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Article #823RE: WordFinder for Word 5.0 (MSWD 4.0?)
From: Pedro A. Lopez-Valencia
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 23:42
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 23:42
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WordFinder used to be bundled with all releases of Word 4.0x. It has never being released with Word 5.xy. If you want to use it you need to obtain one off two things: 1. Obtain Font/DA Mover version 4.1 from ftp.apple.com (or bric-a-brac.apple.com) if your DNS server does not recognize the first address, which I doubt). Sorry but I do not remember the path. If you want to be nice please use a gopher client to browse their directories. It is under /dts/something somebody out there might be able to pint you to the right location there. One single catch. Apple will not accept an FTP connection from a machine without a DNS name, forget plain IP addresses so most desktop computers with direct internet access are useless. Use a UN*X box instead. You can also get it from a user group. The procedure should be straight forward. Just press the option key before clicking the open... button. 2. Use ResEdit or Resourcerer or something like that (all warnings and gipsy damnations appropiate come here ;->). Patch *a* working copy of Word 5.xy with WordFinder. If you use a resource editor, copy *only* the drv resource (the one with the suitcase icon in ResEdit, just in case my memory fails). F/DA Mover takes care of that itself. And Voila! There you have WordFinder working within Word. Nevertheless take note that it may not work. There are anough code differences between Word 4.0x and 5.xy as to make WordFinder incompatible. If you can not live with Word's thesaurus, very decent BTW, buy a big one: WordMaster, WordFinder Pro or Big Thesaurus (I use the latter, and sometimes I still go back to Word's internal Thes.). Good luck.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78a4,5e423a46b3aa073e,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf78a4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-09-29 12:58:00 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!parsifal.umkc.edu!NewsWatcher!user Newsgroups: bit.mailserv.word-mac Subject: RE: WordFinder for Word 5.0 (MSWD 4.0?) Message-ID: <palopez-260993174216@134.124.1.47> From: palopez@joline.umsl.edu (Pedro A. Lopez-Valencia) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 17:42:16 -0600 Followup-To: bit.mailserv.word-mac Organization: Universitty of Missouri-St. Louis NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.124.1.47 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 31