Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!crash!cacilj!close
From: close@cacilj.UUCP (Diane Barlow Close)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: spelling checker DA?
Message-ID: <894@cacilj.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 89 04:21:22 GMT
References: <8902101251.AA27825@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <828@a.lanl.gov>
Reply-To: close@cacilj.UUCP (Diane Barlow Close)
Distribution: na
Organization: CACI, Inc. - Federal, La Jolla, CA
Lines: 28

In article <828@a.lanl.gov> wxh@a.lanl.gov (Billy Harvey) writes:
>In article <8902101251.AA27825@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, TOXI_CE@HNYKUN51.BITNET writes:
>> I am looking for a spelling checker that will run as a desk accessory.
>
>I seem to remember a desk accessory called Thunder! which would do this.
>It would spell check on the fly, and beep when it found a misspelled word.
>
>I don't know if its available anymore or from where.  Anyone?

Batteries Included from Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada does indeed make/
market Thunder.  Thunder is a spelling program and DA, and a writing
statistics checker.  It is quite good.  

A company here in San Diego called Warner Engineering has bought up about
150 copies of Thunder (all they could get their hands on before it 
recently "disappeared" due to distributor problems) and they are selling it 
for about $30.

Warner's phone number is (619) 224-5090 and they are located on:
3545 Midway Dr., San Diego, CA.

I have a copy of Thunder, and I think it is great.

-- 
Diane Barlow Close
      {uunet, crash, ucsd}!cacilj!close
      close@cacilj.uucp
      Free Canada -- Trade Mulroney