Re: vDos and microlytics speller

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Dear John
I was excited for a moment but I think, unfortunately, that you are
actually using the PCLEX dictionary, not the Microlytics. That works
for me too and does not require EMS.

Best wishes

Paul

On 11/12/2014 10:05, Jon Inggs wrote:
> Carl & Paul
>
> The UK dictionary runs fine on my vDosXy setup - see below.
>
> I am another low profile user group subscriber who who still uses Xy4
> regularly to create tutorial material for my students. In the past I
> produced the South African Journal of Economic History with it for about
> 20 years.
>
> It is the non-eye straining, full DOS screen, customized to white text
> on black and the pure word power that has kept me with Xy4 over the
> years. Apart from that, I started wordprocessing with Atex at the
> newspaper I started working for in 1980.
>
> The University moved from WinXP to Win7 at the beginning of 2014 so I
> have been following the Virtual and vDOS workarounds with interest.
>
> I haven't changed much in the factory issue vDOS setup but I see that
> EMS=ON in config.txt.
>
> When I execute MEM in Xy4 there is no Dictionary expanded mem entry but
> main mem=5K, Spell=4 and Hyphenation=14. XyWrite=634K.
>
> These are the dictionary entries in my settings.dfl file:
>
> ;Turn on Signature UK dic/disable XYWrite US dic
> DF LX=c:\xy4\
> DF UD=UK
> ;DF UD=AFRIKAAN
> ;DF OM=0 previously working setting
> DF OM=0
> ;
> ;Test: 2003 Holmgrem suggestion
> ;DF OM=31
> ;DF ZX=1
> ;DF OM=15
> ;om = 15 to activate Signature's dictionary's hyphenation but use
> Microlytics dictionary for spelling
> ;End of Signature dictionary settings
> ;
> ;Preserve upper and lower case in spelling commands, e.g. Auto-Expand
> ; (`Zero Capitalization')
> df zc=1
>
> The dictionary file is UK.DIC (622K 1991/08/13)
>
> Regards
> Jon Inggs