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From: mms@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (John J. Chew III)
Date: Thu, 4-Feb-88 23:18:34 EST
Message-ID: <1988Feb4.231834.1915@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: The Poslfit Committee
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Something that does fast expansion of text abbreviations?
Summary: Thunder, originally by Batteries Included
References: <592@gucis.oz> <6340015@nucsrl.UUCP> <1302@daimi.UUCP>
Sender: poslfit@gpu.utcs.UUCP (John J. Chew III)
Reply-To: poslfit@gpu.utcs.UUCP (John J. Chew III)

In reply to Derek Austin (derek@gucis.oz) as quoted by others:
| Does anyone know of either a similar DA or a word processor that will let
| you type  in an abbreviation that will be automatically expanded as soon as 
| you type white space? 

I'd recommend Thunder, originally put out by Batteries Included but
now distributed by some company in the United States whose name I
don't have handy.  It's a desk accessory that spell-checks, does
primitive text analysis and abbreviation expansion.  

It's the only spelling checker I have that operates fully
interactively (set it going, type away and it beeps whenever
you make a mistake) as well as in batch mode.  The abbreviation
expansion feature works just as you described, and includes a
few canned abbreviations that enter the current date or time.
Abbreviation data is stored in a pure text file, though additions
can be made to it at any time without invoking an editor.

(Disclaimer: I've always wanted to be able to disclaim something,
and now here it is, my big chance... I have nothing whatsoever to
do with Batteries Included, which is out of business now anyhow,
except that I drove past where they used to be today, and I once
bought a serial card from a subsidiary of theirs that isn't in
business either, and oh yes, I got a free copy of their Thunder
DA a while ago.  wow.)

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