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QUICK START
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17 May 93
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Copy all the files on all the disks to a folder on your hard disk
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(make sure you have at two (4) megabytes of free space on
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your hard disk for each disk of Moby product).
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Change your current directory ('CD') to that folder,
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type BUILD and press (enter).
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The files that are extracted may be viewed and edited by
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any capable text-editor, such as Microsoft Word 5.x.
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Moby (tm) Words II Documentation Notes
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This documentation, the software and/or database are:
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Copyright (c) 1988-93, Grady Ward. All Rights Reserved.
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3449 Martha Ct.
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Arcata, CA 95521-4884 USA
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(707) 826-7715 (voice/24-hr 7 day FAX)
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grady@netcom.com
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License Agreement
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This documentation, software and/or database was developed
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and copyrighted by Grady Ward and is licensed, not sold, to
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you on a non-exclusive, non-transferable basis. The documentation,
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software and/or database and derivative works of this database
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may not be copied in whole or part except for archival purposes
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as provided by law. If you have purchased the commercial license,
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Grady Ward explicitly grants you the limited right to create and
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market data structures or knowledge bases derived this work
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without further payment of a license fee, as long as the purpose
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and effect of that data structure or knowledge base is other than
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re-distributing that Grady Ward data structure or database. (In
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other words, you can freely distribute data structures based upon
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any or all of this work as long as you take reasonable care to
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prevent unlicensed persons and organizations from accessing
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the ASCII source.)
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Willful copyright violations are both a civil and a criminal offense [17USC500]
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Disclaimer of Warranty
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This documentation, software and/or database is sold "as is"
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and without express or implied warranties as to performance
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or merchantability for a particular purpose.The user is advised
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to test the documentation, software and/or database thoroughly
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before relying on it. The user assumes the entire risk of using
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this documentation, software and/or database and any liability
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of seller or manufacturer will be limited to product replacement
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or refund of the license fee.
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Moby (tm) Words II for the MSDOS operating system is compressed
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and distributed on two 1.4MB double-sided diskettes. After
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self-extraction, the vocabulary files included with this product
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are in ordinary ASCII format with CRLF (ASCII 13/10) delimiters.
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MOBY WORDS II CONTENTS
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354,984 single words
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Over 354,000 single words, excluding proper names, acronyms,
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or compound words and phrases. This list does not exclude archaic
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words or significant variant spellings.
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256,772 compound words
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Over 256,700 hyphenated or other entries containing more
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than one word as well as all capitalized words and acronyms.
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Phrases were considered 'common' if they or variations of them
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occur in standard dictionaries or thesauruses.
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113,809 official crosswords
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A list of words permitted in crossword games such as Scrabble(tm).
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Compatible with the first edition of the Official Scrabble Players
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Dictionary(tm). Since this list has all forms: -ing, -ed, -s, and so on
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of words, it makes a good addition when building a custom spelling dictionary.
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4,160 official crosswords delta
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When combined with the 113,809 crosswords file, it produces the
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official crossword list compatible with the second edition of the
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Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. (Scrabble is a registered
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trademark of Milton-Bradley licensed to Merriam-Webster.)
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74,550 common dictionary words
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A list of words in common with two or more published dictionaries.
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This gives the developer of a custom spelling checker a good beginning
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pool of relatively common words.
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21,986 names
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This database contains the most common names used in the
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United States and Great Britain. Spelling checkers may want to
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supplement their basic word list with this one.
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4,946 female names
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frequent given names of females in English speaking countries
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3,897 male names
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frequent given names of males in English speaking countries
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10,196 places
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a large selection of place names in the United States
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1,000 by frequency
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This file consists of the 1,000 most frequently used
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English words from a wide variety of common texts listed
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in decreasing order of frequency
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1,000 by frequency internet
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This file consists of the 1,000 most frequently used
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English words as used on the Internet computer network in 1992.
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6,213 acronyms
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common acronyms & abbreviations
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1,185 King James Version frequent substrings
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The most frequently occurring 1,185 substrings in the King James
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Version Bible ranked and counted by order of frequency.
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467 current fiction substrings
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The most frequently occurring 467 substrings occurring in a
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best-selling novel by Amy Tan in 1990.
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USA Constitution
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The Constitution of the United States, including the Bill of Rights
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and all amendments current to 1993.
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NOTE: Accents have been stripped from words, e.g., 'etude'
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does not mark the accent on the initial 'e'.
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