[Dixonary] OT: Word lists available

[Dodi Schultz]

I have lists of all words dealt in Dixonary through the present round--one
list in chronological order, the other alphabetical; words dealt but not
actually played (because they'd been dealt before, or because there were
too many DQs) are included, with that status indicated. The lists, which
are plain text files, include the dealers.

I'll be happy to e-mail them to any player who asks. If you'd like to have
them, let me know.

--Dodi

[Guerri Stevens]

I thought the word lists were being maintained in the Dixonary group. Is
that no longer true?

Guerri

Dodi Schultz wrote:
>
> I have lists of all words dealt in Dixonary through the present round...

[Dodi Schultz]

>> I thought the word lists were being maintained in the Dixonary
>> group. Is that no longer true?

I don't know, Guerri. I do everything Dixonary by e-mail, and I update my
copies of the lists periodically.

--Dodi

[Paul Keating]

Guerri,

JohnnyB maintains the list in the Dixonary group in human-readable form,
with both a .txt extension, which browsers will just display; and a .dix
extension, which is what Dixomatic expects to find, and browsers will offer
to download.

I maintain the list (along with rolling and cumulative scores) in
machine-readable form (zipped .db files) on the Coryphæus support site at
rocketcottage.com. It is not in the Dixonary group (nor the Yahoo group
either) because Google and Yahoo go to a lot of trouble to make it hard to
download files unattended under program control.

Neither of these forms is suitable for players who opt to play the game
exclusively by email.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guerri Stevens" <guerri (AT) tapcis (DOT) com>
Subject: [Dixonary] Re: OT: Word lists available


> I thought the word lists were being maintained in the Dixonary group. Is
that no longer true?

[JohnnyB]

Paul said

>
> Neither of these forms is suitable for players who opt to play the game
exclusively by email.
>

When I first took over the publication of the DIX/TXT files I sent a message
providing a set of links for direct download and offered to send by email.
No-one ever took me up on either of those things so I stopped the message
and merely posted the files

The offer is still there, I will email them upon request

JohnnyB
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[Toni Savage]

I would like the links please... is there a reason not to include them in the announcement?

-- Toni Savage


--- On Sat, 5/2/09, JohnnyB <johnnybarrs (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

> From: JohnnyB <johnnybarrs (AT) gmail (DOT) com>
> Subject: [Dixonary] Re: OT: Word lists available
> To: Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
> Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009, 5:32 PM
>
>
> Paul said
>
> >
> > Neither of these forms is suitable for players who opt
> to play the game
> exclusively by email.
> >
>
> When I first took over the publication of the DIX/TXT files
> I sent a message
> providing a set of links for direct download and offered to
> send by email.
> No-one ever took me up on either of those things so I
> stopped the message
> and merely posted the files
>
> The offer is still there, I will email them upon request
>
> JohnnyB
> No virus found in this outgoing message.
> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
> Version: 8.5.287 / Virus Database: 270.12.7/2085 - Release
> Date: 04/28/09
> 18:02:00
>
>

[Paul Keating]

Toni, there are links in the Google group on Pages | Used word lists. I
think Johnny didn't mention it because they have been there for two years
and he probably assumed--obviously wrongly--that everyone knew that.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

----- Original Message -----
From: "Toni Savage" <tonicsavage (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>
Subject: [Dixonary] Re: OT: Word lists available


> I would like the links please... is there a reason not to include them in
the announcement?