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Re: Capitilization and OSX dictionary
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Re: Capitilization and OSX dictionary


  • Subject: Re: Capitilization and OSX dictionary
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 23:26:44 +0100

Matthew Stuckwisch wrote:

>I'm stealing a random word from OSX's dictionary ;-)
>Its got over 230 000 words, return delimitted, not to mention I'm joining
>the single words dictionary with the two words+ one (/usr/shared/dict/web2[
>a]) and that's questionable if AS could do that one. Even if AS could
>theoretically handle it, the memory part as you mentioned would be
>horrendous.

I'm quite sure AS can handle it. I've used AS to chew through multi-MB
postscript files in the past; I don't see why you should have problems
here. As for memory consumption, that'll be an issue with whatever
scripting language you use. But with half-gig memory and fifty-gig drives
these days, how big an issue will this really be?


>> If you're partially using Perl already, why don't you use it for the
>> entire job?
>
>I didn't say I knew perl now did it? ;-)


Well then, why not stick with AS? It'll do the job fine. (Just don't do
anything silly with million-item lists and you won't get hurt.;)

has

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