| Name | Extracted | Size | Date | Description |
| 1001TOPS.ZIP | Yes | 75117 | 4/12/1994 | 1001 Topics for Composition helps you select a topic about which to write from a list of 1358 topics arranged in 21 major categories. It is intended for students who are searching for a topic for composition. The topics are suitable for many different types of writing (i.e. journals, essays, research papers, free writing, compare and contrast, argumentative, process, description, etc.). (Richard Raker) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| ADDRSIT.ZIP | Yes | 86224 | 4/12/1994 | Address-It is a TSR envelope print program. It takes 8k of DOS RAM and has many features. You can capture an address from the screen, edit or change it, and print the envelope while running your word processor, editor, or any program. It can also read and print a set of addresses from a file. It supports five standard and one user-specified envelope sizes, up to eight fonts for selection at print time, any 80 column display, and parallel ports LPT1-3 and serial ports COM1-4. Address-IT has two related utilities with it: DWNLD.EXE is a download utility program that includes in the display of available download files, all of the data necessary to customize Address-IT font selection for any non-standard font (the built-in selection lists include the printer built-in fonts, HP standard SoftFonts and many of the popular Bitstream fonts). It will also download a portrait font file as landscape font. CONVPL is a program that creates a landscape download font file from a portrait font file. (Vision Unlimited) (Reg.Fee: $17) |
| ADRSNVL.ZIP | Yes | 20553 | 5/29/1989 | Adrsnvlp 1.0 addresses envelopes and labels captured from database programs. Options include the ability to indent, space, center, justify. Epson compatible printer required. (Dr. Masaaki Sawada) (Reg.Fee: $10-$20) |
| AVSCRIPT.ZIP | Yes | 79127 | 4/12/1994 | AVscripter prints two-column audio/visual scripts. That is, the output is in two columns on the page with the action (video) in one column and the corresponding sound/script in the other column. You can also generate scene lists and logs sorted alphabetically conforming to the first video line in each numbered scene. (Tom Schroeppel) (Reg.Fee: $40) |
| BAFGAB.ZIP | Yes | 333627 | 2/3/1995 | BaffleGab generates ornate text to help spice up your writing. You simply type in a noun and it will come up with a phrase very likely to send the reader scurrying for their dictionary. Features include clipboard support, an on-board dictionary, and more. (Six 'S' Software, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $13) |
| BEST156.ZIP | Yes | 217917 | 2/10/1995 | BesThes 1.56 is an electronic thesaurus. It may be used as a stand-alone application or with a word processor. It has 16,520 entries with an average of 185 related words per entry. Two vocabulary enrichment modules enable you to extend the vocabulary to 28,635 entries with an average of 210 related words per entry. It is loadable into high memory and usable from within the wordprocessor or as a stand alone application. (Noah Nissani) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $30) |
| BETR_BIZ.ZIP | Yes | 127869 | 4/15/1994 | Better Business prints out a variety of business letters. There are 40 letters topics such as past-due payments, bad absentee record, laying off an employee, canceling an order, replying to credit queries, billing errors, complaints, thank-you notes and more. Letters can be printed and filled in by hand or filled in on screen using a text editor. (McMData Systems) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| BONUSFRM.ZIP | Yes | 171605 | 11/8/1993 | 120+ BASIC & BONUS Forms Pack is a collection of forms designed for use with EZ-Forms Plus, EZ-Forms Executive, or EZ-Forms DataBase. There are forms for sales, banking, business planning, schools, and more. (Ed Marion) (Reg.Fee: $56-61) |
| BUDDY.ZIP | Yes | 133786 | 4/16/1994 | Buddy 1.2 is a tutorial on writing technique. It consists of eight lessons on language, spelling and punctuation. An Artificial Intelligence program is used to teach the lessons, so you can ask the program questions and get an answer back or just trade insults if you are feeling frisky. (Hale Chatfield) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| C_CHAOS.ZIP | Yes | 32671 | 3/12/1980 | Creative Chaos 2.1 pulls together pieces of text from script files in a controlled but randomized way, leading to unpredictable and potentially interesting results. It can be used to break through writer's block to get ideas for a story or even to generate lottery numbers or create "interesting" menus. (Evan Lunde) (Reg.Fee: $12) |
| CCHECK.ZIP | Yes | 135617 | 4/4/1994 | Cross Check is a fast spelling checker with a well-designed interactive mode in which you can page/scroll up and down the list of misspelled words. Options allow you to view words in context, replace words in the file, and add words to the dictionary. The non-interactive mode sends a list of misspelled words to a text file. Utilities let you convert the dictionary file to a plain text file for easy modification and convert text files back to the dictionary file format. Another utility makes it easy to delete files from the dictionary without doing a conversion, and of course words can be added in the interactive mode. CC allows a general dictionary plus additional specialized dictionaries. This allows you to minimize the number of words that CC has to check against when you are dealing with special types of documents. Although the general dictionary that comes on the disk only has 16,000, we do not consider this a serious limitation because it is easy to add lists of words. (Cross Computing Incorporated) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| CDIARY.ZIP | Yes | 215952 | 1/4/1994 | Cumberland Diary 1.3 makes it easy to keep a diary. Entries can be printed singly, in groups, as a book, or imported into Cumberland Story. Searches may be made by date or heading. Each entry can be up to nearly 7000 words. Security options include password protection and data file encryption. Requires a hard disk and at least 450k of free RAM. (Ira J. Lund) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $24) |
