[softwarelist] Re: CrossStar oddity with RISC OS 5.13

On 9 Jan 2008  David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <5481115e4f.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dr Peter Young
> <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>I get a list of solutions which starts appropriately, and then further
>>down the list (usually from about words starting with "l") words which
>>increasingly have no relation to the letters in the grid, either in
>>number or in relevance to the three letters I have typed. The real
>>oddity is that if I do exactly the same in VRPC running 4.02 (David, I
>>hope it's OK to have it on both machines!), same version and same
>>dictionaries, it all comes out quite correctly.

> I wonder if the dictionaries have become corrupted. Going way back there
> were bugs in the code for handling dictionaries. So you might copy the
> dictionaries from the system that works to the one that doesn't.

Brilliant, Sir, you are a genius! Done that and it works. And I was 
even able to save out all the words I had added to the (presumably 
corrupt) dictionary, load them into OPro and spell-check them back 
into the uncorrupted dictionary.

Many thanks,

With best wishes,

Peter.

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