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WORDSMRT.DOC Documentation for WordSmart (WSM.EXE), a file-reformatting utility Version: 1.2 August 3, 1993 WORDSMART and its documentation are Copyright 1992, 1993 by: Lambert Klein P.O. Box 611 Wayne MI 48184-0611 Voice telephone: (313) 326-1583 Fax: 313-467-8070 GEnie: L.Klein1 CompuServe: 72010,624 Internet: 72010.624@compuserve.com AOL: LKlein3990 Member, Association of Shareware Professionals ======================================================= ┌─────────┐ ┌─────┴───┐ │ (R) ──│ │o │────────────────── │ ┌─────┴╨──┐ │ Association of │ │ │─┘ Shareware └───│ o │ Professionals ──────│ ║ │──────────────────── └────╨────┘ MEMBER "This program is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road Muskegon MI 49442 or send a Compuserve message via easyplex to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536." ============================================================ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ TABLE OF CONTENTS: │ └──────────────────────┘ WordSmart is Shareware ...... page 3 Thanks ...................... page 3 Purpose of WordSmart ........ page 4 Features of WordSmart ....... page 4 Running WordSmart ........... page 5 Basic program syntax ........ page 5 Program options ............. page 7 Options summary ............. page 8 Options in detail ........... page 8 Left margin ......... page 8 Right margin ........ page 9 Removing all EOLs within paragraphs ... page 11 Preventing reformatting page 12 What happens during -R processing ....... page 13 Write output file ... page 14 Over-write existing file ................ page 15 Remove form-feeds ... page 16 Remove multiple spaces page 16 Print registration ... page 16 Remove blank lines (reg) .. page 17 Quiet processing (reg) .... page 17 Piping and redirection ...... page 18 Errorlevels ................. page 20 Example bat file ............ page 20 Registration benefits ....... page 21 page 3 WordSmart is shareware. If you try it out, find it useful, and go on using it - please register it. Registration is only $14.00. plus $4.00 shipping and handling. I hope you find WordSmart useful. If you have any comments, suggestions, bug reports, and so on, please send them to me at the address shown above. See the file PROGRAMS.TXT, also in the archive WORDSMRT.ZIP, for information on my other shareware, including PrintPlus, my menu-driven dot-matrix printer control program. -- Lambert Klein ============================================================ Any registered or trademarked product names mentioned in this documentation are the property of their respective owners or publishers. ============================================================ ╓┬───────────┬╖ ║│ THANKS: │║ ╙┴───────────┴╜ I would like to thank Mike Arst for his continuous testing and debugging of WordSmart. There have been many hours of testing and coding put into WordSmart. Thanks goes to the Writer of WordSmart's documentation, who also happens to be Mike Arst! page 4 ╓┬────────────┐ ║│ PURPOSE │ ╙┴────────────┘ WordSmart, written entirely in assembly language, is a fast reformatter for text files. For instance, WordSmart can increase the line length of text files created with relatively short lines, perhaps (as with this file) because the writer assumed you'd be using a typical dot- matrix printer setup. But if you are using compressed mode for printing, you might prefer wider lines. WordSmart helps with this by automatically increasing line lengths for you (or decreasing them - your choice); you won't have to do so manually in a text editor or word processor. FEATURES IN BOTH REGISTERED AND UNREGISTERED VERSIONS OF WORDSMART o Accepts input in the form of a source file whose name you specify on the command line, or accepts input from "standard input" (i.e., via a "pipe"). o Writes an output file whose name you specify on the command line; otherwise, writes to "standard output," allowing you to redirect the results of processing to a file name or else "pipe" the output to some other program. o Can over-write an existing file at your option o Adds to or removes spaces at the left sides of lines. o Changes the lengths of lines (from 10 characters wide up to 60,000 characters wide). Can be used to remove "hard" line breaks within paragraphs completely, preserving the paragraph-endings themselves. o Removes form-feed characters. o Reduces runs of multiple spaces to a single space. o Returns errorlevels, useful when WordSmart is run from batch files. o Removes blank lines from files. ADDITIONAL FEATURES AVAILABLE ONLY IN THE REGISTERED VERSION o "Quiet" mode - no screen display during processing The program will usually be referred to hereafter in the documentation simply as "WSM." page 5 ╓┬─────────────────┐ ║│ RUNNING WSM.EXE │ ╙┴─────────────────┘ WSM can read past an EOF character (Control-Z) and will treat it as if it were an ordinary character. WSM also treats a NULL (with a decimal value of 0) no differently from any other character. Limitations: Line-ending characters: WSM cannot process files with Unix-style line endings (line feeds only), nor those with Mac-style line endings (carriage returns only). The files must have standard DOS line endings (carriage return plus line feed). Types of input files: WSM is intended for use only with plain- text files, not files saved in the "document" format of programs like WordStar, Microsoft Word, or WordPerfect. Using WSM to alter such files will probably make them unreadable by the word processing programs that created them. ╓┬──────────────────────┐ ║│ BASIC PROGRAM SYNTAX │ ╙┴──────────────────────┘ Typing WSM alone at the DOS prompt brings up a help-screen containing a summary of the command-line options and information about the exit codes (errorlevels) WSM returns. Typical command line: WSM input [options] > output Where: input is the name of the file you want to process; [options] are one or more of the command-line options (switches) discussed below; and > output is an optional command whereby you use DOS redirection to create an output file. NOTE: THE NAME OF THE FILE TO BE USED FOR INPUT MUST BE THE FIRST PARAMETER ON THE COMMAND LINE. If you do not put the input file name first, WordSmart will display an error message ("source path error"), and it will halt without doing any further work. The input file name CANNOT contain the DOS wildcards "*" or "?". page 6 Other ways to write the command line: WSM input [options] | another_program In this kind of command, you use a "pipe" to send WSM's output not to a file, but to some other program ("another_program" in the above example) that can read from "standard input." This also works: another_program | WSM [options] > output In this case, you pipe some other program's output to WSM. Note that in this case, you do NOT give WSM the name of an input file. You could use WSM's "write output file" option (see below) or use "> output." NOTE: There are some risks to be aware of when using redirection to write output files. They will be discussed in greater detail in the section called "Piping and output redirection." A WSM command line that does not contain a "write output to file..." command forces the results of processing to be sent only to "standard output" - to the screen. You can use this to preview the results of processing and without first having to write an output file. If you use a program like LIST.COM (a shareware file viewer by Vernon Buerg), you can pipe output from WSM.EXE to LIST, thus: WSM input [switches] | list /s (LIST's "/s" option is required when it is receiving input via "pipe" like that.) page 7 ╓┬─────────────────┐ ║│ PROGRAM OPTIONS │ ╙┴─────────────────┘ WordSmart's functions are all invoked with command-line "switches." Each "switch" is a hyphen, followed by a single letter (with no space between the hyphen and the letter). The case of the letter is unimportant. Both of the following are "legal" forms of the "-B" switch: -b -B Some switches require additional information, which will be referred to hereafter as an "argument." For example, -W tells WSM to write an output file; the output file name argument follows the -W. You can either add or omit a space between a switch and its argument. Both of the following are legal ways to add the output file name argument to the "-w" switch: -Woutput -W output There are two possible switch characters: the hyphen and the forward slash. Either -W or /W would work for the switch used to specify the output file name. All of the following are "legal" ways of writing that switch (the file name argument is represented by the word "output"): -woutput -w output /woutput /w output -Woutput -W output /Woutput /W output page 8 ╓┬──────────────────────╖ ║│ OPTIONS - SUMMARIZED ║ ╙┴──────────────────────╜ Switch Purpose -L Specify the left margin; must be followed by a number indicating the number of spaces to add at the left margin. -R Specify the right margin; must be followed by a number indicating the maximum line width. -W Write output file; must be followed by the name of the file to write. -O Over-write an existing file without query. This option takes no arguments. -F Remove form-feed characters. This option takes no arguments. -S Remove runs of multiple spaces, reducing the string of spaces to one space only. This option takes no arguments. -I Send a WordSmart registration form directly to the printer. This option takes no arguments. -B Removes all blank lines past one. -B0 removes all. -Q "Quiet" mode - no screen display at all during or after processing. This option takes no arguments. AVAILABLE ONLY IN THE REGISTERED VERSION. ╓┬───────────────────────────────┐ ║│ OPTIONS - DESCRIBED IN DETAIL │ ╙┴───────────────────────────────┘ ┌────────────────────────────────┐ │ -L ADD SPACES TO LEFT MARGIN │ └────────────────────────────────┘ "-L" is always followed by a two- or three-digit number indicating the number of spaces to add at the left of each line of the input file. Example: -L5 would add 5 spaces to the beginning of each line. If the file has no left-margin indents at all, the command -L5 would put the first NON-space