| CLICH17B.ZIP | Yes | 203022 | 11/28/1994 | Cliche Finder 1.7b is a writer's tool that helps avoid the use of trite and overused words and phrases. It checks a document for the presence of any of several hundred cliches. This program has the option to create text file with cliches marked. Progress is displayed on screen as a document is checked. The user can interrupt the procedure. It comes with a utility program that allows you to edit the cliche list. Requires 360K RAM. (Rosemary K. West) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| COUNT.ZIP | Yes | 8007 | 6/22/1989 | Count (JW) counts words and lines in a text line. What makes this one interesting is that you can tell it a series of files to sum using DOS wildcards or naming the files individually on the command line. So if your book, for example, is broken into files by chapter, you can easily get a total count of words and lines in all the chapters. An optional switch lets COUNT ignore blank lines. (Jon Wind) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CRITIC.ZIP | Yes | 37634 | 4/4/1994 | Critic 2.3 is a writing analysis program. It creates a copy of your text file with comments embedded, pointing out long sentences, words that are repeated too close together (eg: "I really think you really ought to..."), words that are generally overused, split infinitives, and many other grammar errors. At the end of the file is placed a word-frequency chart, a word-length chart, a count of words in the file, and a sentence length chart. Another chart compares your writing to that of Hemingway, Steinbeck, Stephen King, Byte, and Time magazines. Also included is a Readability chart with tips for improvement. There is even a punctuation analysis. Overall, we think this is the best shareware writing analyzer we have seen and that it is modestly priced at its $10 shareware registration fee. (James Wygant) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| CROATIAN.ZIP | Yes | 316326 | 9/23/1994 | Word Translator Croatian Edition 3.52 is a pop-up English-Croatian-English translator and dictionary. It features bilingual spell checking, grammar help, word-by-word document translation inside your text based word processor. Requires 1MB of disk space. (N. Koncar) (Reg.Fee: $70) |
| CSPS.ZIP | Yes | 124728 | 2/25/1994 | Poetry Star 1.1 is a poetry writing aid which will allow you to enter question, comments, and observations. The program will then attempt to give a response to what you've entered. These responses may be useful for generating ideas for poetry and prose. (Hale Chatfield) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| DANISH.ZIP | Yes | 256590 | 9/23/1994 | Word Translator Danish Edition 3.52 is a pop-up English-Danish-English translator and dictionary. It features bilingual spell checking and word-by-word document translation inside your text based word processor. This edition contains 10,000+ English to Danish translations. Requires 1MB of disk space. (N. Koncar) (Reg.Fee: $70) |
| DOCL11.ZIP | Yes | 12467 | 1/12/1994 | Document Cleaner 1.1 converts word processor files into ASCII files by converting tab characters into spaces, stripping out non-text control characters, adding hard carriage returns, and adding margins. (David Leithauser) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| DOSPELL.ZIP | Yes | 509908 | 3/22/1994 | DO-Spell 3.72c is an English and Dutch spelling checker. It comes with a 60,000-word list in English, a 54,744-word list in Dutch, and a 3000-word list in German (this comes to us from The Netherlands). As a 116k TSR, it can easily be used in conjunction with any editor or word processor. It works simply by reading the screen and highlighting words not in it the selected word list, which it does very quickly. (Han Kleijn) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| DRFORM.ZIP | Yes | 391826 | 1/18/1995 | Dr. Form 3.2 creates professional quality forms. It generates forms with up to 63 rows by 136 columns. Features include mouse support, automatic grid maker, line drawing, manual and automatic time and date stamp, label printing, and the ability to create master forms and fill them in, print on pre-printed forms, and create templates. Requires 512K. (Russ Irwin) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $43) |
| ECPG314.ZIP | Yes | 326016 | 11/20/1994 | ECPage Design & Print 3.14 allows you to design pages and forms using the scalable proportional fonts in the Hewlett Packard LaserJet 3, 4L or 4. You can create boxes with plain or shaded borders, place horizontal and vertical lines in the document, and create designs. This method allows you to maintain an inventory of pre-printed forms. Requires 5 MB of hard drive space and EGA or better. NEW: improved settings for basic defaults, a switch for toggling between normal edit and qwik modes. (David Erickson) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| EF12.ZIP | Yes | 112176 | 8/10/1993 | EasyFold 1.2 is a combination text editor and outliner. As you type, you can press a key to "fold" a section of text up so that only the first line shows. Menu options as well as folding/unfolding can be executed quickly with a mouse or keyboard. Professional features of the editor include macros (for keyboard and mouse), undo's, edit up to 250 files at once, splitscreen editing, search-and-replace, and SVGA support. (Michael Reiss) (Reg.Fee: $49) |
