Re: OED redux

[Daniel Say say@xxxxxxxx]

  And Re: Mr. Sawyer's suggestion
  See
https://www.worldcat.org/title/oxford-english-dictionary/oclc/880438413&referer=brief_results

  Put your own post code, town etc. in the record and it will show most neighbouring libraries
  with the OED online. (first try used your IPv4 address to guess your locality)
  Most will let you look if you sign in with your public library card and its password.


----- J R FOX  wrote:
> O.K.  Then I will look into whether there are any inviting deals to be had on this.  Used -- I don't care, as long as the disc is still readable.  But I'm doubting that three bills is going to fly, per my own level of interest. 
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>    Jordan
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>    From: CLD 
> To: J R FOX 
> Cc: xywrite 
> Sent: Sunday, June 4, 2017 3:58 PM
> Subject: Re: OED redux
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> OED4 installs to disk.Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE TabletOn Jun 4, 2017 1:16 PM, J R FOX  wrote:
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> Thanks Carl. 
> But wasn't a lot of the detailed presentation in that OED treatise about navigating the serious limitations on which versions could be freely installed to HDD storage, for access on demand ?  Without having to keep a CD in an optical drive ?  (I have not consulted the XyWWWeb OED pages again recently, other than to excerpt that first section with the versions and software info, but I don't recall it being updated with that news about the latest edition.) 
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> It seems like this DICT format transformation could have rendered most of those previous OED usage restrictions irrelevant. 
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>    Jordan
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>    From: Carl Distefano 
> To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, June 3, 2017 2:11 PM
> Subject: Re: OED redux
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> Reply to note from J R FOX  Sat, 3 Jun 2017
> 16:31:08 +0000 (UTC)
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> > Rather hard to find the *old* CDs.
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> No need to, Jordan. The latest OED on CD-ROM will do fine:
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> http://bit.ly/OEDonCDv4
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> Check first to ensure that it will work with your version of Windows.
> The website asserts compatibility through Windows 7, but I'd be
> surprised if it didn't work with later versions of Windows as well.
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> A handy feature of OED4 is that it polls the Windows clipboard and
> updates the current definition accordingly. So if you save a word to
> the clipboard in XyWrite (or any other program) and switch to the OED
> -- boom, the definition is there. No elaborate lookup procedure
> necessary. Watch: https://youtu.be/pa42Qb-7Wvk
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> --
> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxx
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