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797 yggnoramus Send Email Jul 2, 2008
9:25 pm
I'm trying to install Zyzzyva on a secondhand laptop with SuSE Linux 6.1. When I execute the installer I get an "error in loading shared libraries: undefined...
798 Anand Buddhdev
arbuddhdev Send Email
Jul 2, 2008
9:32 pm
... Hi Wes, SuSE Linux 6.1 is too old, and is most likely missing the necessary library files that Zyzzyva needs. You'll need to upgrade to a newer version of...
799 Reid Priedhorsky
u2_634 Send Email
Jul 3, 2008
4:28 am
... That said, you may be able to compile it from source using your existing SuSE 6.1. I haven't tried this or investigated it, but you should at least do the...
800 Kevin Turner
scrabblephreak Send Email
Jul 3, 2008
1:26 pm
I've posted a HOW-TO document on this at: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dk4gxkg_4hsng5qd7...
801 Luise Shafritz
lushaf Send Email
Jul 3, 2008
1:52 pm
Here's another "newbie-to-zyzzyva" question: Is there a way to print out search results on paper? I used to be able to do that with maven in the old days but...
802 Kevin Turner
scrabblephreak Send Email
Jul 3, 2008
3:52 pm
I don't believe that Zyzzva is capable of printing but its very easy to create and save a list that you can print in MS Word or Notepad or whatever text editor...
803 Mick de Lange
joh_dl Send Email
Jul 4, 2008
5:14 am
Can the pattern match be set to NOT ... Say I want to search for all 7-letter words that include the letters ING but don't end in ING, how would I go about it?...
804 Geoff Cooper
geoffcooperdn17 Send Email
Jul 4, 2008
6:29 am
... Thank you for your excellent work Kevin. I now have a series of printouts to give to a colleague who has Zyzzyva but is not yet online. -- Geoff Cooper...
805 Nick Deller
nickdelleruk Send Email
Jul 4, 2008
12:35 pm
I've found a two-stage solution that works, though it's slightly inelegant: 1) Create the list of unwanted words, by searching on the single criterion Pattern...
806 Evan Simpson
m28ale Send Email
Jul 4, 2008
12:50 pm
... I also used the same slightly inelegant technique and couldn't find a better method. Cheers Ev...
807 Kevin Turner
scrabblephreak Send Email
Jul 4, 2008
1:15 pm
Try this: Length: 7-7 Include: ING Pattern: *[^I][^N][^G] 442 words found The caret symbol (^) immediately after the opening square bracket will search for all...
808 Evan Simpson
m28ale Send Email
Jul 4, 2008
1:22 pm
... Nice: How about Anagram Match: ????ING Pattern Match: ????[^I][^N][^G] with one less search criterion. 656 words for the full-fat dictionary. Cheers Ev PS...
809 Nick Deller
nickdelleruk Send Email
Jul 4, 2008
1:29 pm
Good try, but not quite right - that'll knock out anything that has ANY of I in 5th, N in 6th or G in 7th, so words like AGNAILS wrongly get excluded. Nick D. ...
810 Kevin Turner
scrabblephreak Send Email
Jul 4, 2008
2:04 pm
Damn.. thought I had it. ;)...
811 Kevin Turner
scrabblephreak Send Email
Jul 4, 2008
2:26 pm
... I agree.. it should be good! Perhaps the next update will include REGEX, and maybe these ones too... GOOGLE to perform an online search [v -GLED, -GLING,...
812 Richard Johnson
iamoffbyone Send Email
Jul 4, 2008
7:48 pm
After you have generated a list using search. right-click anywhere in the list.  One of the options is to save the list.  That choice allows you to specify...
813 Richard Johnson
iamoffbyone Send Email
Jul 4, 2008
8:12 pm
There may be an easier way, but this should work.   First, generate a list of all sevens ending in ING, then save the list, noting its name and location.   ...
814 Richard Johnson
iamoffbyone Send Email
Jul 4, 2008
8:23 pm
This method exludes words like ANGLICE which meets the OP's requirement of having G, I, and N in it but not ending in "ING."   The two-step method also...
815 home2staywith2 Send Email Jul 5, 2008
3:37 pm
Although I don't know of an easy way to get Notepad to do columns, you can also open the .txt file generated by Zyzzyva into a fancier word processing program...
816 timzter_too Send Email Jul 7, 2008
8:04 pm
How do I update the word list in the Zyzzyva program to keep abreast with the latest playable Scrabble words? I am running Zyzzyva version 1.0.5. Do I have...
817 timzter_too Send Email Jul 7, 2008
8:04 pm
Is there a way in Zyzzyva to get anagrams of a string of letters such that you want certain letters fixed in place? For example, the anagrams for "AEGINRR"...
818 Richard Johnson
iamoffbyone Send Email
Jul 7, 2008
8:18 pm
You can do this with two criteria: the first is what you already have; click Add to add another criterion.  For the second one, cloose Pattern, then type...
819 Kevin Turner
scrabblephreak Send Email
Jul 7, 2008
10:39 pm
You really should update your copy of Zyzzyva to the latest version, which, as of this writing, is 2.0.2. There's are a lot of useful new features added and...
820 Jim Miller
yohocoma Send Email
Jul 12, 2008
6:57 pm
I've noticed with 2.02 under Vista 64 that minimizing Zizz won't take with it all the child windows created, specifically windows, after the first one, created...
821 Graham Bonham
graham101ia Send Email
Jul 13, 2008
10:58 pm
In the Sqlite 3 databases (.db files) in the Lexicons folder under .zyzzyva (e.g. CSW.db), I don't currently understand the information in the field...
822 Joseph McGinley
josephmcginley Send Email
Jul 14, 2008
8:39 am
is_front_hook This is 1 [true] for BAA becuase BAA is a front hook of AA. ESTRANGE is a front hook of STRANGE, and UPLINKS is a front hook of PLINKS. ...
823 Joseph McGinley
josephmcginley Send Email
Jul 14, 2008
9:00 am
Of course, I managed a copy/paste error in exactly the right place to cause maximum confusion. Here I'll try again, hopefully this makes more sense: ...
824 Graham Bonham
graham101ia Send Email
Jul 14, 2008
10:55 pm
Thanks very much, Joseph, for the explanation re is_front_hook and for pointing out the feature regarding choosing cardbox after a wrong answer, which I'll...
825 srockhop Send Email Jul 22, 2008
8:28 pm
Hi, I tried to quiz myself using the parameters of Belongs in Group Type I Sevens. The list comes up fine, but when I try to Quiz from List, I get Error...
826 Michael Thelen
thelenm Send Email
Jul 22, 2008
8:43 pm
... Are you using Zyzzyva 2.0.2? I think this error was occurring in 2.0.0 and maybe 2.0.1, but it should be fixed in the latest version. If you still see the...
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