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DESCRIPTION OF FILES
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INFO.TXT Info about joining the national organization and about
Internet Scrabble (tm).
HISTORY.TXT History of the Scrabble (tm) board game & about
computerized versions of same.
WANNABE.WDS Words that never made it into the OSPD (tm), but should
have (and might still, in a later edition).
EXTRACT.DOC How to use the EXTRACT program.
WORD4DAY.DOC How to use the WORD FOR THE DAY program.
MUSINGS.TXT Musings on letter distribution, rack balance, and
related topics.
EXTRACT.EXE Program to extract words containing letter combos
from word lists. [A slightly faster, updated version
of this utility is found in the WORDY package by the
same author.]
WORD4DAY.EXE Word for the day program. Selects a random word from
the unusual.lst file. Can be set up to automatically
give you the "word for the day" each time the computer
is powered up.
2PLUS1.WDS List of all valid "2 plus 1" combinations.
2LETTERS.LST List of all valid 2-letter words.
3LETTERS.LST List of all valid 3-letter words.
UNUSUAL.LST List of 5800+ unusual words that are valid plays.
Includes all words new to OSPD3 (tm), final edition.
RE.LST List of re- prefixed words.
UN.LST List of un- prefixed words.
IN.LST List of in- prefixed words.
J.LST List of words containing J
Q.LST List of words containing Q
X.LST List of words containing X
Z.LST List of words containing Z
Q_NOT_U.LST List of words containing Q, but not U.
XZJKQ.LST List of words containing at least 2 letters from the
set XZJKQ.
VOWEL.DMP List of "vowel dumps", words with 70% or more vowels.
CONSON.DMP List of "consonant dumps", 72% or more consonants.
CONSON.4 List of words containing string of 4 or more
consecutive consonants.
CONSON.5 List of words containing string of 5 or more
consecutive consonants.
NOVOWEL.LST List of words containing no vowels.
BINGOS.TXT List of Bingos to be made from common letter combos.
OSPD2.NEW List of words added to 2nd edition of the OSPD (tm)
OSPD3.NEW List of words added to 3rd edition of the OSPD (tm)
REMOVED.WOR List of words that "disappeared" between editions of
the OSPD (tm).
PALINDR.OME List of all (4-letter or more) palindromes in OSPD3.
DROME.PAL List of all (4-letter or more) words in OSPD3 that,
when reversed, form other valid words in OSPD3 but are
not palindromes.
READ.ME General info relating to use of all these files.
WHATS.NEW Version history.
SDN.ID Descriptor file necessary for SDN net distribution.
SDN.CTL Descriptor file necessary for commercial net distrib.
FILE_ID.DIZ Descriptor file necessary for BBS net distribution.
VENDINFO.DIZ Descriptor file necessor for vendor distribution.
DESC.SDI Additional short file descriptor.
AVEXTRA.TXT Short descriptor file to generate "unzip" message.
README.1ST This file.
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No registration fee requested for the SCRABLST package (it is only a "teaser"
for the WORDY package available from the same author).
Your comments and feedback welcome, though.
The OSPD is a trademark of Milton Bradley, a division of Habro, Inc.
WORDY and SCRABLST are not trademarks.
M\Cooper
3425 Chestnut Ridge Rd.
Grantsville, MD 21536-9801
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Email: thegrendel@aol.com
or thegrendel@gcc.cc.md.us