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- From: M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK
- Subject: Spelling checker problems (was Jonagold)
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- In-Reply-To: <9871.9211061116@cen.ex.ac.uk>; from "Robert Braham" at Nov 6,
- 92 6:12 am
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- To start with (a problem follows below)......
-
- Robert Braham wrote........
- >
- >
- > >From: M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK
- >
- > >I'd love to try [Jonagolds]
- > >... apples are one of my three favourite fruits.... the
- > >Lord has cursed me with an inability to eat enough avocados and guavas
- > >also.... it's an added twist to the problems of exile!
- >
- > Allusion check: are you referring to exile from S.Africa?
-
- From South Africa - the western Cape in particular....
-
- >
- > > . . . it starts raining later in
- > >the morning, usually, so far...soft autumn colours and my sheep look
- > >so calm in the mist. Sometimes, I feel that the only place and time
- > >there's peace is in my orchard in the early morning....
- >
- > Sounds lovely. Real sheep? Wow.
-
- Yep. Real sheep - currently, a black and white Jacobs (see your Bible
- for that allusion) and an ordinary Devon...
- ------------------------------------
- And then the main issue......
-
- I have been upgraded with 3.1 from 3.0, and am having a miserable time
- with my spelling checker. According to the documentation, the default
- dictionary is the US one, and one thus changes to the UK English one
- with F1-O-S-D-P-U. The alternative is to put a line as suggested into
- startup.int; this copies an editor overlay and apparently loads it,
- and I have done this.
-
- My problem is that loading the UK dictionary is rickety and unstable.
- It gets easily upset or does not seem to load properly, with the
- corruption of spelling checker help screens. The matter is quickly set
- right by Esc-aping out of the spelling-check session, running
- F1-O-S-D-P-U, and resuming. More seriously, it seems to be linked with
- total lockups when a single word is questioned with Ctrl-?.
-
- Please - is there something special and distinctive about startup.int
- or default.set with NB 3.1 when the non-default dictionaries are
- loaded? Or the configuration of memory (files? buffers? of which I
- have ensured a great many to be available?). I'm running DOS 5 - is
- there something which should NOT be load(ed)high for 3.1 purposes? My
- instinct is that there is a simple answer....
-
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- Mervyn E. Bennun, Law Department, University of Exeter
- Phone: (+44) (0) 392 263 161
- Postal Address: Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, Devon, U.K.
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