Re: looking for Oxford English Dictionary..

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 1988 20:29

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In article <2348@cs.Buffalo.EDU> ugptucha@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Ray Ptucha) writes:
>Does anyone have a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary that 
>I could ftp?   I really have wanted one online for quite a
>while now...

Uh, you realize that it's 400+ megabytes?

I very much doubt that anyone can make it available for FTP without
violating the copyright, and the copyright owners would probably take
this seriously, given that they plan a new edition and are still selling
the old one.
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