First post, by zyzzle
Inspired by the exceptional work of Jo22 in locating Stll River Shell -- a program I haven't seen of or heard about in 30 years, I have a possibly even more difficult request.
Back in 1992, I distinctly remember a Shareware / Demo 5.25" disk of a DOS Grammar file checker called Prostyle, created by an outfit called Midnight Oil Productions. The company was a member of the ASP, and I found the the documentation PROSTYLE.DOC I had saved, but can't locate the actual program anywhere. It seems to have completely disappeared. It was definitely released in 1992, and may have been on 1992 or 1993 CD shareware shovelware collections.
The PROSTYLE.EXE program would give highly interesting and somewhat amusing results when fed ASCII text files, like "This is terrible!" and give all sorts of analysis like number of words. "grade level" and other facts.
It is probably buried in cd.textfiles or some other shovelware collection. I've looked in such collections, and at archive.org but can't find it or ferret it out. There were other such programs, such as PC-PROOF, which *is* listed at Simtel Collection mirror sites like: http://www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/txtutl.html
May jo22 or some other expert in Google-fu and / or anyone who has this (obviously, by now) exceptionally rare DOS program help? Perhaps the .ZIP is archived on an old preserved page on the Wayback Machine somewhere, but I wouldn't know where to start there!
Many and profound thanks. I've discovered so many "lost" programs thanks to similar treasure-hunt threads. So, I have faith that this fine community may provide some closure on this. I've been searching for years for this little nugget.