character on each line in column 6. page 9 If there are already spaces at the start of a line, the -L command adds the additional spaces to them. For example, a file whose lines are already indented by two spaces would be indented by seven spaces after you'd used -L5. In the present version of WSM, the -L command does not REMOVE spaces from the left margin. Thus, -L0 has no meaning. (Removal of spaces from the left margin is being considered for a future version of WordSmart.) Example - if this is a line in the input file: Here is a test line ... it looks this way after processing via -L5: Here is a test line The first non-space character ("H") is now at column 6. CAUTION: Numbers higher than 200, used with the -L switch, might cause corruption in or truncation of the output file. ┌───────────────────────┐ │ -R NEW RIGHT MARGIN │ └───────────────────────┘ -R is followed by a number 2 to 5 digits long, indicating a new line width (the number cannot exceed 60000). The number does not necessarily mean how many characters long the line will be; it is an "absolute" setting, indicating the right-most COLUMN NUMBER past which a line must break to a new line. (There's more information later in this documentation concerning exactly how WSM makes line-ending decisions). For instance, if the input file has no left-margin indents at all, and if you use the -R switch with an argument of 50, the widest possible output line will be 50 characters long. On the other hand, if you were to use these commands: -L10 -R50 ... then WSM would add 10 spaces to the left margin and re- format lines out to column 50 (maximum). In that case, there would be a maximum of 40 characters on each line, NOT including the spaces added at the beginning of the line. page 10 Example - lines that break at column 25: This is an example of lines that don't extend past column 25. The goal is to re-break them with the command -R45 so that they break at column 45. After processing with the command -R45: This is an example of lines that don't extend past column 25. The goal is to re-break them with the command -R45 so that they break at column 45. A nonsensical command like -L40 -R30 would, if taken literally, add 40 spaces to the start of each line but then try to break all lines at column 30. If you give WSM an instruction like that, it ignores the left-margin command entirely and takes only the right- margin command into account. If you use an argument less than 10, -R defaults to a value of 10. (There is one notable exception; -R0. See "Removing All Line Breaks Within Paragraphs," below.) If you have a text file in which each paragraph is a single long line, use -R plus a two-digit argument (80 or below) if you want to make the file more easily readable on-screen. But note: If there are NO blank lines in such a file, and if none of the lines is indented, processing it with WSM.EXE will cause the entire file to be treated as a single paragraph, and you'll lose all paragraph breaks. The solution would be to add blank lines between paragraphs and then process the file with WSM. Where processing begins and ends: For WordSmart's purposes, a paragraph is one or more lines with at least one blank line above and below it (them). If a line appears blank but contains spaces, WSM still treats it as a blank line. The reason is that, before processing begins, WSM removes any spaces at the right side of a line - "trailing spaces" - if they are the last characters before the line boundary. (Thus, a line containing only spaces has all of its spaces removed before processing begins.) page 11 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ REMOVING ALL LINE BREAKS WITHIN PARAGRAPHS │ └────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Omitting the -R switch entirely from the WordSmart command line, OR using the command -R0 (zero), tells WSM to remove ALL line endings within paragraphs in the input file. Using -R0 (or no -R command at all) is a quick way to turn each paragraph of the input file into a single long line (see below for exceptions, however). This is useful if you will import the text file into a desktop publishing (DTP) program. You almost always want a DTP program to make its own line-ending decisions, but its ability to do so is always defeated by "hard" line breaks within paragraphs. In the ideal situation, each paragraph is a single long line, and the only "hard" line breaks in the file are those at the very ends of the paragraphs. -R0 (or no -R at all) will preserve the FINAL line boundary of each paragraph, AS LONG AS THERE IS AT LEAST ONE BLANK LINE ABOVE AND BELOW EACH PARAGRAPH. Example: Suppose the input file looks like this: Line one. Line two. Line three. Line four. Line five. Line six. Result of processing the file with -R0 (or no -R command at all): Line one. Line two. Line three. Line four. Line five. Line six. page 12 ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ PREVENTING REFORMATTING │ └─────────────────────────┘ If, while re-breaking lines in a file, WSM encounters a line that is already indented from