Do you like to solve anagrams?  Do you get stumped on word jumbles?
This may be your lucky day!

JUMBLE is a program that will provide all possible arrangements of any
input text.  Just give it a word and let it go.  All you have to do is pick
out an answer from the list produced.  What could be easier?

There is one small problem, though.  JUMBLE gives you 'ALL' possible
arrangements of the input text.  The larger word you give it, the longer
the list of anagrams.  And the list grows fast!

   Example: 2 letters = 2 words
            3 letters = 6 words
            4 letters = 24 words
            5 letters = 120 words
            6 letters = 720 words
            7 letters = 5040 words
            8 letters = 40320 words
            9 letters = 362880 words

   You don't want to look thru the list for 20 letters, trust me!

I have provided a filter option that may pare down the list for you.  If
you add the -f switch when JUMBLE is run, it will not print 'invalid' words.
My definition of invalid is any word that has either 3 vowels together or 4
consonants together.  It may not help, but it can't hurt and you don't have
to use it.  If you have another filter condition that you would like, let
me know and I'll try to add it.

To run, just type JUMBLE (optionally the '-f' flag) then the text.  If the
text has any imbedded spaces just enclose the whole text string in quotes.
You can ABORT this thing at any time by pressing CTRL-C.

  Example: JUMBLE abc
           JUMBLE amiga
           JUMBLE -f amiga
           JUMBLE "hi ho"
           JUMBLE BigWordList   <- I hope you have a lot of free time.

I didn't create the algorithm for this myself.  I can't remember exactly
where I stole it from, but it was in PASCAL on an MS-DOS machine somewhere.
You are free to optimize, change, enhance, or otherwise mangle this all you
want.  I've included the Manx 'C' source code.

I have actually used it to solve the WORD JUMBLE in the Sunday paper so I
will say that it does do what it is advertised to do.  Just keep the words
short or you will ruin your eyes staring at the screen.

M.D.Groshart
26 Jan 89
AUoH #84