10-03-15 10:57 NANCY BACKUS wrote to ED VANCE about Re: Rubaiyat  was: Old mo

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 -=> Quoting Ed Vance to Nancy Backus on 10-01-15  00:44 <=-
Howdy! Nancy,
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 NB>> I'm using an old-fashioned hard-cover paper-pages book.. ;)  A
 NB>> large volume entitled The Living Webster Encyclopedic
 NB>> Dictionary of the English Language...  Not quite an unabridged,
 NB>> but close... ;)

 EV> I have a Unabridged Dictionary, sections of it were sold each week at
 EV> a grocery store my family shopped at and I got all the parts and
 EV> covers put together.
 EV> I used to use it often, but now I mostly use WordWeb on the XP pc.

 NB> One tends to use what is close at hand...  Mine is here by the
 NB> computer, and I don't do web stuff much... :)

WordWeb is a Offline Dictionary/Thesaurus.

 EV> The Free edition can be used if a person doesn't make more than a few
 EV> trips by airplane, iirc 2 or 3 a year.

 NB> What does flying have to do with using a web dictionary...?  Is
 NB> is some indication of whether or not one might be using it for
 NB> business...?

Their TOS(FreeLicense) talks about a connection with traveling by air
and greenhouse gas.

WordWeb is a Windows Program, It'd be nice if they had a DOS version.

The Online Bible used to have versions for DOS and Windows.

It really blew my mind how fast it would display all the references
for a word that I search for when I first used the DOS v2.11 OLB I got
on 5 1/4" floppy disks back in 1993.

ZAP BOOM, In my face! after I pressed the Enter Key.

I still use OLB DOS v6.11 on this XP box more than I do the copy of OLB
v4.40 for Windows for looking up words and phrases, because the DOS
version is easier for me to use.

I like the Windows OLB too, it has some things that's not in the their
DOS 6.11 version (C)1994.

I use a Limited Users Account on this XP box and to use OLB for Windows
I have to run it as an administrator.
It just won't appear correctly when I double-click on it's desktop icon
in this account.
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 NB> ... Being normal isn't one of my weaknesses.

I can identify with that Tagline.......SWIPE........Thank You!

I've been trying to substitute the word "regular" when I talk about
someting being "normal" for me.   

Ed

... Sigh.  You caught me in the only mistake I have ever made ever.
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