the left margin - using either spaces or Tab characters - it will not move any part of that line up to the previous line. This is a handy way to prevent reformatting of certain lines. Suppose the input file looks like this: Line one. Line two. Line three. Line four. Line five. Line six. Line seven. Line eight. Line nine. Result of processing the file with -R0 (or no -R command): Line one. Line two. Line three. Line four. Line five. Line six. Line seven. Line eight. Line nine. When WSM changes the line length, no part of an already-indented line will be merged with the one ABOVE it. However, it might be merged with any NON-INDENTED line BELOW it (whether the latter occurs depends on the argument to the -R switch - if you have used -R at all). Try a few experiments to get a feel for how line-width reformatting (and exceptions thereto) works. page 13 ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ WHAT HAPPENS DURING "-R" PROCESSING │ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ First, the program strips trailing spaces from all lines. Then WSM breaks lines at a space or a hyphen. It NEVER breaks up a word unless the word already contains a hyphen. Space permitting on a given line, it leaves the part of the word to the left of the hyphen, and the hyphen itself, on the line and brings the part of the word to the right of the hyphen down to the next line. This line: I won't look the same, post-processing, eh? ... might look like this after WSM finishes with it: I won't look the same, post- processing, eh? If there isn't room on the upper line for that part of the word (plus the hyphen itself), WSM brings the ENTIRE word down to the next line, thus: I won't look the same, post-processing, eh? Dashes: Hyphens sometimes appear in text files to indicate "long" dashes. WSM treats such character strings - like that -- (or that) differently from how it deals with hyphens in other situations. Suppose the input file contains a paragraph like this: Here are some lines -- Or: Here are some lines - not many -- with dashes. not many - with dashes. If you use WSM to increase the file's right margin, the above two lines might become: Here are a few lines -- not many -- containing dashes. Or: Here are a few lines - not many - containing dashes. WSM makes this kind of change whether or not there is a space (or more than one space) between the "dash" and the end of the line. The key here is that the "dash" must be PRECEDED by a space, which tells WSM that the hyphen is used as a "dash" and not to break a word. page 14 If "dashes"--(like these)--are NOT preceded by spaces, the results might not be just right in the output file. You might need to do a bit of editing afterward, removing a space WSM will sometimes add to the right of such "dashes" in the output file (if the double hyphen falls at the very end of a line in the input file). ┌────────────────────────┐ │ -W WRITE OUTPUT FILE │ └────────────────────────┘ The -W switch tells WordSmart to write an output file and requires a file name argument. Omitting the argument causes an error message to appear, and no processing occurs - except when you've "piped" some other program's output to WSM for use as its own input. (There's more information about that in the section below called "Piping and Output Redirection.") WSM will NEVER allow you to use the same file name for input and output when you use the -W switch. (But if you use redirection, all bets are off - see the piping/redirection information below for more about this.) The output file name can contain path information but CANNOT contain the DOS wildcards "*" or "?". If you specify a subdirectory that does not exist, WSM halts with an error message. (If you make that error when using the REGISTERED version and if you have used the -Q switch for "quiet" processing, WSM just beeps.) Example - to process an input file called INPUT.DOC and write an output file called OUTPUT.DOC: WSM input.doc -r50 -w output.doc Over-writing an existing output file or choosing a new name: If you are not using the -O switch, and if you specify an output file that now exists, WSM will beep, open a window on the screen announcing that the file exists, and ask you to make one of three choices: Select a new file name, over-write the existing file, or quit. Press "Q" or ESC to quit at once - no further action. Press "O" to over-write the existing file (unless it is write- protected). page 15 Press "N" to open a window in which you type a new file name. This also opens a window first containing the message "INSERT OFF." Pressing ENTER or ESC right away cancels the new-file-name prompt and tells WSM to quit without doing anything. Or type the new output file name (including path information, if need be) at the prompt, then press ENTER to continue processing. WSM then writes the output file. (If you decide to over-write the existing file after all, re-type its name at the new-file-name prompt. WSM presents the "over- write/new file name/quit" prompt again. Type "O" to over-write the file.) The new-output-name prompt supports