It can a
19. ng file The message Number of different words found nnn Will also be printed The number tells you how many unique words in fact were contained in your document After the words are sorted CORRECT will check the master dictionary The message Checking master dictionary will be printed CORRECT first looks for the file DICT BIN contained on the currently logged disk If DICT BIN is not available on the current disk then drive A will be checked If it does not find DICT BIN on the currently logged drive or on drive A CORRECT will prompt with DICT BIN not found on A or currently logged drive Enter drive and name of master dictionary You may then specify a different drive for the dictionary disk Once the master dictionary has been found CORRECT seans it A series of periods will be displayed to indicate progress through the dictionary scan One period is displayed for each letter of the alphabet This phase will take about two minutes for a typical CPM system It will be much faster for systems with hard disks After the master dictionary has been scanned CORRECT then automatically looks for an auxiliary dictionary file called AUXDICT TXT An auxiliary dictionary is a normal ASCII text file containing words not found in the master dictionary The distribution copy of the Correct It disk has a sample AUXDICT TXT file containing the dot commands used by WordStar and you can Supply and update auxiliary dictionaries of your
20. nknown words 9 In this example 9 unknown words were detected by CORRECT Note occurrences of both the singular and plural of some words such as error and errors are counted only once See section 9 0 CORRECT will display a command menu and is then ready to accept command input Depending on what you want to do you may enter a command to carry out any of the options listed on the command menu The following command menu will be displayed on the screen Select any option t i l i i C Correct file MYFILE TXT i i Display unknown words on screen i i E Exit from CORRECT l 3 t I i Oro I i Save unknown words in file MYFILE BWD eee Enter Cy Dy Ey OF Si At this point you may enter any of the commands C D E or S All commands are terminated by a RETURN The most logical command to enter first is D display the unknown words on the sereen Depending on what unknown words CORRECT found you may then select any of the other options The options are explained in more detail in the following para graphs CORRECT will actually use the name of the file currently being checked wherever MYFILE TXT appears in the examples C Correct file MYFILE TXT The C command will automatically invoke FIXUP Using FIXUP is the easiest way to correct the spelling mistakes found by CORRECT How to use FIXUP is explained in section 4 0 of this manual When the C command is entered CORRECT first automat
21. ogram can be used to add or delete to the master dictionary There is also a file called EMPTYDIC BIN on the distribution disk which is a empty dictionary It can be used with DICTEDIT to build up a totally new master dictionary DICTEDIT is simple to use although is does require that there be room for the original DICT BIN and the updated copy plus any words added Before running DICTEDIT you should prepare a list of words that you wish to add or delete to the master dictionary This Will normally be your master auxiliary dictionary Start DICTEDIT by entering DICTEDIT after the CPM X gt prompt The program will first ask if you want to add or to delete words in the dictionary Answer A or D Then you will be prompted for the file name with the word list DICTEDIT will then read that word list The file may contain words of any size and in any order and duplicates will not hurt There may be at most about 4 000 words in the file however DICTEDIT then asks for the name of the new dictionary for Output You could answer with DICT NEW for example After that you will be prompted for the name of the old master dictionary This will usually be DICT BIN although it may be mounted on a different drive You will also be asked for the name of the new index file It is very important to keep track of which index file goes with which dictionary CORRECT and LOOKUP require the correct index file to look up words in the master dicti
22. omputer Correct It knows about the special format of WordStar files but it will also check any text source file with the words saved using the standard ASCII character set This is the standard format used by most other CPM word processors Correct It looks only at words in your file and ignores all Characters that are not letters Also upper and lower case are treated the same by Correct It Since every word processor handles hyphenation differently Correct It makes no assumptions about hyphenation and should be used before the document is hyphenated If a previously hyphenated document is checked by Correct It each half of a split word will be checked independently Correct It is easy to use You will find that even your largest documents can be completely checked by Correct It in less 4 minutes Shorter documents will take 2 to 3 minutes A typical Correct It session consists of the following steps 1 Find unknown words with CORRECT 2 Correct original document with FIXUP Correct It is completely menu driven After the file is checked by CORRECT the FIXUP phase may be automatically started with a simple menu choice Correct It is designed to work either from the NO FILES menu of WordStar or directly from the CPM command level If used from the CPM command level you may find it necessary to become familiar with the commands and utilities available with CPM You will find that the DIR and ERA commands will be useful when us
23. on the software Distribution Diskettes included with your Micro Decision and contains the following files CORRECT COM Correct It program This program is used to check your document for unknown words CORRECT uses DICT BIN DICT BIN The 36 000 word dictionary checked by Correct It Words in the dictionary have been compressed and the dictionary takes only about 100K bytes of disk space DICT BIN is used by CORRECT FIXUP and LOOKUP DINDEX BIN An index file to DICT BIN DINDEX is used by FIXUP and LOOKUP to know where to look in DICT BIN for words AUXDICT TXT A small sample auxiliary dictionary You may add to this dictionary or build up a completely new one of your own This auxiliary dictionary contains the dot commands used by WordStar FIXUP COM Program to interactively correct errors detected by Correct It Corrections are double checked for accuracy and you may interactively query the dictionary FIXUP uses DICT BIN and DINDEX BIN LOOKUP COM A utility program that allows you to use the dictionary in an interactive look up mode LOOKUP requires DICT BIN and DINDEX BIN DICTEDIT COM Program to update master dictionary Words may be added to or deleted from the master dictionary DICT BIN DICTEDIT also generated a new index file for the dictionary EMPTYDIC BIN Empty master dictionary for optional use with DICTEDIT Correct It has been especially designed to work with your Morrow Designs microc
