Xref: utzoo misc.wanted:12022 comp.sources.wanted:14019 alt.sources.wanted:660 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!uokmax!unmvax!ariel.unm.edu!cie!kgowen From: kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu (Kevin Gowen) Newsgroups: misc.wanted,comp.sources.wanted,alt.sources.wanted Subject: Spelling checker file wanted Message-ID: <1990Nov9.202538.25634@ariel.unm.edu> Date: 9 Nov 90 20:25:38 GMT References: <1990Oct19.204926.17576@techbook.com> <6435@plains.NoDak.edu> Sender: news@ariel.unm.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu (Kevin Gowen) Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange Lines: 28 This may not be the correct newsgroup for this, but here goes: Playing around with anonymous ftp, I discovered an internet site, cc.sfu.ca (128.189.32.250) that had available for download 8 archived text files, webster1.zip, webster2.zip,..., webster8.zip. Each file is simply a list of dictionary words in alphabetic order. Added together, there should be about 200,000+ words in all of these files. Each file is about 100-110K bytes. Except for webster8.zip. This file is 0 bytes long. Looks like something went wrong when it was uploaded. This is frustrating because I have a shareware ms-dos spelling checker that enables you to add words to its dictionary from a file of words. Does anyone know another ftp site where I can get my hands on on a good version of webster8.zip? If I can add all the words from these "webster" files to the existing dictionary, I will have one kick-ass spelling checker... -kevin ======================================================================== kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu Just too cool to have a .sig file ======================================================================== "Politicans say more taxes will solve everything. And the band played on..."