Spell Utility Combining Dictionaries, Adding

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:37:25 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: When a user selects the Combine 5.0 or 5.1 Spellers in the Spell utility (SPELL.EXE) to combine the 5.0 dictionary with the 5.1 dictionary, it seems to be caught in an endless loop of reading and writing. The user watched the computer for an hour. It read all the letters and wrote them again at least 5 different times. The same problem occurs when the user adds a list of words to the .LEX file. Solutions: The system seemed to be in a loop during the process because the added words were alphabetized after each word. SPELL.EXE adds the word and then goes through the loop of A to Z to alphabetize the .LEX file. The process of converting spellers took 45 minutes on a 286. The user had an XT, and since 286s are at least 3-5 times faster then XTs, depending on their setup, the user might want to run it overnight.

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