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Old 18-08-2008, 11:22 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Damons? Plums?
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| from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:
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| The version of the Larousse Francaise I saw in the Sorbonne was about
| the size of the Shorter Oxford. If OUP weren't such idiots, I and
| lots of other people would buy CD-ROMs of the OED. I haven't got the
| space for the paper version.
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| Why? Is it a king's ransom?

Nah, but it's got an utterly ghastly interface that doesn't allow
the user to do anything like search it, and runs only under an
operating system that is equally bad.

Hmmm.

I wonder if Open Office could be persuaded to open it?

If so, it could be converted to .odt format, saved to disc, and reburnt
onto DVD.

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