a few simple editing keystrokes: The left- and right-arrow keys move the cursor back and forth across characters in the prompt line without erasing any characters. BACKSPACE erases the character to the left of the cursor. DEL erases the character underneath the cursor. Pressing INS toggles insert-mode on and off (and toggles the text in the smaller window from "INSERT OFF" to "INSERT ON" and back). With insert-mode ON, typing characters into the prompt line pushes any existing characters to the right; with insert-mode OFF, typing characters into the prompt over-strikes any characters now there. You can, initially, type file names much longer than the legal DOS limit. But if you do so, after you press ENTER, WSM will beep and inform you that you've typed an illegal file name. Press ENTER after reading this error message, and you'll be returned to the new-file-name prompt. The -W switch is one way to write an output file; using redirection is another. That method will be discussed shortly. ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ -O OVER-WRITE EXISTING FILE │ └───────────────────────────────┘ Use the -O switch (no arguments) to suppress WSM's query about over-writing an existing output file. Example: WSM input.doc -R50 -w output.doc -o The -O switch can appear anywhere to the right of the input file name, and you can use the switch (without causing an error message) whether or not the output file name already exists. page 16 ┌──────────────────────────────────┐ │ -F REMOVE FORM-FEED CHARACTERS │ └──────────────────────────────────┘ Use -F (no arguments) to remove printer form-feed (FF) characters (Control-L, decimal value, 12). If the FF character is by itself on a line, -F deletes the ENTIRE line (including line boundary). If the FF character appears at the start or end of a line containing other text, WSM will remove the FF itself but will not remove any other text on the line (aside from trailing spaces). ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │ -S REMOVE MULTIPLE SPACES │ └─────────────────────────────┘ Use -S (no arguments) to reduce strings of two or more spaces in a row to a single space. This is handy for removing, say, multiple spaces following punctuation. (Multiple spacing is not desirable if you're sending the text to a typesetting or DTP system.) -S is also handy for unjustifying text whose writer has used multiple spaces to left/right-justify the lines. -S always leaves a SINGLE space in place of the string of multiple spaces (including at the beginnings of lines that have been indented by two or more spaces; this version of WSM is not able to remove ALL spaces at the start of lines). ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐ │ -I PRINT REGISTRATION FORM/INVOICE │ └──────────────────────────────────────┘ The -I switch takes no arguments. Give the command: WSM -I to print a WordSmart registration form on your printer. Make sure the printer is on and ready before giving the command. WordSmart does not do a "printer-ready?" check before starting the print routine. -I works in both the registered and unregistered versions but is not noted in the registered version's help-screen. page 17 ╓╥────────────────────────────╖ ║║ -B REMOVE BLANK LINES - ║ ╙╨────────────────────────────╜ Use -B (no arguments) to remove all blank lines in the file past one, including lines that begin with spaces. -B0 removes all blank lines. NOTE: This command will NOT remove lines that begin with one or more tab characters but that are otherwise blank (i.e., they contain nothing other than tabs or spaces). But lines that begin with one or more spaces WILL be removed even if there are tabs after the spaces. ╓╥─────────────────────────────────────────────────────╖ ║║ -Q "QUIET" PROCESSING - *REGISTERED VERSION ONLY* ║ ╙╨─────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜ Use -Q (no arguments) to suppress all WordSmart screen displays. If there is any error during processing, you are alerted to the problem only via a beep. -Q is useful if you run WSM from batch files and want full control over the screen displays during execution of the batch files. In some situations, WSM will not beep if there is an error when you're using the -Q switch. But you can check for errors by testing for the exit code (errorlevel) WSM returns (errorlevels are discussed shortly). page 18 ╓┬───────────────────────────────┐ ║│ PIPING AND OUTPUT REDIRECTION │ ╙┴───────────────────────────────┘ WordSmart can take as input either a file whose name you specify on the command line, or the output of some other process - via "piping." Suppose you use an automated search/replace program called SR that can write to standard output or can read from standard input. Examples: SR command | WSM [options] Or: WSM [options] | SR command In the first case, you pipe the SR's output to WSM. In the second, you pipe WSM's output to SR. When you tell WSM to get its information from standard input, do NOT put the name of an input file into the WSM command line. Given a command like the following: another_program | WSM input.doc [options] ... WSM completely ignores the piped information and reads only INPUT.DOC, instead. Writing output files using redirection: You can use WSM's -W switch to write an output file, or you can use DOS redirection (">" and ">>"). Using ">" can be risky. Suppose you'd like to process the file INPUT.DOC and over-write it with the changed version - same file name - rather than write a new file. So you give this command: WSM input.doc [options] > input.doc Result: A file called INPUT.DOC that is only ZERO BYTES LONG. Definitely not what you wanted. Reason: DOS (not WSM) creates the zero-byte file. Then WSM reads the input file. But by that time, there isn't anything to read other than a zero-byte file! If you have only one copy of INPUT.DOC, you'll have lost it for good. page 19 Don't EVER try to over-write your existing file that way. Play it safe; process the file as follows: WSM input.doc [options] > output.doc I.e., use a different output file name (or forget redirection and use WordSmart's -W switch). The following sort of command is also risky: WSM [options] < input.doc > input.doc It might work well at some times, but destroy or corrupt your input file at other times. The following is much safer: WSM [options] < input.doc > output.doc The following doesn't work, either: WSM input.doc [options] -w output.doc > new.doc You think, perhaps, that you can create two identical output files at the same time - OUTPUT.DOC and NEW.DOC? Doesn't work. In that case, WSM writes OUTPUT.DOC and DOS itself writes a zero-byte file called NEW.DOC. Redirection and screen displays: When you use redirection, you don't give WSM.EXE enough information to create complete screen displays. If you pipe information to WSM, it doesn't display a proper input file name - because there isn't an input file to begin with. If you write an output file via redirection, the WSM screen display doesn't show any output file name. page 20 ╓┬─────────────┐ ║│ ERRORLEVELS │ ╙┴─────────────┘ WordSmart returns 7 different exit codes (errorlevels): Code Meaning 0 Processing was successful 1 "Read" error - couldn't find the specified input file. 2 Can't write the output file because you gave it the same name as the input file. (NOTE: Using output redirection completely defeats WordSmart's ability to check for that kind of error.) 3 Can't over-write the specified output file - it now exists (and you haven't used the -O switch). 4 Can't write the specified output file - you've given a drive and/or path name that doesn't exist. WSM also returns this errorlevel if you try to write an output file to a floppy drive that isn't ready, or to a write- protected disk. 5 Can't over-write the existing file because it's write- protected. 255 Returned if you type WSM without any command-line options at all. The errorlevels become most useful when you're running WSM from a batch file and are using the -Q ("quiet") switch, in which case there are no screen displays at all. See the file WORDSMRT.BAT for a simple example of checking for the return of errorlevels in a batch file. The batch file uses WSM's -Q switch, which will not function if you don't yet have the registered version of WSM; but you will still be able to see how the errorlevel-checking works. (The presence of -Q in the command line will not cause the unregistered version to return any error messages.) ╓┬───────────────────┐ ║│ ABOUT EXAMPLE.BAT │ ╙┴───────────────────┘ EXAMPLE.BAT, included in the WordSmart distribution archive, is a simple batch file that shows the results of processing using various -R commands. EXAMPLE.BAT uses the file you're reading right now (WORDSMRT.DOC) for input, and it writes an output file called XXXXXXX_._XX. Once you're done using EXAMPLE.BAT, be sure to delete XXXXXXX_._XX. page 21 Type EXAMPLE at the DOS prompt for information on the batch file's syntax. I hope you find WordSmart useful. I will greatly appreciate your registering it. -- Lambert Klein ┌┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────┬┐ ││ Documentation by Mike Arst, CompuServe 70403,1337 ││ └┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────┴┘ ┌┬────────────────────────┬┐ ││ REGISTRATION BENEFITS: ││ └┴────────────────────────┴┘ You have a 30-day evaluation period to try out WordSmart. After 30 days you must register WordSmart to legally continue its use. When you register WordSmart you receive the following: 1. A disk with the Registered version of WordSmart, branded with your name and serial number. 2. Other Shareware and Freeware. 3. A printed manual for WordSmart. 4. Voice, mail and Email support. 5. Any extra features that are added to WordSmart. This will include the the -Q switch for quiet screen during processing. 6. The great feeling of registering a high-caliber program at a very reasonable price! To print the registration form type WSM -I [Enter] at the Dos prompt. Thank you for your support! Lambert Klein PO Box 611 Wayne MI 48184-0611 You can register WordSmart on CompuServe also. Just "GO SWREG". Program Title: WordSmart Registration ID: 562