24. onary After these file names are entered the program will update the dictionary and write the updated version the new index file There is little penalty for keeping your new words in an ascii auxiliary dictionary so it is not necessary to update the master dictionary often It is probably best to wait until you have a hundred words or so in your auxiliary dictionary You should keep track of what modifications you have made to the master dictionary By keeping the word files used to update the dictionary on a backup disk you will be able to later reverse the update process After updating the dictionary you should rename the new dictionary to DICT BIN so that it can be used by Correct It automatically 20 8 0 LOOKUP Utility LOOKUP is a utility program that allows you to interactively look up words in the dictionary Start LOOKUP by entering LOOKUP after the CPM prompt The program will then ask you for a word to lookup You may enter any word you wish and spell it as closely to correct as you are able LOOKUP will then search the dictionary using the word you supplied as a key Depending on how close of a match is found in the dictionary 10 to 20 surrounding words will be displayed A sample session with LOOKUP follows User input is underlined Notice that in the first example an exact spelling was used In the second only the first four letters of Albuquerque were needed to get the correct spelling displayed demonstrat
25. rect word prompt will follow The C eorrect option allows you to correct the word After you specify C you will be prompted for the replacement for the word The replacement should be exact including upper and lower case as needed You can replace run together words theonly with two separate words if needed the only The word may be deleted entirely by entering a RETURN only FIXUP will automatically look up the replacement word in the dictionary If the new word is not in the dictionary a message Will be displayed and you will be given three choices If you enter A the replacement will be accepted and FIXUP will continue checking the file If the replacement was incorrect you can enter c and you will be able to correct the word again You may also enter D to get dictionary help See the description of the poe command in the next paragraph for more details D Dictionary help Find a word in dictionary The D dictionary command allows you to interactively query the dictionary After you enter the D the current unknown word Will be displayed and you will be prompted If you then simple press the RETURN key the current unknown word well be used as a key for the dictionary lookup You may also enter any other word as a key FIXUP will then display several words nearest in spelling to the key word More details on looking up words are given in the description of LOOKUP in section 8 0 E Exit accept word and d
26. th your word processor or the CPM editor ED or create your own at the end of a FIXUP session 2 Use your master auxiliary dictionary whenever you use Correct It Always save the list of unknown words found by Correct It on a file The unknown word list will then only contain words that are not contained in either the master 36 000 word dictionary or in your auxiliary dictionary 3 Remove true mistakes from the unknown word list This can be with the learn command of FIXUP or by editing the unknown word list with your word processor or ED Be careful to remove all true mistakes and leave only correctly spelled words in the file At this point you will have only legitimate words not found in either the master or the auxiliary dictionary 4 Append the list of new words to the end of your master auxiliary dictionary The easiest way to do this is with the A option at the end of a FIXUP session You may also use PIP If the list of 18 new words was called NEWWORDS TXT PIP can be used to append the files PIP AUXDICT TXT AUXDICT TXT NEWWORDS TXT A helpful note if your auxiliary dictionary is less than 3000 words long you can uSe Correct It to check it This will produce a new unknown word file tnat will have all duplicates and words found in the master dictionary removed as well as being sorted alphabetically 19 7 0 Updating master dictionary The distribution disk contains a program called DICTEDIT COM This pr
27. the source file Whenever an unknown word is found in the original document FIXUP pauses and displays the word The word will be contained in context on the previous line of the display with a immediately under the word on the display Following the error indication a command menu will be displayed For example 11 Sample line with oone spelling error Unknown word oone Word correction mode Options Accept word for rest of session don t learn Correct word prompt will follow Dictionary help Find a word in dtetisnary Exit accept word and discontinue checking Learn word for auxiliary dictionary One time acceptance of word O M m O oD l A C D E L O H for Help You may choose any of options listed The full menu is displayed automatically only after the first error When subsequent errors are detected FIXUP will display only the last prompt line Using the H command will cause the menu to be displayed All commands must be terminated with the RETURN key A Accept word for rest of session don t learn The A accept option will cause the word to be accepted for the remainder of the FIXUP session This option is most useful for Specialized words contained in one document that you do not want to add to the auxiliary dictionary but which may appear again in the Same document After you specify A FIXUP will ignore any more occurrences of that word in the document C Cor
28. ze of the unknown word list 22 INDEX accept word FIXUP 13 accept word one time FIXUP 14 auxiliary dictionary 3 7 14 18 backing up 5 bwd file 9 case 3 18 22 checking file 6 checking time 4 7 command menu CORRECT 8 command menu FIXUP 12 correct word FIXUP 13 CORRECT COM 3 correcting 9 12 default FIXUP files 11 deleting bad word file 14 DICTEDIT utility 3 display words 9 distribution package 3 5 double checking corrections 13 exit FIXUP 14 exit CORRECT 9 fixing up 9 FIXUP 3 8 10 hyphenation 4 index directory 3 learn word FIXUP 14 LOOKUP 3 21 marking document 12 master dictionary 3 7 18 22 no plurals 22 one letter words 22 organizing files 5 plurals 22 Sample session 15 Save words 9 technical notes 22 unique words 7 update master dict 20 word sizes 18 words 3 WordStar 3 6
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