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Re: Re[4]: A Win95 question



On Fri, 16 May 1997, N. Sivin wrote:

> I find spell-checking an open file tedious and annoying. Try doing it on a
> file on disk instead. It generates a list of words it thinks are wrong.
> You can very speedily delete the ones that don't need correction (e.g.,
> proper names, Chinese, etc.), enter corrections for the rest, and use the
> file to do automatic search and replace to fix everything at once. Try it.
> You'll like it.

Not sure why you think we haven't! As Jane said (I'm her sister,
Judy), for the kind of work we both do, it's MUCH slower to do it
on disk.

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