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From: brunkhorst@MAYO.EDU (Geoffrey Brunkhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re^2: xwebster
Message-ID: <8909071338.AA04677@fermat.Mayo.edu>
Date: 7 Sep 89 13:38:58 GMT
Organization: The Internet
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>	Is NeXT's on-line dictionary public domain?  Out of curiosity, how
>	large (in bytes) is NeXT's on-line dictionary?

NeXT has licensed the dictionary from Merriam Webster's and the license is
such that the data in only to be accessed from a NeXT system (i.e. you could
be anywhere in the world, and you could access my NeXT's Webster's database,
IFF your final point of processing is a NeXT.  Seems vague and hard to 
enforce...

On a NeXT, the database is (I think, our NeXT just blew it's O.D...) around
60MB, including TIFF images.

- Geoff
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Geoffrey Brunkhorst                                         brunkhorst@Mayo.edu
Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN, 55905 USA                         (507) 285-6941
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