| EFTT1.ZIP | Yes | 245907 | 4/2/1994 | English-French Translator Traveler translates English to French. It recognizes idiomatic and polite words. It conforms to French grammar and punctuation. It contains over 40,000 root words, a built-in 12,000+ verb conjugator a French word processor, and international measurement conversion. It is compatible with PC-Write, and Microsoft Word. Requires 1.5Mb of disk space and DOS 3+. (Softechnics, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $107) |
| EFTT2.ZIP | Yes | 348646 | 4/2/1994 | See EFTT1.ZIP |
| ENG_JAP.ZIP | Yes | 369263 | 4/11/1994 | English-Japanese Dictionary 1.4 is an English-Japanese (kana & kanji) translator. You type in the word or phrase you need in English and the program displays the Japanese equivalent in kana and kanji. Requires the ability to read at least hiragana and katakana. (Jim Breen) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| EZCOUNT.ZIP | Yes | 19153 | 6/22/1989 | EzCount is a fast, accurate, flexible, fully-documented word counter you can use on Wordstar 3.XX and ASCII files. (Don and Sharyn Conkey) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| EZDBASE.ZIP | Yes | 386750 | 11/8/1993 | EZ-Forms' Database 4.04b is a data management and forms processing program. It can also be used as an inexpensive fill-only module for EZ-FORMS. It will let you create a database from an existing form. Features include automatic indexing, multiple indexes, merge/append additional files, keyboard macros, repeat keys, on-line manual, quick reports, labels, query, seek, find, and browse modes, unlimited relational look-ups, and field calculations. Other features include an integrated EZFX form editor; the ability to export with selectable fields; maximum form dimensions of up to 396 lines and 256 columns; database and form fields of up to 1000; and a lockout feature to prevent unauthorized users from creating/modifying forms and database structures. Requires a hard disk. (Ed Marion) (Reg.Fee: $156) |
| EZDEX13.ZIP | Yes | 37812 | 4/15/1994 | EZ-Dex 1.3 is a 10K TSR which automatically types names and addresses into running word processors, or other text oriented programs, upon user command. It also prints labels and envelopes directly and dials phone numbers. (Hank Krejci) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| EZFX401C.ZIP | Yes | 337590 | 11/8/1993 | EZ-Forms Executive 4.01c lets you design and fill in forms on-screen. A Fill-Out-Only mode is included so users can't alter pre-designed master forms. Forms can be up to 999 lines long or 254 columns wide. A simple pick menu is provided for installing over 500 common printer types, and laser support is provided. Forms can be saved to disk. (Ed Marion) (Reg.Fee: $136) |
| F_L.ZIP | Yes | 273160 | 4/16/1994 | F & L 1.0 are pre-formatted templates for writing business/legal forms and letters. Templates are provided in WinWord, WordPerfect, Works and ASCII formats that can be modified to fit your needs. Forms are included for Agreement to Sell Business, Bill of Sale, Business Lease, Car Bill of Sale, Contract/Agreement, Contractor's Estimate Sheet, Debt Compromise, General Power of Attorney, General Release, Installment Note, Loan Purpose Affidavit, Release of Lien, Simple Partnership Agreement, Trade Name Affidavit, UCC Security Agreement and Will. Letters are included for After an Appointment, Asking for Credit, Business Service, Collection Letters and Notice, Commercial Credit Request, Delayed Shipment, Employee Warning, Firm Offer to Buy, Follow-up Sales Letter, Interest in a Project, New Business Announcement, New Client, Order Acknowledgment, Price Increase, Referral Request, Response to Info Request, Sales Inquiry Response, Referral Request, and Why Aren't You Buying?. (David A. Works) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $33-$40) |
| FACECC.ZIP | Yes | 368181 | 3/8/1994 | Correspondence Master 1.0 will help you keep track of letters, comments, and reports. You can also maintain a history of correspondence and attach information to each letter. Requires a hard drive with at least 2MB of disk space. (FACE Systems) (Reg.Fee: $30) |
| FED111JH.ZIP | Yes | 104706 | 12/14/1994 | Forms Editor (JH) 1.11 is a forms editor and printer. It uses standard ASCII text files as forms with underlines as input fields. You can fill out forms, save them with or without fields, set defaults and print them. Forms can be up to 800 lines long and up to 80 characters wide, with 2000 input fields. Mouse support included. (Jim Hass) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $17) |
| FILE_IT.ZIP | Yes | 17347 | 6/22/1989 | File-It is a quick-reference bibliographic tool which maintains and retrieves an indexed database for you. (Chip Rabinowitz) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| FOGFINDR.ZIP | Yes | 15164 | 4/4/1994 | FogFin is a program based on the Gunning Fog Index. A Fog Index is a measure of what people consider easy reading. It doesn't measure whether the writing is good, bad, clear, or muddy. However, it will measure whether the writing will tire the reader because of the way the words and sentences are assembled. (Joey Robichaux) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| FORMFILL.ZIP | Yes | 187130 | 4/6/1994 | FormFill lets you fill in on-screen forms created with Formgen. (Randy MacLean) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $25-$35) |
| FORMGBIZ.ZIP | Yes | 36868 | 4/6/1994 | FormGen: Business Forms is a collection of over 70 predesigned business forms including Purchase Orders, Invoices, Expense Forms, Accounting Forms, Inventory, Applications, and Work Orders. You can use them as-is or quickly customize them to your own specific needs with FormGen. You can also use FormFill to fill in the forms on-line. (Reg.Fee: $0; FormG) |
