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INSTALLING THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, SECOND
EDITION ON CD-ROM DATA FILE ONTO A HARD DRIVE,
USING VERSION 1.10 (NOT VERSION 1.13+) OF OED SOFTWARE
      ^^^^^^^ ^^^^
The CD-ROM contains one file, OED2.DAT, which is approximately
640 Mb.  To install the OED2 data file on your hard drive, you must
have at least 640 Mb free in one contiguous block on a hard drive.  You
may want to use a disk utility program to optimize your hard drive to
insure that 640 Mb is available in one contiguous block.

WINDOWS VERSION

1.  Change the volume of the hard disk to OED2.  You may use the OS
volume command: LABEL C:OED2 (where C is the letter assigned to
your hard disk)

2.  Using DOS or FILE MANAGER, copy the OED2.DAT to the root
directory, of your hard drive.  The file cannot be located in a sub
directory.  Also, you cannot change the name of this file.

3.  Install the software from the diskette, as instructed in the manual
remembering that the OED2.DAT file is now stored on your hard disk).

4.  Edit the OED.INI file (found in the \WINDOWS directory) to read:

[data]
Filename=C:\

where C: is the letter assigned to the hard disk


MACINTOSH VERSION

1.  Name the hard disk OED2

2.  Copy the file OED2.DAT straight onto the hard disk.  The file cannot
be stored in a folder. Also, you cannot change the name of this file.

3.  Install the software from the diskette as instructed in the manual.

Note:  If your hard drive is partitioned into logical drives, the partition in
which you store the OED2.DAT file must be named OED2 and have at
least 640 Mb of free contiguous space.

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