Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The Dictionary
Summary: dictionary available from...
Message-ID: <384@mks.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 13:08:11 GMT
References: <233@tlxprs.UUCP> <16800191@clio>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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I didn't see the original posting, but in article <16800191@clio>, 
berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu writes:
> Webster's Collegiate used to be available on 12 mag tapes, and was
> very cheap for educational institutions.  There's at least one
> dictionary available on CD-ROM.  I don't know of anything practical
> for a typical XT class machine.

I have seen a word list (without definitions, etc.) that is available
from The Austin Code Works for a very good price ($60, I think it was).
It is a plain ASCII file that fills several floppies. 250,000 words,
or so. Look for their ads in Dr. Dobb's Journal, BYTE, etc.
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