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From: costello@stx.UUCP (Michael E. Costello)
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Subject: Re: American Heritage Dictionary for Macs
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Date: 16 Jan 91 09:28:04 GMT
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In article <50722@cornell.UUCP>, hal@krishna.cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins) writes:
> 
> I was browsing in the bookstore today and discovered that there is a
> Macintosh version of the American Heritage Dictionary, complete with a
> thesaurus.  Does anybody have any experience with this?  Is it any
> good?  Is it worth the 3MB of disk space that it occupies?
> 
I'd say yes.  It's a great dictionary, it supports wildcard searches and
anagrams, plus it has etymologies, which I haven't seen elsewhere.  Within
a definition window, double clicking on a word defines that word, etc. 
Check it out.

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