nicole/doc/original
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The directories contained here are the original source that I wrote
way back in the early 1990's

All the source code was written in Turbo Pascal 7.0 and there is no guarentee
that it will still compile at all anymore. The idea is there though, and that
is the important bit. It will help in the conversion to C/C++

I have also included some of the data files that were present (simple as
they are, if you can decipher them, good luck to you).

M original code was thought to be lost to a virus, but I found them again
on an old rusty (yes.. rusty!!) floppy disk. To be sure that no virii are
here, any EXE files pre-compiled have been removed (they didn't run on my
'DOSEMU' PC anyway).

All the code in these 3 directories are declared as public domain. The
exception to this is the BTree units in Version 2 and Version 3 of NICOLE.
I didn't write them, and I don't know the status of his code(J. W. Rider).

Use my code as you see fit. No warranty or support given.

NICOLE1
	- Version 1.
			Each word had it's own data file - quite messy really.

NICOLE2
	- Version 2.
			Huge improvement. I stored the data into a binary tree. The whole
			database was now in 3 datafiles (as appose to hundreds). No data
			files are included in this copy.
			
NICOLE3
	- Version 3
			This version had two binary trees. One for the dictionary, and the
			other was for the vocabulary (phrases). There were a few bugs in the
			code that I didn't manage to iron out at the time.
			
I hope you enjoy the pascal code contained in this directory.

Cheers,
Phil Howlett.
