154. !BOOT file for ViewSpell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ During a demonstration of 3 spelling checker packages, ViewSpell by Acorn came out as the worst, mainly because there was a lot of work involved for the user with originally generating the text in View, calling up ViewSpell, doing a disc change, making the ROM work, another disc change, then back into View for the results of the check! Yes, done this way it can be a nightmare! I have only a single 80 track double-sided Cumana drive, hooked up to an Electron with 1770 DFS, (you may snigger but PAGE is always E00), and have configured my !BOOT file, placed on the master dictionary disc, to do most of the work, including searching a number of user dictionaries. The disc is set up in the following way. Place all the dictionaries on side 2 and the text file to be checked as "text" on side 0. You will tell the ViewSpell system where all these bits are by the use of the PREFIX statements in the software when setting up the !BOOT file. The 'line' numbers below are the ones which appear when you are *BUILDING the !BOOT file, so don't type them in! NB: Lines 10 and 11 refer to user dictionaries; yours will no doubt differ. Make sure you are able to call both View and ViewSpell from the existing system. Line 12 is a blank. This is where the system asks for a user dictionary, and if using the keyboard one would only press . The !BOOT file therefore does it for you. Also, the statement in line 16 sets View into Format and Insert modes; your version may differ and may need a small change. After you have built your !BOOT file, save your text as described above, and then !BOOT the disc. When the system has finished you will be presented with the 1st item of your document which is spelt incorrectly. This is where you take over again after all the hard work has been done! 1 *BASIC 2 MODE 6 (or MODE 7, but then leave out line 3 for text colour) 3 VDU 19,1,3,0,0,0 4 *SPELL 5 PREFIX M :2. 6 PREFIX U :2. 7 PREFIX T :0. 8 LOAD TEXT 9 CHECK 10 OTHERS 11 BAD 12 (Just press here) 13 MARK MARKER 14 MODE 3 15 *W. 16 SET FI 17 LOAD MARKER 18 SEARCH #!