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From: CARPENTR@SERVAX.BITNET (RALPH=CARPENTER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Unpacking Speller Dictionaries
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Date: 3 Dec 89 03:13:22 GMT
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Joel Sumner (Q4KX@CornellA) asks:
>Is there any ** legal ** way to decrypt dictionaries from various
>spell-checkers?  I am looking for a way to get a file filled with a
>large number of words (50,000 - 80,000 should be quite sufficient).

Joel,

        Compu$erve's Apple Forum has a nice Alan Bird program
CONVERT.SS which unpacks Sensible Speller's dictionaries into a text
file of words separated by CR's. (There's also a separate patch
program up there which turns the CR's into Spaces.)  I used CONVERT.SS
a few whiles back to enhance my Vax/Vms speller.  I'm forwarding a
Shrunk/Binscii'd copy to you directly.

        If anyone else would like a copy, Email me, and I'll forward
copies as time permits.

                                        Ralpho
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