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EyesWideOpen
05-03-2001, 04:58 PM
Anyone know anything about about .dct files? I was looking at my Networdz (http://www.google.com/search?q=networdz) (a Scrabble board game) installation in Windows and noticed that there were .dct files; I'm assuming these are the files that hold the dictionary of terms. I would like to try to write a text-version Scrabble game (pro'ly in Perl) and was wondering if I could somehow parse these files.

Or maybe someone knows where there might be files like this that I could use...

MrNewbie
05-03-2001, 05:14 PM
Well whats in them? Can you post a sample of what they contain? If its plain text is should be easy to parse.

EyesWideOpen
05-04-2001, 10:58 AM
The file (http://cams88.tripod.com/ospd3.dct) is in some binary format, not text. So I can't parse through it like I would a text file.

EyesWideOpen
05-07-2001, 09:34 AM
bump.

EyesWideOpen
05-07-2001, 01:08 PM
Nevermind. I just realized that I don't actually need an entire dictionary but just a list of the allowable words. I found that in a text file. :rolleyes:

Thanks anyway. ;)