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A L L P H O N E W O R D v1.1
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AllPhoneWord accepts telephone numbers and tries to make English words
from them by generating all possible letter combinations from the digits.
AllPhoneWord is public domain and may be freely distributed.
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------------- H O W T O U S E A L L P H O N E W O R D ---------------
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To run AllPhoneWord type "AllPhoneWord" at the CLI prompt, or double-click
its icon.
A brief set of instructions will be displayed, and then a prompt for you
to enter 1 to 7 digits, as in part or all of a phone number. Zero and one
are not accepted (there are no letters on the phone dial for 0 and 1);
If you enter more than seven digits or anything that is not a digit 2-9
then an appropriate message is displayed.
If the phone number has ones or zeroes, then enter groups of the digits
other one and zero. For example, if the number is 691-4567, then try
4567 (and maybe 69). You should try grouping the seven digits in
different ways anyway, since two words might be found easier than
big one. For example if the number is 234-5678, you could try
23 & 45678,
234 & 5678,
2345 & 678,
23456 & 78,
2345678.
If you do a group of three digits and a group of four, you will only
have to inspect 91 "words", whereas if you enter a seven-digit number
all at once you will be presented with 2,187 possible "words".
After you enter the 1-7 digits a list of all possible "words" will be
displayed. If there is more than one screenful of "words" there will
be a pause and prompt at the bottom of the screen. After all "words"
have been displayed you will be prompted for a new set of 1-7 digits.
When you get the prompt for 1-7 digits you may press <RETURN> without
typing any preceeding characters to quit.
NOTE: There are 2187 different "words" for seven digits, so be prepared
to see them all. You can type ^C and <RETURN> to escape a long list
but that will cause AllPhoneWord to exit.
Do not RUN AllPhoneWord, as in "RUN AllPhoneWord", because it won't work.
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-------------- H O W A L L P H O N E W O R D W O R K S ----------------
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AllPhoneWord was programmed in Manx Aztec C using recursion to generate
a variable number of nested 'for' loops, where the number of nested 'for'
loops depends on the number of digits entered.
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-------------------------- W H O D I D I T ----------------------------
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Ron Charlton
9002 Balcor Circle
Knoxville, TN 37923
Phone: (615)694-0800
PLINK: R*CHARLTON
BINTNET: charltr@utkvx1
05-Jul-90