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681 Lorraine Gordon
eurokrankie Send Email
Feb 9, 2008
5:27 pm
Hi there Can anyone help? Have just started using Zyzzyva, and would like to create my own word lists, which I could then use to quiz myself. Is this...
682 Jim Caughran
caughran40 Send Email
Feb 9, 2008
9:05 pm
... You can create word lists by selecting a set of criteria -- word length, some letters, etc etc -- in the search section. To make these into a quiz, ...
683 Lorraine Gordon
eurokrankie Send Email
Feb 9, 2008
11:01 pm
Thanks for the help Jim. Could I ask for some further assistance?! I just want to know how to (for example) make up a list of 4-letter words omitting or ...
684 Jim Caughran
caughran40 Send Email
Feb 10, 2008
2:27 am
... From the search panel, you can save a word list, then edit out the words you know by hand. In the cardbox quiz, a right-click gives you an option to delete...
685 Jon Moss
mossjon Send Email
Feb 28, 2008
10:08 pm
I would also like the ability to run reports from the cardbox database information. I'm just beginning my study of words in preparation for a local tournament...
686 Kevin Turner
scrabblephreak Send Email
Feb 29, 2008
3:01 am
Here's a simple Windows-based set of instructions for accessing the Zyzzyva database via SQL: 1. Download *SQLite 3* for Windows (precompiled binary): ...
687 trevor_halsall Send Email Mar 12, 2008
4:22 pm
Am dying to use Zyzzyva on my new Eee, but can't quite work out how to run the installer! I've saved it in a directory. Double-clicking on it just results in...
688 John O'Laughlin
johnaolaughlin Send Email
Mar 12, 2008
5:34 pm
Trevor, http://zyzzyva.net/packages/Zyzzyva-1.0.6-linux-installer.bin is self-extracting, but when you download a file like that from the web, it won't be...
689 Trevor Halsall
trevor_halsall Send Email
Mar 13, 2008
9:42 pm
Thanks for this John. It did seem to install. However it¶ not apparent where to go from here. In the folder there¶ a zyzzyva file - I click on it and it...
690 Anand Buddhdev
arbuddhdev Send Email
Mar 14, 2008
1:56 pm
On 13/03/2008, Trevor Halsall <trevor_halsall@...> wrote: Thanks for this John. It did seem to install. However it¶ not apparent ... Hi Trevor, The...
691 Michael Thelen
thelenm Send Email
Mar 14, 2008
9:54 pm
... In the next version of Zyzzyva (which I plan to release in the next week or so, for real this time :-), I hope to fix this problem by including the glibc...
692 Richard Johnson
iamoffbyone Send Email
Mar 14, 2008
11:38 pm
Any chance the new version will fix "connecting to database" for several minutes at launch on Win2K? Thanks, OffByOne Richard F. Johnson ... ...
693 Michael Thelen
thelenm Send Email
Mar 15, 2008
12:57 am
... Possibly, but I don't really know. Whatever that is, I think it's a Qt issue, probably not something I can fix myself, sorry. :-( Zyzzyva 1.1.0 will use...
694 Mick de Lange
joh_dl Send Email
Mar 15, 2008
9:12 pm
... I'll try to add what i can, but keep in mind that I'm not a prgrammer so these are user comments ... I use Win2K also. It doesn't take "several minutes",...
695 Ross Brown
awolsp Send Email
Mar 20, 2008
1:01 am
Quick suggestion for Mr. Thelen: While answering a question in Quiz, if I press * (asterisk), the next word entered is to be treated as a phony. That is, I'm...
696 Michael Thelen
thelenm Send Email
Mar 25, 2008
8:06 pm
... I think I have to take this back, at least for now... from what I've been reading, it looks like the simplest and best solution will probably be for Eee...
697 Trevor Halsall
trevor_halsall Send Email
Mar 26, 2008
3:56 pm
Thanks muchly Michael. I have, however, encountered a problem installing QT. I do the following: tar -xzvf qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.2.tar.gzcd...
698 John O'Laughlin
johnaolaughlin Send Email
Mar 26, 2008
4:07 pm
I think you'll get 'make' and the other stuff you need if you install the build-essential package here: ...
699 Michael Thelen
thelenm Send Email
Mar 28, 2008
5:09 am
I've released a new version of Zyzzyva, 2.0.0. Zyzzyva is a program for studying words, practicing anagramming, and adjudicating challenges. It runs on...
700 Tom Conrad
aragorn_the_red Send Email
Mar 28, 2008
1:34 pm
For those on the group that haven't already gone out and gotten version 2.0.0, go do it. You'll be glad you did. For those that have, I was already talking to...
701 Michael Thelen
thelenm Send Email
Mar 28, 2008
5:06 pm
... Thank you for posting this! This problem has been reported by a few people already. I'll be taking a look to see if I can figure out what's happening,...
702 Jim Caughran
caughran40 Send Email
Mar 28, 2008
8:39 pm
... Same problem on Ubuntu 7-10, with some complications. Zyz asked whether to create its database on startup, but then crashed. There was a partial db in...
703 Dallas Johnson
dwjstow Send Email
Mar 28, 2008
8:55 pm
Is it possible to create a wordlist in Zyzzyva that would only contain natural bingos? I am running a tournament in a couple weeks with prizes for the lowest...
704 Michael Thelen
thelenm Send Email
Mar 28, 2008
8:57 pm
... Thanks for the additional information. I can now reproduce this on my own Ubuntu 7.10 machine, and hope to have the problem fixed quickly. Sorry about the...
705 David Steel
david895509 Send Email
Mar 28, 2008
9:06 pm
I'm also experiencing problems using Windows XP. I uninstalled the previous version before downloading and running 2.0. It is not progressing past the initial...
706 Evan Simpson
m28ale Send Email
Mar 28, 2008
9:09 pm
... I think if you don't let it create the database initially and then set your dictionary preferences before building the database(s) you should be ok. Hope...
707 Mick de Lange
joh_dl Send Email
Mar 28, 2008
9:53 pm
Hi. I'd do it in excel, not sure if you can do it in zyzzyva. Give me 10 minutes and I'll do it for you, I'll email you some text files of all the 7 & 8 letter...
708 Kevin Turner
scrabblephreak Send Email
Mar 28, 2008
11:32 pm
On my XP machine I had the same problem. But after uninstalling 2.0, clearing the application directory, clearing the data directory under my profile, and...
709 Michael Thelen
thelenm Send Email
Mar 29, 2008
7:27 am
... I believe I've fixed the problem, and I've assembled a crack team of testers across various operating systems to see whether that's true. If so, Zyzzyva...
710 Michael Thelen
thelenm Send Email
Mar 29, 2008
7:54 am
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 12:39 AM, busker221@... ... Thanks for these suggestions, and I'm sorry it's taken me so long to respond to them. ... This...
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