Word 5 grammar and spelling compression bug?

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From: Marvin Minsky
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:09

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Thanks again for several suggestions about apparent superclock 3.9.1 crashes.
Yes, 3.9.1 is innocent The bug went away when I reloaded the system.

But, later Norton 2.0 told me that I had a "link" type error because
the Word 5.0 Command "U.S. English Dictionary had gotten overlapped
with Desktop DB and DF.  Perhaps this caussd the bug.  Anyway, there
seems to be something gravely wrong with how MS compresses that
command and also the U.S. English Grammar command.  The problem is
that Disk Doubler gets confused by them -- and although there is an
error warning, evidently something gets copied into a wrong place.

By the way, Word 5's Spelling system is really good!  It almost always
guesses right.  Word 4's version was worse than our early 1970s
Stanford "Spell" program.  And the Grammar command (attributed to
Haughton Mifflin) isn't bad either.

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