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From: sun060@Lovelacecd.uakron.edu (Howard Lymor)
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Subject: Re: Thesaurus (was Spell Checker).
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Date: 15 Sep 90 20:54:21 GMT
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In article <26F23587.1291@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>,
riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes:
|> >In article <4cca39d9.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> esteban@apollo.HP.COM
(Steven Fernandez) writes:
|> >>
|> >>Can anybody recommend a good shareware Spelling Checker?
|> >>
|> 
|> How about a thesaurus?  I use WordPerfect, but find the thesaurus
very weak, 
|> compared to those available in book form  (such as Roget's). 
Actually I would
|> also be interested in commercial versions...   Carl Riehm.

If a thesaurus is what you're looking for (and a spell checker, albeit
not
shareware), check out Turbo Lighting (I think it's from Borland).  It
has a
large and a small dictionary file because it's a TSR.  When I was using
it,
I found it to be faster than most of the integrated spelling checkers/
thesauruses (or is it thesauri) on the market (I now do most of my wp
in
Windows 3.0 or on a, dare I say it here, MacIntosh).  It also supports
user dictionaries and thesauri (sp?, I wish it ran under Unix).  

Anyway, it's quick, pretty comprehensive, and as I remember, relatively
inexpensive.  It's worth a look.

Howard Lymor
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