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Re: OED redux

Hi Carl,

Thanks.  The direct-from-OUP option that I saw was @ $295.  I just found an Amazon listing for this @ $157., which could be in the ballpark.  The merchant in question has an 88 % favorable rating though, which might be a tad low.  (Amazon stands behind their own sales, but not necessarily behind third party vendors.) 

Your VZW phone has been sending to me in duplicate, for some reason.

   Jordan


From: CLD
To: J R FOX
Cc: xywrite
Sent: Sunday, June 4, 2017 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: OED redux

Less than three bills (Franklins) directly from OUP.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Tablet
On Jun 4, 2017 7:14 PM, 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. 


   Jordan


From: CLD
To: J R FOX
Cc: xywrite
Sent: Sunday, June 4, 2017 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: OED redux

OED4 installs to disk.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Tablet
On Jun 4, 2017 1:16 PM, J R FOX wrote:
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.) 

It seems like this DICT format transformation could have rendered most of those previous OED usage restrictions irrelevant. 


   Jordan


From: Carl Distefano
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, June 3, 2017 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: OED redux

Reply to note from J R FOX mailto:jr_fox@xxxxxxxx Sat, 3 Jun 2017
16:31:08 +0000 (UTC)


> Rather hard to find the *old* CDs.


No need to, Jordan. The latest OED on CD-ROM will do fine:

http://bit.ly/OEDonCDv4

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.

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

--
Carl Distefano
mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx