Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!ABN.ISCAMS@usc-isid From: ABN.ISCAMS%usc-isid@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: SPELL and its DICT.DIC Message-ID: <15409@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12-Jan-84 17:03:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.15409 Posted: Thu Jan 12 17:03:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Jan-84 20:35:14 EST Lines: 21 You all may know SPELL (a nice public domain spelling checker) and an ITS-binary format dictionary, DICT.DIC are out on SIMTEL20 under MICRO:SPELL.(MAC, COM).1 and DICT.DIC.1 If you have a particularly brain-damaged TAC like mine, you may find it difficult to download an 8-bit binary file to your micro. And if you lost the pointers to a particular utilityl on TOPS-20 (I think) that converts ITS-Binary files to regular 8-bit binary (by stripping off the first 32-bit word, I guess), you may find it even harder to get that DICT.DIC to run! I solved both problems, and if anyone wants a (somewhat lengthy) How To (right down at the novice, how to figure SAVE pages in DDT, level) -- message me. Don't want to inflict it on the net. If the SIMTEL20 MICRO: Sysop is out there, and if there's enough interest in this, maybe you'd like to put it in the directory. David Kirschbaum Toad Hall (ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID)