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Scribble Dictionary Speedup
If you have every tried using Scribble's built-in dictionary on a large
document, you probably found that it takes to long and grinds your disk
drive. As a solution I moved the dictionary to RamDisk. Now you can take
a large document and proof it about 10K per minute with no disk access
until the end of the document. This is to update the user dictionary on
the disk if any new words are being added. Since the dictionary resides in
Ram your document files are limited to about 70K on a 512K machine(not a
small file at all).
To use my speedup, transfer these files to your Scribble workdisk. Boot up
your Scribble disk as usual, but before you enter Scribble, double-click on
the Dict2Ram icon. Now enter Scribble and try out the dictionary on any
document. Exit Scribble once your are finished with the session. Now you
added new words to the user dictionary and wish to incorporate them into
the main dictionary double-click the Dict2Disk icon. If you only wish to
restore the dictionary to it's normal and slow disk based mode,
double-click the FreeRam icon.
This upgrade uses Pete Goodeve's Xicon utility to run a batch file when you
select the icons. Many thanks to Pete for this handy program. Dictionary
speedup is entirely public domain so feel free to pass it along to your
friends.
Jack "Zener" DeKemper
President of the Amiga CHarleston Users Group(ACHUG)
Charleston, South Carolina
803-552-7227