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- From: ijp@oak3.doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: 3d icons for RO3.xx
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.091332.28767@doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 09:13:32 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.220632.23652@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
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- epoo1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Edouard Malachi Poor) writes:
- : In <1992Jul21.101037.19560@doc.ic.ac.uk> ijp@oak9.doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
- :
- : >Oh, and on a different note, something to wet your appetites. I shall
- : >soon (probably tomorrow, if not next week) upload (to somewhere, havn't
- : >decided where yet) a little (understatement of the year) application
- : >called 'Word Hound' a combined thesaurus and dictionary (yes
- : >dictionary, with definitions and the like). The only problem is that
- : >it's big (very big - we are talking hard disc only application here)
- : >and I havn't quite worked out how to split the main dictionary (2 Meg
- : >of compressed data) into distributable (and recombinable) bits yet.
- :
- : > [...deleted for brevity...]
- :
- : Ahhh! Sounds like _exactly_ what I've always wanted! Hows about sending
- : it to comp.binaries.acorn so the rest of the world can enjoy it too?
- :
- : >Ian
- :
- : Edouard
-
- I'll send it to comp.binaries.acorn if you really want, but as I've
- said "it's big". In compressed binary form (not uuencoded) it's over
- 3Meg long, which if you posted at about 50k a day would take about 10
- weeks :-)
-
- For this reason I don't really want to send/upload it to anywhere
- where I can't either ftp to to there, or send it in big pieces.
-
- I'll upload it to Manchester (uts.mcc.ac.uk) today (I can ftp to
- there) and unless some other site, group, asks me specifically I won't
- send/upload it anywhere else (for the time being).
-
- If you do really want me to send it to comp.binaries.acorn I will need
- to know what the largest single mail message can be handled at your
- end, as I don't really feel like splitting it into 85 pieces and
- mailing them if I can get away with doing it in less (but bigger)
- bits.
-
- Ian
-
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