Re: faulty spell checker/dictionary?

[Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from "Patricia M. Godfrey"  Tue,
03 Jul 2007 17:34:46 -0400

Patricia:

> But business.spl, in Xy4, is not binary like DICT.SPL, but an
> editable file, only one created by XyQuest/TTG, not Joe or Jane
> User. It would seem she didn't have it loaded (or maybe it had
> gotten corrupted itself previously) and so the "Save
> Permanently" somehow got written to DICT.SPL, trashing it.

You're mystifying a situation that is clear and straight-forward.
The OP shows that (1) the press of F5 DID record the unwanted change
in business.spl, and the user edited it out; and (2) she trashed
DICT.SPL by SToring it along with her plain-text SPL files:

OP> She opened each of the following files: prfpers.spl, pers.spl,
OP> legal.spl, DICT.SPL, AND BUSINESS.SPL. She also opened dict.
OP> although she only MADE CHANGES TO THE BUSINESS.SPL FILE, she
OP> STORED EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM when exiting out of each
OP> file, rather than executing "ab".

>> You don't need to use STSPELL to create these files -- they
>> already exist.
> Not necessarily always. ...

MY POINT WAS, if a plain-text SPL file already exists (as the user's
BUSINESS.SPL plainly did), you can edit, STore, and reLOAD it in the
normal fashion. No one disputes that STSPELL is a useful command;
it is simply irrelevant to the OP's query.

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx