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Subject: Pocket Writer 2.0 Dictionary
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Date: Sun, 16-Aug-87 17:40:35 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 16 17:40:35 1987
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From: prindle@nadc.arpa (Frank Prindle)

I purchased the Pocket Writer Dictionary and found it severely lacking in a 
great many common words!  So I made my own dictionary by adding to the PWD the
full public domain dictionary from CP/M Spell 2.1.  To do this, I made a little
rubber foot to sit on the "A" key and sat a book on top.  After twenty six 
iterations of this, I had the final product - well over 800 blocks on the 1571
diskette (though I did the updates in RAM disk).  This is a super dictionary 
with undoubtedly over 40000 words.  I never was able to figure out the format
of the dictionary itself, though it seems to use some compressed (5 bit?) code
to represent the data.  I also have the Spell 2.1 dictionary alone in PW2 format
but that isn't quite as complete.  In any case, I don't consider myself totally
insane and the "A" key approach isn't all that bad - probably less time is re-
quired than deciphering the dictionary format and writing a program to translate
the desired dictionary to that format.
Sincerely,
Frank Prindle
Prindle@NADC.arpa