| FORMGEN.ZIP | Yes | 302899 | 4/6/1994 | Formgen is a powerful, yet easy-to-use program for creating forms. See FormFill for filling in Formgen forms on-screen. (Randy MacLean) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $129) |
| FORMGHOM.ZIP | Yes | 26516 | 4/6/1994 | FormGen: Home Forms is a collection of 50 forms designed for home use including score sheets, floor plans, maps, schedules, calendars, and tax planning. (Randy MacLean) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| FORMGMED.ZIP | Yes | 19485 | 4/15/1994 | FormGen Medical Forms is a collection of over 30 commonly used medical forms for use with FormGen II and FormFill. Included are standard insurance, operating schedule, temperature chart, on-call doctor log forms, as well as lab test forms. (Randy MacLean) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| FRENCH.ZIP | Yes | 160380 | 9/23/1994 | Word Translator French Edition 3.52 is a pop-up English-French-English translator and dictionary. Requires 1MB of disk space. (N. Koncar) (Reg.Fee: $40) |
| GDSP22.ZIP | Yes | 415714 | 5/24/1994 | GDSpell 2.2a is an ASCII file spell checker. It includes a very fast RAM dictionary for quick lookup of about 10000 common words, and a disk based dictionary of another 50000 less common words. You can also build an AUXI dictionary of words you commonly use. (G.D. Davis) (Reg.Fee: $30) |
| GERMAN.ZIP | Yes | 298328 | 9/23/1994 | German Vocabulary Drill 1.0 is a German vocabulary driller.The program also has back-ground music and sound effects. (Barry A. Traver) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| GRAMMAR.ZIP | Yes | 38525 | 1/12/1994 | Grammar Online! 1.01 is a 116k TSR grammar aid which can be used with most word processing programs as a pop-up menu. It will provide assistance on the proper use of commas, punctuation, sentence structure, etc. (Roberts & Richards, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| IBID20.ZIP | Yes | 162859 | 12/8/1994 | Ibid for Windows 2.0 allows you to create a list of words and their associated meanings. Requires VBRUN300. (Peter Neuendoreffer) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| IDEATREE.ZIP | Yes | 329479 | 4/4/1994 | Idea Tree is a non-resident thought processor or outliner that uses a tree or "organization chart" type of approach rather than the usual "outline" look. Personally, we think that the standard outline approach is more compact and easier to grasp at a glance, but Idea Tree is easy to use and has a very professional look to it. "Pull-down" menus at the top of the screen means that you can use the program almost without looking at the on-disk documentation. You can use Idea Tree as a business tool as well. You can record customers by products with names, address, phone numbers and a brief commentary, make organization charts with descriptions and assignments, and develop project schedules. Other features include a word processor, output preview, a composition organizing system, and more. (Mountain House Publishing, Inc) (Reg.Fee: $69) |
| INDEX.ZIP | Yes | 11876 | 6/22/1989 | Index! 2.0 is a powerful automatic indexing utility for Ventura Publisher. This menu driven program lets you enter terms to index in a database, then searches up to 100 chapters at a time. It then builds and inserts the index codes Ventura needs. Other features include index preview options, automatic file selection, an index code stripper, DOS shell, editable help screens, and more. If you have ever had to build an index for a major product in Ventura, you will recognize that this program will pay for itself the first time you use it. (Trinity Communications) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $79) |
| INVENT.ZIP | Yes | 27804 | 6/22/1989 | Invent 2.1 helps writers invent fresh metaphors. It prompts the user to supply nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. It randomly scrambles the entries to provide novel arrangements. In testing it did display a list of metaphors, but it ended with an error message. (Louie Crew) (Reg.Fee: $7) |
| JORJ_O.ZIP | Yes | 717091 | 6/7/1993 | JORJ is a 58,000-word dictionary on a disk. It is a quick and easy way to check the spelling or meaning of a word. You can enter a word the way it sounds and JORJ will locate the actual spelling. Also included are Postal state abbreviations, weights and measures, and foreign words and phrases. The program uses EMS/XMS to minimize the use of DOS RAM. (Jorj Software Co.) (Reg.Fee: $30) |
| JSPEL2.ZIP | Yes | 220743 | 6/13/1994 | JSpell 2.04 is a spelling checker. Features include fast and intelligent suggestions for misspelled words, dictionary manager, undo up to 400 steps, multiple user dictionaries, file specific dictionary, network support, foreign character support, and more. (Joohee Jeong) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $31) |
| JUSTIFY.ZIP | Yes | 14574 | 3/11/1994 | Justify 1.0 will reformat ASCII text files by changing the line length. It will ignore titles and other header information and reformat paragraphs to any desired style. C source code is included. (Tom Almy) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| KAMAS.ZIP | Yes | 117705 | 4/4/1994 | Kamas is an outline processor. Kamasoft claims to have originated the genre in 1984. Our highly subjective opinion is that Kamas is a hair less intuitive, less slick and less powerful than other outliners we have seen, such as PC-Outline. On the other hand, it costs about 10 times less and does do a reasonable job for a low-end outliner. As best as we were able to determine from the limited documentation, it will not function as a TSR (pop-up), but with the growing popularity of task switching programs such as SwapDOS and DESQview, any program can be made into a "pop-up" whether it was written that way or not. (Kamasoft) (Reg.Fee: $39) |
| LASERLTR.ZIP | Yes | 811233 | 10/18/1993 | Laser Letterhead Plus 3.5 will print letterhead stationary and envelopes on an HP LaserJet. A letterhead can be designed for personal or business use in three basic styles with 10 variations. You can select lines, boxes, and shading, using whatever cartridge fonts or soft fonts you have available and prefer. A logo, slogan, and watermark may be added anywhere on the page. You can design an "Only Logo" letter head, which may be comprised of a PCX image. Images and text may be placed using inches or centimeters. Your word processor may be placed on the Main Menu and you may run it from inside Laser Letterhead Plus. Envelopes can be automatically printed in a matching style. Business standard, legal, or executive size paper can be used along with business, monarch, or personal size envelopes. A dBase compatible address database lets you easily address envelopes or export a list to most major word processors for mail merge. A built-in memory manager utilizes extended and/or expanded memory efficiently. (Consultant Pharmacist Services) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| LCNT.ZIP | Yes | 5171 | 3/10/1991 | LCNT 3.0 is a very fast line counter for small to very large files. LCNT uses the linefeed character to identify line terminations, rather than the usual carriage return, which provides a more accurate count with some word processors' files. (Bob Eyer) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| LEGALDIC.ZIP | Yes | 107172 | 4/4/1994 | Legal Dictionary is a list of words peculiar to the legal profession. This is NOT a program. It is simply a list of words in straight ASCII text for importing into a spelling checker such as Cross Check. (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| LEGALDOC.ZIP | Yes | 63552 | 1/12/1980 | LegalDoc contains over 100 different legal documents that any business could use, from leasing or purchasing equipment, assignments of lien, power of attorney, promissory notes, zoning requests, many letters and much more. (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| LETTERS.ZIP | Yes | 283276 | 4/12/1994 | Form Letters is a compilation of almost 600 different types of form letters that any business or individual could use. (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| LGL_EAGL.ZIP | Yes | 274175 | 4/15/1994 | Legal Eagle 2.0 allows you to print out a variety of legal forms, including promissary notes, power of attorney, wills, bill of sale, leases, stocks, loans, goods and services, employment, meetings, trusts, and much more. Forms can be printed and filled in by hand or filled in on screen using a text editor. A dictionary of legal terms is included. Requires 512k RAM, 600k of disk space. (McMData Systems) (Reg.Fee: $30) |
| LOG21.ZIP | Yes | 173519 | 8/31/1993 | Daily Log Book 2.1 is a diary with pull-down menus, column marking, macros, cut and paste editing, and password protection. It also includes a calendar which will let you view one or six months and show what days have entries. (John Haynes) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $18) |
| MFA.ZIP | Yes | 42820 | 6/19/1990 | Micro Flowchart Aid 1.0 is a text based program that will help you organize thoughts and ideas in the form of a flowchart. The work space consists of six cells across and 99 down. Any of 30 different symbols and lines can be entered into a cell at the press of a key. Text can then be added to the symbols, such as inside a decision box. (Wayne-Tech Software) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| MW120.EXE | No | 345202 | 6/25/1991 | MultiWord is a thesaurus that can operate as a stand-alone or as a 28k TSR, pop-up program. MultiWord has over 9000 main entries with over 60,000 synonyms. When you select a word it will automatically feed it back to the program you are using. (Peter Moreton) (Reg.Fee: $24-$95) |
| MY_AGENT.ZIP | Yes | 398826 | 4/5/1994 | My_Agent is a tool for the professional writer for keeping track of publishers and manuscripts, printing manuscripts with various types of page headings, and printing form letters to publishers. (Louie Crew) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| ODAY430.ZIP | Yes | 371515 | 10/27/1994 | OMNIDay 4.30 lets you create your own personal electronic diary. Up to ten different users can access the program. Passwords protect individual privacy. Entries can be up to 5000 lines, with word wrap and scrolling, and common word processor commands. You can easily page through entries and print the entire diary or selected dates. (Charles P. Schell) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $30) |
| ORADIC1.ZIP | Yes | 176279 | 7/12/1994 | Orator UK Dictionary contains the UK Spelling dictionary for Orator version 2.00. (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| ORADIC2.ZIP | Yes | 179301 | 7/12/1994 | Orator US Dictionary contains the US Spelling dictionary for Orator version 2.00. (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| OUTLINE.ZIP | Yes | 108649 | 4/4/1994 | PC-Outline is an outlining program that can be used in resident or non-memory-resident modes. While originally designed for writers to use in outlining ideas, it can actually be used as a kind of free-form database program. After storing information about a subject, you can hide the information so that only the subject line remains visible. This way you can see several topics at once and view the next level of only the one(s) you choose. If you are writing, you can export the finished outline to your word processor. If you have never tried an outlining program before, you really ought to give this a try. In the resident mode, it uses a minimum of 80k of RAM. (Brown Bag Software) (Reg.Fee: $195) |
| OUTLINEP.ZIP | Yes | 121065 | 4/14/1994 | OutlinePlus makes the creation and management of outlines and other structured text easy. It has built-in decimal and classical labeling notation that automatically adjusts to changes in the structure. It feels like a text editor with such features as full screen and file navigation; the ability to delete and restore text; search and replace; the ability to reformat paragraphs and the document; definable margins and more. Files are saved as ASCII text. Data can be imported and exported. We found the program to be intuitive and easy to use. (David E. Toliver) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| PCFORMS1.ZIP | Yes | 215568 | 1/20/1995 | PC-Forms 6.31 is a document assembly system for business and legal documents. It allows you to assemble business and legal documents and create, maintain and print text libraries. Completed documents are loaded into WordStar, WordPerfect, MS- Word, VDE, PC-Write, FriendlyWriter or other word processors, when linked with the system. (William W. Blackledge) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $35) |
| PCPROOF.ZIP | Yes | 390134 | 10/27/1993 | PC-Proof 2.0a is a grammar checker which can detect dropped words, extra words, words which have been misspelled into another word and other common errors such as subject/verb agreement and missing punctuation. The program highlights the sentence that contains the suspected error and displays a detailed explanation and some advice. It allows you to write the incorrect sentence and an explanation of the error to a problem report file, edit the incorrect sentence, add a comment about the error, or ignore the problem from now on. You also have the option to proofread the entire document without stopping and all sentences with suspected errors will be written to the problem report file. This option allows you to do something else while your document is being proofread. PC-Proof can read files created by WordPerfect, Microsoft Word for DOS, Microsoft Word for Windows, Microsoft Works, Professional Write and other formats which are mostly ASCII text. Requires 850K of disk space. (Franklin Hu) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $40) |
| PHRASEWA.ZIP | Yes | 22278 | 4/4/1994 | Phrase Watcher 2.4 finds all sentences in a document containing bad or wordy phrases and suggests possible improvements. (George Yee) (Reg.Fee: $8) |
| POEMPAD.ZIP | Yes | 70614 | 7/17/1991 | Poem NotePad 2.3 allows you to keep track of, review, modify, and print your poetry. A text editor and a document generator are included. (U.S.D., Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $30) |
| POET24A.ZIP | Yes | 315760 | 1/28/1994 | Poetry Generator 2.4a creates poems from a vocabulary of thousands of phrases and several different formats which are randomly chosen and combined by the program. For the most part, the words are organized into short phrases which are then combined into poems of four to twelve lines. The underlying structures of most of the poems are based on the author's original work. Personalized poems can be produced. (Rosemary K. West) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $10-$15) |
| POET24B.ZIP | Yes | 197604 | 1/28/1994 | See POET24A.ZIP |
| POETRIO.ZIP | Yes | 125830 | 4/10/1994 | PoeTrio instructs you on writing poetry in free verse, syllabics and cantona. Each style is taught with a separate program that has an editor included for writing your own verses. (Hale Chatfield) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| POPSAUR.ZIP | Yes | 297092 | 4/3/1994 | PopSaurus is a pop-up thesaurus. It can operate as a 10K TSR or stand-alone program. It has 8,282 entry points into 70,793 words. (Acropolis Software) (Reg.Fee: $18) |
| PORTU.ZIP | Yes | 150870 | 9/26/1994 | Word Translator Portuguese Edition 3.52 is a pop-up English-Portuguese-English translator and dictionary. Requires 1MB of disk space. (N. Koncar) (Reg.Fee: $70) |
| PROPOSIT.ZIP | Yes | 107943 | 4/16/1994 | Propose It! 2.0 contains templates for writing business proposals. Templates are supplied in pre-formatted ASCII, WP 5.1, and MS Works 2.0 format. (David A. Works) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $25-$28) |
| PROSCRIB.ZIP | Yes | 131376 | 4/4/1994 | Professional Scribe analyzes your writing style. Maxi-Read thinks the sentences in our newsletters are too long and that many of the words are too long. Here are some of the words it thought were too long: library, consider, example, newsletter, imagine, anymore, everyone, already, directory... excuse me, am I going too fast for the dullards in the audience? ...f-o-r-m-a-t, s-p-e-c-i-f-y... well, you get the idea. PS checks your writing for five categories of writing mistakes: wasted words, misused words, tongue waggers, nouns-to-verbs and passive voice. You can customize PS to eliminate your own pet pieces of jargon you want to avoid. Support for WP 5.0 and MS Word files is provided and an on-line thesaurus and a second program to help you customize your thesaurus are also included. A line-by-line analysis of what's on the screen, and a running grade level analysis give you even more feedback on your writing. (Rob W. Smetana) (Reg.Fee: $43) |
