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OS923:
About the MacWrite/ClarisWorks dictionaries.
The bytes are distributed like in natural language, so they probably use a substitution table like 224=a, 198=b and so on.
Bytes 0-10 are probably codes.
That's all that I could find.

MacTron:

--- Quote from: OS923 on April 15, 2016, 07:03:51 AM ---About the MacWrite/ClarisWorks dictionaries.
The bytes are distributed like in natural language, so they probably use a substitution table like 224=a, 198=b and so on.
Bytes 0-10 are probably codes.
That's all that I could find.

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Thank You very much. MacWrite is my favorite word processor up to date. Long time a go I have started a unfructuous  :'(  project to try to expand the language dictionaries available for it. May be some day I'll recover the project again.

OS923:
Can you see where the words start or end or do you know the number of words?

MacTron:

--- Quote from: OS923 on April 15, 2016, 09:45:00 AM ---Can you see where the words start or end or do you know the number of words?

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No I can't. I only know that those dictionaries were made by Xerox and Microlytics and the resource fork are near the same. The main differences are in the data fork. But I can't find it's structure ...

OS923:
It's called SpellFinder 2. It's in a code resource. Every dictionary has its own encoding. The English dictionary has 100,000 entries. As far as I can see with Zone ranger it doesn't read the entire dictionary into memory. With a program which can trace file reads or SetFPos you could find the start of the words.

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