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From: ABN.ISCAMS%usc-isid@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: SPELL and DICT.DIC
Message-ID: <14912@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Dec-83 20:56:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 22 20:56:00 1983
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I successfully downloaded SPELL from SIMTEL20 (MICRO:<CPM.SPELL>), and it's
a lovely, lovely program!  However... the accompanying DICT.DIC is another
story!  I understand from some documentation that DICT.DIC is a VERY strange
file indeed, and for sure 8-bit (I GUESS binary - what else?).  All my
usual tricks to move a binary file through my local TAC (which kind of
blows up when I try to B I S, but that's another story)...anyway, HEXIFY
seems to change DICT.DIC into a nice hex file, and I can move that big
sucker across OK (thanks to KERMIT or MDM715), BUT my loader programs
down on the micro (a CP/M 64K system) (the usual CP/M LOAD.COM and the
Public Domain MLOAD.COM which has never failed me yet) will NOT handle
DICT.HEX -- they come up with a File Format error.

Any suggestions, NetLandians?  We're working on the brain-damaged TAC,
but I'm at a loss.  KERMIT, for some reason, will NOT even begin to transfer
DICT.DIC (despite setting all for binary/8-bit).  I tried changing the
DEC 32-bit words to 8-bit (via COPY) to try a KERMIT 8-bit transfer, but
no go there either.

Stuck, and frustrated...
David Kirschbaum
Toad Hall
(ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID)