Subject: Re: AikSaurus 0.08
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Jul 15 2001 - 19:53:18 CDT
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Jared Davis wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> A new version of AikSaurus (formerly AbiSaurus) is available. The name
> change is only for trademark reasons, the thesaurus itself is still the same
> thing and is still released under the GPL.
>
Too bad you had to change the name. I thought AbiSaurus was great.
> The new version has some cleaned up innards in the bzreader, with some more
> intelligent error handling and reporting.
>
> It also supports a new "similar words" feature, which returns known words
> alphabetically near the searched-for word. For example, if the user
> searches for "tempted", there are no results, but you can display a small
> list of alphabetically similar words, which include:
>
> tempt
> tempation
> tempter
> tempting
>
> All of which may yield synonyms that are similar to what the user wants to
> find.
>
> The web site for the project is now:
> http://aiken.clan11.com/aiksaurus/
>
Cool I'll give it whirl.
Martin
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