Mobysaurus (freeware)

[Anderson]

Hi everybody

I have been working on a thesaurus program since 3 weeks ago and just
uploaded it onto the web. I wish I could give it away freely to many
people in my university (MQ, AUS) sometime without troubling anyone,
so thanks in advance if someone could offer me some advice.

Here's something about it:

Mobysaurus is a free English thesaurus software package that integrates
Grady Ward's Moby Thesaurus II and Roget's Thesaurus (Gutenberg's
public version)

Over 31,000 main entry word lists and well over 2.5 million synonyms.
All databases are unabridged. All contents are fully searchable

Automatic highlighting makes it very easy for any user to pick out
desired synonyms.

Wildcard search supported.



HOMEPAGE

http://computers.net4free.org/moby/


Takes 4MB to download, 30MB to install, requires Microsoft .NET
Framework.

MD5 code: B9AB44B02599DCD85FA77E9E8B1A6DDA


Sincerely,
Anderson

 

[FTR]

Hi everybody

I have been working on a thesaurus program since 3 weeks ago and just
uploaded it onto the web. I wish I could give it away freely to many
people in my university (MQ, AUS) sometime without troubling anyone,
so thanks in advance if someone could offer me some advice.

Here's something about it:

Mobysaurus is a free English thesaurus software package that integrates
Grady Ward's Moby Thesaurus II and Roget's Thesaurus (Gutenberg's
public version)

Over 31,000 main entry word lists and well over 2.5 million synonyms.
All databases are unabridged. All contents are fully searchable

Automatic highlighting makes it very easy for any user to pick out
desired synonyms.

Wildcard search supported.



HOMEPAGE

http://computers.net4free.org/moby/


Takes 4MB to download, 30MB to install, requires Microsoft .NET
Framework.

MD5 code: B9AB44B02599DCD85FA77E9E8B1A6DDA


Sincerely,
Anderson

I dont understand : why do I have to download
http://rapidshare.de/files/8616181/moby12setup.exe.html to download the
thesaurus ? Does anyone on the list know rapidshare and can recommand it ?

Frank

 

[J-Walker]

It's a free/premium file hosting service, and that is where Anderson
has stored the program for others to download from.

I've used a Rapid Sharing, another free file hosting service, and it
worked just fine.

 

[MLC]

domenica 4 dicembre 2005 FTR ha scritto:

I dont understand : why do I have to download
http://rapidshare.de/files/8616181/moby12setup.exe.html to download the
thesaurus ? Does anyone on the list know rapidshare and can recommand it ?

I just downloaded it without problems.
moby12setup.exe is the thesaurus install file, moby12setup.exe.html is the
rapidshare page where the file is downloadable. Just click on the "free"
button and type the letters that you see.

 

[David]

Hi everybody

I have been working on a thesaurus program since 3 weeks ago and just
uploaded it onto the web. I wish I could give it away freely to many
people in my university (MQ, AUS) sometime without troubling anyone,
so thanks in advance if someone could offer me some advice.

Here's something about it:

Mobysaurus is a free English thesaurus software package that integrates
Grady Ward's Moby Thesaurus II and Roget's Thesaurus (Gutenberg's
public version)

Over 31,000 main entry word lists and well over 2.5 million synonyms.
All databases are unabridged. All contents are fully searchable

Automatic highlighting makes it very easy for any user to pick out
desired synonyms.

Wildcard search supported.



HOMEPAGE

http://computers.net4free.org/moby/


Takes 4MB to download, 30MB to install, requires Microsoft .NET
Framework.

Sounds good but that last requirement stops me.
--
David
Remove "farook" to reply
At the bottom of the application where it says
"sign here". I put "Sagittarius"
E-mail: justdas at iinet dot net dot au

 

[J-Walker]

Sounds good but that last requirement stops me.

Why?

 

[Anderson]

Well, just download the .Net framework from M$'s site, easy for
anyone...

 

[Anderson]

Sorry i didn't know Rapidshare might be bothering people, I've just put
a guide onto my page, hoping that would help a little bit.

 

[David]

Why?

Because I do not want .net cluttering up my system. It's already slow
enough.
--
David
Remove "farook" to reply
At the bottom of the application where it says
"sign here". I put "Sagittarius"
E-mail: justdas at iinet dot net dot au

 

[David]

Well, just download the .Net framework from M$'s site, easy for
anyone...

No!
--
David
Remove "farook" to reply
At the bottom of the application where it says
"sign here". I put "Sagittarius"
E-mail: justdas at iinet dot net dot au

 

[J-Walker]

Sorry i didn't know Rapidshare might be bothering people, I've just put
a guide onto my page, hoping that would help a little bit.

No problem here. Thanks for developing a very useful application. )

 

[Anderson]

Thanks for your nice support, J-Walker

I got notified by a few users via email that there were some errors in
the database, largely inherited from Gutenberg's version of Roget's
(like "int he" and "in the", etc.), so I set aside a couple of hours to
have them corrected. I've just uploaded the latest version 1.25.

In v1.25, type "titles" or "roget's" in the look-up bar will return the
whole table of contents of Roget's Thesaurus. I thought this might be a
useful function since you'd have an index at hand.

 

[J-Walker]

Okay, super! Downloaded the latest release.

Thanks again, Anderson.

 

[Mike]

Hi everybody

I have been working on a thesaurus program since 3 weeks ago and just
uploaded it onto the web. I wish I could give it away freely to many
people in my university (MQ, AUS) sometime without troubling anyone,
so thanks in advance if someone could offer me some advice.

Here's something about it:

Mobysaurus is a free English thesaurus software package that integrates
Grady Ward's Moby Thesaurus II and Roget's Thesaurus (Gutenberg's
public version)

Over 31,000 main entry word lists and well over 2.5 million synonyms.
All databases are unabridged. All contents are fully searchable

Automatic highlighting makes it very easy for any user to pick out
desired synonyms.

Wildcard search supported.



HOMEPAGE

http://computers.net4free.org/moby/


Takes 4MB to download, 30MB to install, requires Microsoft .NET
Framework.

MD5 code: B9AB44B02599DCD85FA77E9E8B1A6DDA


Sincerely,
Anderson

V1.5 works just fine on my laptop. And the database is impressive
indeed. Thanks for the offer.

BTW, will it ever *remain* free? I got free synonym finders here all
which "suck until paid"...