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- From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: WordHound
- Message-ID: <KERS.92Jul30100935@cdollin.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 09:09:35 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: stuart@hpopd.pwd.hp.com's message of Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:46:29 GMT
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- Tried Wordhound last night (I had to take Wordhound2 home in two parts, to fit
- it on my PC floppies, and couldn't remember the RISC OS command to concatenate
- files. This *is* one, isn't there?), not bad.
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- An observation: I kept *double* clicking on entries to expand them. Do other
- people find this? I'd prefer one click for select, second to fire (I'm an
- ``anti-double-click'' person), but I'm interested in other opinions.
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- Now the hard bits. How about allowing the dictionary & thesaurus to be
- expanded? For example, it didn't seem to know ``instantiate'' (but it was OK on
- ``peripatetic'', the next word we tried). Also one would like to attatch
- specialist dictionaries to it. ANd can we extract the information *in* the
- dictionary & thesaurus?
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- Regards, | It's strange how you suddenly discover bizarre and dangerous
- Kers. | holes in your knowledge. I fell down one today. - Steve Knight
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