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- Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 18:28:36 PDT
- Sender: Nota Bene List <NOTABENE@TAUNIVM>
- From: Dieter Christensen <dc@WOOF.MUSIC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
- Subject: Orbis problems
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- I am in the middle of a project which draws on a text
- base of some 1.2 MB of transcribed interviews including
- transliterated Arabic. This works fine if slow under TB.
- I am using the circumflex to represent long vowels - alif,
- waf etc. TB ignores the circumflex in the text base, i.e. it
- lists all occurrences of 'zar', whether the a has a
- circumflex or not - which suits me fine.
- Orbis (my version, received less than two weeks ago, is
- labelled 'prerelease') indexes the 1.2M on my 486/33 in
- 1'38" and looks up things in half no time as my children are
- fond of saying.
- HOWEVER, I can't get Orbis to accept circumflexed
- vowels, nor will it find occurrences of words with
- circumflexed vowels in the text base when I use a plain
- search word.
- So Orbis seems to be useless for me now, and I am
- returning (temporarily, I hope) to the slower TB which has
- fewer features but does work.
- Can anyone help me with this, please? Why does Orbis
- not accept high characters such as Ctrl-Alt-1 for a
- circumflex when NB does?
-
- I also want to report another surprise with Orbis - I
- searched for a single letter 'z' in my despair, got the not
- unexpected message 'insufficient memory', followed by
- '...searching ....', and then the computer froze. Hard
- reboot, and no external DOS commands worked any more.
- Inspection of path and then autoexec showed a bunch of
- LA1 in chevrons inserted in the path line and at the
- beginning and end of the autoexec file. It sure took me
- longer to clear this up then to describe it here, and I
- don't want to replicate the experience. I am sending this to
- NBI, of course. Meanwhile, may the postrelease Orbis be as
- worthy its highfalutin name as TB is its fitting one.
-
- Dieter Christensen
- dc22@columbia.edu
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-