Timothy.Allen@dartmouth.edu (Timothy Allen) (05/17/91)
I offer the following tip to users of WriteNow 2.2 and System 7: The wordmaster thesaurus DA that comes with WriteNow doesn't work by itself. However, if you load the DA (with font/DA mover under system 6.x, use the option key when clicking the open button, or use ResEdit to copy all the wordmaster's resources into WriteNow) into the writenow application instead of the system file, you can get the thesaurus to work in system 7! It will show up under the apple menu only when writenow is the frontmost application. A similar trick may work with other DAs that cause problems. You might also be interested to know that the thesaurus file itself does not have to be in the system folder - it can be anywhere. If it is not in the system folder when you start the wordmaster DA, you'll get a Standard File dialog box asking you to show it where the thesaurus file is. as they say, "system 7 rules!" tim.allen@dartmouth.edu