Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!claris!jazzman
From: jazzman@claris.com (Sydney R. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Multiscribe GS & Dictionary
Message-ID: <10395@claris.com>
Date: 15 Jul 89 01:37:14 GMT
References: <417@mountn.dec.com>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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From article <417@mountn.dec.com>, by shatara@memit.dec.com (Chris Shatara):
> I recently put a hard disk on my kids (ha!) //gs and this evening ran
> into a strange problem with Multiscribe GS (V3).  I have the dictionary
> on the the hard disk.  I was playing with the thesauraus and I opened a
> new document typed ONE (1) WORD, highlighted it and then asked for
> synonyms.  It prompted me for the dictionary so I clicked on the 
> disctionary that was on the hard disk.  It proceeded to tell me i didn't 
> have enough memory for this operation.
> 
> I have 1.25M in the system, I had the /ram5 disk set to 256K. I check the 
> control panel to get some idea of how much memory I had available and I
> had close to 400K.  I then zeroed out the ram disk, POWERED DOWN THE 
> SYSTEM, and tried the same thing again......Same thing.
> 
> I then tried it a third time with the utilities disk in the 3.5" drive 
> (this is one the has the dictionary on it) and everything worked just 
> fine.
> 
> I'm running GS/OS which came with System Disk 4.
> 
> Is this an undocumented feature or am I missing something?
This is the same code that is in AppleWorks GS, and is even less stable
because MultiScribe was tested very little.  I'm suprised the speller works
at all.  And whatever you do, if you want to check spelling, keep the
dictionary disk in the drive.

It's been two years since MSGS was released and we are just now getting
around to fixing spell checker bugs in AWGS.  Too bad we aren't doing MSGS
anymore.


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