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From: saa33413@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Spell-Checker Dictionary Decrypting
Message-ID: <113300204@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 89 10:38:58 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!saa33413    Dec  2 13:42:00 1989


I have Sensible Speller IV and AppleWorks 3.0.  I don't know how the AW
dictionary goes together (probably the same as TO QuickSpell, since that is
basically what AW 3.0 uses for its built-in speller), but I have taken a
look at the Sensible Speller dictionaries.  If I remember right, they aren't
really encrypted.  Imagine the disk as one 140K sequential text file.  It
starts with track 0, sector 0 (I assume you're using DOS 3.3 for this) and
goes through each sector in ascending order, then through each track.  Words
in the file end with the sign bit set opposite of whatever it is in the rest
of the word.

Hope this helps.

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