Date : Thu, 25 Nov 1982 11:03:00-EST
From : Charles L Jackson <CLJ@Mit-Mc>
Subject: Random House Thesarus
This product, advertised in Byte, is excellent -- at least based on a
week's experience.
It is a thesarus which can be accessed directly
or from inside Wordstar! It's extremely fast (for a
floppy disc/z80). Much faster in the look-up mode than The Word, for example.
It allows one to put the cursor on a word,
hit escape twice, and quickly see the thesarus entry
for that word. You can then select a word from the
thesarus list, it will move the selected word into
your text and drop the original word. It gets capitalization right most
of the time.
Two problems.
Price $150 which is reasonable.
It uses about 200k of disk space.
If you write a lot in wordstar, it's a very handy
tool.
Regards
Clj
Ps it's avaliable from Dictronics -- I don't have their address here I'll
post it to the net saturday.