| QUICKIE.ZIP | Yes | 22732 | 6/22/1989 | Quickie 3.24 is targeted at business users, students, government offices, anyone who has to compile reports from more that one document. It lets the user page through multiple files and mark text excerpts for retention in an output file, which can then be imported using a word processor or editor. It can read pure ASCII files with lines terminated by carriage returns, Wang WP, pfs:Write, Wordstar, and OfficeWriter 5.0 document formats with no external translation. Also the output file can be stored in a form with hard carriage returns only at the end of paragraphs for easier importing and reformatting in various word processors. (Fred Pruitt) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| QUIKLTR.ZIP | Yes | 67930 | 5/26/1990 | QuickLetter 2.1 makes it easy to send the occasional form letter to someone. Using the built-in editor, you can create a form letter with name, address and any other variables you want built in. When you are ready to send a form, you select the form you want loaded; the program prompts you for data for each of the variables; and creates a letter with the data inserted in it. It appears that only one variable is allowed per line. While this works like a mail-merge program, it actually competes with forms management software. It is fast and easy to use for its intended purpose. (Timothy Gregory) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| READ_GS.ZIP | Yes | 15954 | 4/4/1994 | Read21 calculates (for your writings) Flesch readability scores which are purportedly more reliable than the "Fog Index". READ will read WordPerfect and WordStar files without converting. (Glenn Spiegel) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| READABIL.ZIP | Yes | 171965 | 4/13/1994 | Readability Plus analyzes your writing on the basis of a sophisticated language analysis system that identifies sentences that aren't appropriate for particular kinds of writing. It assumes that what you've written is mechanically correct. Rather than look for errors, it looks for sentences and words that aren't appropriate for your intended audience and purpose. Compare your text to any of the nine writing style models provided with the program. The program directly reads documents created with WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, WordStar, and WordStar 2000. It can also read any ASCII text file. It generates four readability indices: the Flesch-Kincaid Index, the Flesch Reading Ease Index, Gunning's Fog Index, and LIX (the technical name for RIX). (Scandinavian PC Systems) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| READRITE.ZIP | Yes | 40078 | 4/4/1994 | ReadRite 1.41 is a memory-resident program that determines the Flesch readability score of text that is on your monitor screen, either the whole screen or a marked block. While we have other programs for checking completed files, this one lets you check your work as you go. It also counts the words on the screen. res:7k (Peter Petrakis) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| REFLIST.ZIP | Yes | 43408 | 4/12/1994 | Reflist allows you to create reference lists for scientific and technical manuscripts. (E.J. Shillitoe) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| RHYME.ZIP | Yes | 282336 | 10/24/1994 | Relor Rhyming Dictionary 1.0 will display words that rhyme with the word you type. (Doyle Bare) (ASP) |
| RUSSIAN.ZIP | Yes | 393378 | 9/23/1994 | Word Translator Russian Edition 3.52 is a pop-up English-Russian-English translator and dictionary. Requires 1MB of disk space. (N. Koncar) (Reg.Fee: $70) |
| SHRSPELL.ZIP | Yes | 240136 | 1/9/1995 | ShareSpell 3.02 is a stand-alone spelling checker with a 112,000+ word dictionary to which you can add more words. It displays the text of the file it is checking as it checks it so that you can see the context at all times. It displays a list of possible corrections when it finds a word not in its dictionary. The program can handle words longer than 20 characters. Interestingly, it will display multiple words where appropriate. For example, when we tested it on a Reviews file, it came across the program name GRADESCAN, one of its alternative choices was GRADE SCAN -- two legitimate words when not run together. Unlike CROSS CHECK, ShareSpell does not support a second specialized dictionary file nor does it allow importing word lists, but its dictionary is several times larger than Cross Check's. NEW: network friendly, supports batch processing and includes a special OCR suggestion option. (Acropolis Software) (Reg.Fee: $23) |
| SPANISH.ZIP | Yes | 211909 | 9/26/1994 | Word Translator Spanish Edition 3.52 is a pop-up English-Spanish-English translator and dictionary. Requires 1MB of disk space. (N. Koncar) (Reg.Fee: $70) |
| SPELCHEK.ZIP | Yes | 372999 | 4/10/1994 | SpelChek is a high speed, batch-oriented spelling checker. It writes any words not found in the dictionary to an output file. TP6 and TASM source code is included. (Edwin T. Floyd) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SPELLR.ZIP | Yes | 73476 | 4/4/1994 | SpellR 2.0 will check the spelling of any straight text document. It will then create a file with all of the words not found in its 40,000-word dictionary. The use can also specify an additional file of words to check the text file against. The output file format is well suited to being processed by the BRIEF editor, but BRIEF is not required. (JeWeL Software) (Reg.Fee: $30) |
| SPELRITE.ZIP | Yes | 132968 | 4/15/1994 | SpellRite is a spelling assistance program. It brings up a large list of words that you can easily scroll or search through. A 31K TSR version and a non-resident version of the program are provided. (JMA Software) (Reg.Fee: $32) |
| SPRGLOSS.ZIP | Yes | 184723 | 10/20/1994 | Super Glossary 4.7 is a glossary of 10,000+ abbreviations used in computer science, business, accounting, law, medicine, sports, and more. (Lexikon Services) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| STYLED.ZIP | Yes | 87450 | 4/4/1994 | Styled is a writing analysis program. It reports on "long words" (over 10 characters), punctuation, syntax and "nominalization". If you don't know what the latter is, you probably don't want to know. The program is not judgmental. It reports its analysis and leaves it up to you how to use the information. (Louie Crew) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| THELMA.ZIP | Yes | 560483 | 5/6/1994 | Thelma Thistelblossom's Grammar 5.2 is a grammar and writing style checker for WordPerfect. The program highlights the problem in its context and provides advise on how to fix it. It looks for passive voice, long sentences subject verb agreement, possessive pronouns, cliches, punctuations, and spelling. Thelma is based on an 85,000 word dictionary. Requires a hard disk. (Douglas Campbell) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $29) |
| THESPLS.ZIP | Yes | 310022 | 7/14/1992 | Thesaur Plus is a memory resident thesaurus. By using EMS or disk swapping, it uses only 24k of DOS RAM. It contains over 50,000 words, plus the ability to add and delete any synonym. A non-TSR version is included. (D. Burgess) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| THOTPLN.ZIP | Yes | 61654 | 5/29/1989 | ThotPlnr is for brainstorming and outline generating. It will allow you to record ideas and group similar ideas under major categories, assign priority in outline form, and realign them according to the perspective in which you wish to consider them. (THOTSystems, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $30) |
| TT52.ZIP | Yes | 560445 | 4/5/1994 | Thelma's GrammarPlus 5.2 checks any text file or file created by a word processor for misspelled words and grammatical errors. It uses pattern-matching and an extensive dictionary to find and display possible errors, along with an explanation, and gives suggestions for corrections. (Douglas Campbell) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $29) |
| TTC18.ZIP | Yes | 184676 | 1/4/1994 | Thelma's ClichePlus 1.8 will search any file created by a word processor for cliches, idioms, and too many or too few spaces at the end of sentences. When a problem is found, it will be highlighted, along with an explanation, and suggestions will be made to correct it. (Douglas Campbell) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $9) |
| TTS11.ZIP | Yes | 838739 | 1/17/1994 | Thelma's SpellPlus 1.1 will check any file created by a word processor for proper grammar and spelling. It can also check for informal language, slang expressions, offensive words, and more. (Douglas Campbell) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $29) |
| WJ11.ZIP | Yes | 190048 | 3/18/1994 | WordJournal 1.1 helps you manage many separate journals. It may be used for personal diaries, research notebooks and meeting minutes. It features an easy to use word processor and password protection. (Brett Burgeson) (Reg.Fee: $23) |
| WORDFRE.ZIP | Yes | 29400 | 6/22/1989 | WordFreq charts the usage of different length words in a specified text file. (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| WORDS.ZIP | Yes | 6499 | 4/22/1988 | Words generates an alphabetical listing of words in a file along with the number of times each word was used. (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| WORDSEF.ZIP | Yes | 15459 | 3/30/1990 | Words (ETF) is a fast word extractor program. It will extract a list of unique "words" from an input file, or several input files, and writes them to an output file, one per line. The program recognizes a number of options for: Set operations on multiple files, case sensitivity, high-order bit stripping, alphabetic output sort, and defining the characters comprising a "word". Possible uses for such a utility could be to create a word list file for a spelling checker or to create a list of variable names used in a program, (Edwin T. Floyd) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| WORDZ.ZIP | Yes | 170381 | 4/14/1994 | WordZ is a blank book that you fill in with anything you wish to keep track of such as your personal history. It handles up to 10 chapters, with separate PassCodes for each. It offers encryption and multi-user support. You can print all or part of the book and "thumb" through entries. (Charles P. Schell) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| WP_ASCII.ZIP | Yes | 23154 | 3/1/1990 | WP_ASCII converts a wordprocessor document to an ASCII format. The wordprocessors supported are WordPerfect, WordStar, and Microsoft Word. (John R. Hidalgo) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| WRDQWIK.ZIP | Yes | 35584 | 7/6/1991 | WordQwik 1.11 tells you which of two or more similar words is correct. It can help you decide when to use "it's" or "its", "too" or "to", "imply" or "infer", etc. When you select a set of words from the list, definitions and illustrative sentences are provided. (When we quit the program, the screen colors were set to black on black. You will have to blindly enter "MODE 80" to restore white on black.) (Abraxas Research Service) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| WSTYLE.ZIP | Yes | 99778 | 6/22/1994 | WStyle 1.16 examines your writing for redundant words, wordy phrases, and inappropriate sentence structure; analyzes your writing style and provides statistics that specify where your writing is poor and where it is strong. (Reg.Fee: $29) |
| XYPOWER.ZIP | Yes | 112790 | 4/14/1994 | XyPower Add-Ins for XyWrite includes add-ins for XyWrite III+ 3.55 or later. It includes a shell program that allows point and shoot file maintenance from within XyWrite; a search utility that turns any text file into a data base; a utility that captures and restores information about all the files currently open in all the windows and allows you to return to every file; keyboard shortcuts and several other utilities. Requires a hard disk. (Timothy J. Baehr) (Reg.Fee: $40) |