ch1@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Chris Helferty) (07/12/89)
>> ......I have a hard drive >>and 2 5.25" dirves on my system. I don't see why I should have to buy >>a 3.5" drive just to load the full dictionary onto my HD. We should be >>given the option at least to have the full spelling dictionary on the >>5.25" floppies..... > >Since it seems reasonable to you to demand that Claris find a way to supply >you with a usable file on a 5 1/4" disk even though the file is bigger than >144K, it should seem reasonable for you to demand that they supply the >dictionary file as a ShrinkIT archive (which probably would fit on one 5 1/4 >" floppy), along with a copy of ShrinkIT so you could unshrink it onto your >hard disk..... I won't be getting AW 3.0 but I do see the 5 1/4 dilemma as a valid complaint. I don't know if the ShrinkIt solution was a serious one or not but nevertheless it did seem a little off of the deep end. How about dividing the dictionary into 2 or more files which can be appended to one another through a simple EXEC installation file? *In a sense*, this is how the Kermit installation program works, as far as I can tell, and even Binscii looks to be appending extracted files to already existing files. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon M. Pearsall NASA Industrial Applications Center University of Pittsburgh