Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!homxb!homxc!gauss
From: gauss@homxc.UUCP (E.GAUSS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Thesaurus, anyone?
Message-ID: <3677@homxc.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 88 19:12:28 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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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
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