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- From: Michael Loader <softlogik@earthlink.net>
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- Subject: Re: Concatinating Dictionaries and Thesauri (Mike Loader, this one's fer you)
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 13:22:27 -0500
- Organization: SoftLogik Publishing
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- Dennis Grant wrote:
- >
- > Each one of those programs has a dictionary in it. Some have more than one,
- > and a couple have thesauri as well.
- >
- > Surely there's a way to merge all these dictionaries into one big one.
-
- Sorry, there's no way to merge them. Each company licenses dictionaries
- from firms that specialize in this. We're just given code to compile and
- we don't change what we're given. The licenses don't allow this.
-
- BTW, Softwood and Digita both licensed the same dictionary systems, so
- there's no overlap in content.
-
- What you're asking for really is OS level dictionary support. It's
- unbelievable, but it's 1996 and we still don't have that in any major
- OS. It's something that should have been added years ago.
-
- Regards,
-
- Michael
- SoftLogik
-