Re: Re.: A matter of dictionaries.

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 Thanks Robert. I have tried all of the modifications suggested
 here as well as others suggested in the archives. For some rea-
 son, none seem to work for me. I'll explore the matter further.

 M.W. Poirier


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On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Robert Holmgren wrote:

> ** Reply to message from "M.W. Poirier"  on Sun, 04
> Jun 2006 09:47:10 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
> > First, after I make the modifications you speak of below, i.e.,
> > modify the UKDICT dictionary name to DICT.SPL, and then give the
> > command to spellcheck, I get the error message "there is not enough
> > memory to perform function."
>
> Command HELP TOGGLEDCT. There are several considerations. Either:
>  You don't start XyWrite with the expanded memory switch
>   d:\path\editor.exe /e4000
>  Make 5120Kb of expanded memory available on the shortcut's Memory tab
> or
>  DeFault OM isn't set to 31
> or
>  DeFault ZX isn't set to 0
> or
>  You didn't Quit and restart XyWrite after renaming the UK dictionary to
> DICT.SPL.
>
> > However, I do have access to the thesaurus, and here all of the words
> > that one would expect to be spelled in the U.K. way are spelled in the
> > U.S. manner, and it I ask for a synonym for "favour," it defaults to
> > what it thinks is the closest word in the word list...
>
> The thesaurus distributed with Xy4 is WFBG.SYN. It has nothing to do with the
> Microlytics dictionaries. It is American. If you want a British thesaurus,
> you need to use the PCLEX dictionary (where the thesaurus _is_ integrated into
> the dictionary), not Microlytics.
>
> There's a tonne of stuff about this in the archives.
>
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> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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