gauss@homxc.UUCP (E.GAUSS) (10/04/88)
I am looking for a thesaurus that can run stand alone, and not hopelessly imbedded within a word processor. Alternatively I would like to buy the data base for a thesaurus. This curious situation came about because I wrote a series of filters to work with the vi editor and lets me do all of the word processing I need. I use a speller, Microspell, which is a stand alone. My balk at the big wordprocessors and their thesaruses is not the cost but rather I really don't want to learn a new system. I automatically hit the right buttons in vi. My combination of vi and my filters runs nicely on both the big Unix hosts and my little PC6300. Does anyone make a thesaurus that runs as a stand alone? Thanks in advance. Ed Gauss ...att!homxc!gauss
elt@entire.UUCP (Edward L. Taychert) (10/04/88)
I'm using Webster's New Word On-Line Thesaurus. I got it out of the junk box at a computer store for $25. I don't know its retail price. Its a TSR that you can configure to work with your editor or you can press its hot key and type in a work. Its interactive, won't work in a batch mode. I like it a lot, only problem is that it blinks too much when its popped up on the screen. -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Ed Taychert Phone: USA (716) 381-7500 Entire Inc. UUCP: rochester!rocksanne!entire!elt 445 E. Commercial Street East Rochester, N.Y. 14445 _____________________________________________________________________________
rk@cs.strath.ac.uk (Richard Kingslake) (10/05/88)
Borland's Turbo-lightning is both an excellent stand-alone spelling checker and a superb thesaurus. Actually, I do not use the spelling checker much since the word-processor I use has one, but the thesaurus is indispensible. -- Richard Kingslake JANET: rk@uk.ac.strath.cs ARPA: rk@cs.strath.ac.uk UUCP: !seismo!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!rk or rk@strath-cs.uucp
gauss@homxc.UUCP (E.GAUSS) (10/07/88)
I would like to thank the 20+ people who answered my query, article <3677@homxc.UUCP>, gauss@homxc.UUCP (E.GAUSS) where I was looking for a thesaurus. Turbo Lightning was recommended by many. But as the local Dalton book store had Webster's NewWorld that would work with my copy of VI, that is what I got. It seems to work. Thanks gang, for the help! Ed Gauss