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                       | SPELL 1.3 User's Guide |
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HOW TO USE THE SPELL PROGRAM:

SPELL is a program that allows you to detect and correct spelling mistakes
in disk files.  SPELL should work with files produced by just about any word
processor.  SPELL has been tested on files produced by the 1ST WORD
word processor.


THE WORD LIST:

SPELL uses a disk file named "words.txt".  This file contains all words that
SPELL recognizes as being correctly spelled.  When you start using SPELL, this
file will be empty, and SPELL will wonder if every word in your document is
misspelled.  As you check the spelling of more and more files, SPELL will know
about more and more words.  Eventually SPELL will have a dictionary containing
most of the words that you use, and will only ask you if misspelled and
unfamiliar words are misspelled.


RUNNING THE PROGRAM:

When the program is first run, the file "words.txt" is created on the default
disk.  Make sure that SPELL has write access to the disk on which SPELL is
stored.

Then all words stored in the file "words.txt" are loaded into memory.  If SPELL
is being run for the first time, no words will be loaded.

Now you are asked for the name of the file for which the spelling is to be
corrected.  Enter the filename that you want checked.  SPELL must have write
access to this file.

After the file to be spelled is specified, whenever SPELL encounters a word
that is not in the file words.txt, you may:

  (1) correct the spelling of the word
  (2) add the word to the dictionary

To correct the spelling of the word, type in the word as you would like it
to appear in the document being checked.

If the word is correctly spelled, or if you've just corrected it, then you may
want to insert it into the dictionary.  To add the word to the dictionary,
place the mouse in the appropriate box and press the left mouse button.  When
you add a word to the dictionary, whenever SPELL sees that word again, it will
know that it is correctly spelled, and will not ask you about it.


UPDATING THE DICTIONARY:

Why do you need to update the dictionary?  Well, every time you start the
program, the dictionary contains all the words that were in the file
"words.txt".  As you insert new words into the dictionary they are stored
in your computer's main memory, and are NOT placed in the disk file
"words.txt".

If you choose to update the dictionary by pressing the left mouse button
in the "yes" box, the new words in main memory will be inserted into the
file "words.txt".  When the program is done, "words.txt" will contain all the
words it had before running SPELL, and also the new ones you inserted.
When you run SPELL again, it will know that the new words are correct, and
and will not ask you about them when it encounters them.

If you choose not to update the dictionary by pressing the left mouse button
in the "no" box, the file "words.txt" will not be changed - it will have
the same words that it had when you started running SPELL, and will not have
the new words that you inserted when SPELL was running.


FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like more information about SPELL, please send a stamped,
self-addressed envelope to the following address:

Eric Bergman-Terrell
Cadenza Software, Ltd.
1704 Imperial Ridge
Las Cruces, NM  88001
USA

If you are outside the United States, please enclose sufficient international
reply coupons (available at post offices throughout the world).