Re: non-CDROM dictionaries

["Joe.Bormel" <joe.bormel@palmtop.com>]

John,
     FYI, I'm using a 2 Meg, American Heritage dictionary
on a flashram card on my DOS palmtop.  Here is my dictionary:

KD       EXE     54,681 08-11-94   8:37p
KEYDICT  NDX    217,826 08-11-94   8:37p
KDCONFIG EXE     10,713 08-11-94   8:37p
KEYDICT  DIC  1,998,986 08-11-94   8:40p
KEYDICT  CFG        252 08-11-94   8:59p
       
I use it for definitions and occasionally spelling.  Mainly
as a reference when I'm reading.
  -Joe


>>I'm using the Random House Unabridged [no version number]. Takes
>>about 50 meg on the hd (which doesn't include pronunciation
>>files). Was a trial and error setup to get the right files copied
>>to my TP from the CD. Only complaint is that the hotkey callup
>>routine from WordPerfect doesn't load the highlighted word into the
>>lookup window. Comes with the hard cover five inch thick tome, and
>>the 50 megs of files seems to contain every word. Costs about $70.
>>
>>At 1:00 10 Jun 96, you wrote:
>>
>>> My ThinkPad 701C does not have a CDROM, but it does have plenty
>>> of disk space.  Is there a good English dictionary I can buy
>>> (preferably with pronounciations of all the words) which can
>>> be installed onto the hard drive (if need be, I have a CDROM
>>> on my desktop and can transfer the install from there)?  The
>>> salespeople at my local computer stores are less than knowledgeable.