ANAGRAM FERRET README.TXT

What Is Anagram Ferret?
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A highly configurable anagram finder that extracts anagrams from any word. Anagram Ferret 
can use any text file as a dictionary or, alternatively, find letter combinations. Anagram
Ferret is fast and user friendly.

How To Use Anagram Ferret
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Unzip Anagram Ferret 1e.zip with Winzip, available from www.winzip.com.
Run Anagram Ferret 1e.exe.
Enter the anagram into Anagram Input. Load a dictionary to spell check, select any options
and click Find Anagrams.

Dictionaries
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Dictionaries are used when Spell Check is enabled. Anagram Ferret compares anagrams to
entries in the dictionary. Dictionaries are available from the the 6hoopers website,
www.website.lineone.net/6hoopers/

Options In Anagram Ferret
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Spell Check - With Spell Check enabled, only anagrams in the dictionary are found. For
example, 'act' returns 'cat'. With Spell Check disabled, all combinations are found. For
example, 'abc' returns abc, acb, bac, bac etc.

Allow Shorter Words - With Allow Shorter Words enabled, shorter anagrams are also found. 
For example, 'post' returns 'pot' and 'top'. With Allow Shorter Words disabled, only true
anagrams are found. For example, 'post' returns 'stop' and 'pots'.

Anagram Output - With Anagram Output enabled, anagrams are displayed as they are found.
Disabling Anagram Output still finds anagrams but stores them in memory.

Limitations Of Anagram Ferret
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Anagram Input Length - 10 letters maximum.
Anagram Output Length - 10000 characters maximum. Overflow anagrams are stored in memory
and can be saved to file with Save Output.
Dictionary Size - 1000000 entries maximum.

Increasing Speed In Anagram Ferret
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Use an appropriate dictionary. If Anagram Input is 4 letters then using a full dictionary
is inefficient.
Disable Anagram Output and save the results using the Save Output button.

Troubleshooting
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Run-time Error - Make sure dictionaries do not contain punctuation marks.
Spell Check - Make sure you load a dictionary if Spell Check is enabled.
Spell Check - Make sure dictionaries are text files with each entry on a single line.
That should be it!

All bugs, comments, suggestions etc to: davey@lockandload.co.uk