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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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