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1.1     ! root        1: The writing tools package contains 3 command files,
        !             2:        style, diction, and explain.
        !             3: ``style'' reads a document and analyzes the surface
        !             4:        characteristics of the writing style of the document.
        !             5: ``diction'' locates all sentences in a document containing
        !             6:        commonly misused or wordy phrases.
        !             7: ``explain'' is an interactive thesaures for the phrases found by diction.
        !             8: 
        !             9: The manual pages are in files style.1 and diction.1 - see the enclosed documentation
        !            10:        for more details.
        !            11: 
        !            12: ``style'' is a runcom that runs 4 programs, style1, style2, style3, and deroff.
        !            13:        style1, style2, style3 are included on the tape, you should not need to
        !            14:        make them, but if you do -
        !            15: 
        !            16: To make style1, style2, style3:
        !            17:        set BIN in Makefile to the directory where the object files
        !            18:                are to be stored.
        !            19:        then run ``make style''
        !            20:        in the file ``style'' set B to the same directory as BIN above.
        !            21: 
        !            22: ``diction'' is a runcom that runs 2 programs, dprog and deroff.
        !            23:        dprog has been included on the tape, but you will need to make it
        !            24:        to include the full path name of dict.d
        !            25: 
        !            26: To make dprog:
        !            27:        set DICT in Makefile to the full path name of diction's data
        !            28:                file ``dict.d''
        !            29:        the program ``dprog'' will get put in the same place as
        !            30:                the object files for style (BIN).
        !            31:        then run ``make diction''
        !            32:        the file ``diction'' also needs B set to the same directory as BIN
        !            33:                above
        !            34: 
        !            35: The file ``explain'' needs D set to the full path name of the file
        !            36:        explain.d
        !            37: 
        !            38: Both ``style'' and ``diction'' expect the document to contain formatting
        !            39:        commands.  A new version of deroff is included that knows about
        !            40:        the standard UNIX formatting macro packages.
        !            41:        the command ``make deroff'' will install deroff in BIN mentioned
        !            42:        above.  You may wish to install this version of deroff in /usr/bin
        !            43:        in which case the path names to it in files ``style'' and
        !            44:        ``diction'' should be changed accordingly.
        !            45: 
        !            46: The default flag passed to deroff (either -ms or -ml) in both
        !            47:        style and diction should be set to the proper one for your installation.
        !            48: 
        !            49: These programs will not compile under UNIX version 6 or PWB 1.2 due
        !            50:        to size limitations on these systems.

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