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LinguaLinks Workshops
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Current version: 5.0, released May 2003

Service Bulletins

Version 5.0

Version 4.0

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Service Bulletin LLW40-20030714-1

LinguaLinks 4.0 patches and .exell update

LinguaLinks 4.0 Workshops

These updates address a variety of issues in LinguaLinks Workshops 4.0. This update consists of four files:

Cellar.exell Fixes a bug that sometimes, when users paste text into text boxes, the text that appears in the text boxes is not actually added to the knowledge base
loadMeFirst .clr Is required for installing all LinguaLinks Patch files (.llp )
secondPart.llp Installs a series of patches that have been combined into this file
thirdPart.llp

Installs a second series of patches, including new lexical relations for the Koine Greek Dictionary and the English Lexical Database

Caution: This update is for LinguaLinks 4.0 only.

Installation

Check to see if you are running Version 4.0

  1. Go to Help ... About LinguaLinks Workshops.
  2. In About LinguaLinks Workshops, look under the title.
    Warning:
    Do not load any of the patches described in this Service Bulletin if it does not say Version 3.5r–6 May 99, or Version 4.0–14 Dec 99 or later. Do not load this patch to Version 5.0.

Install the .exell update

  1. Exit LinguaLinks Workshops.
  2. Click this link, cellar.exe, to launch the executable zip file.
  3. Click Open.
    Result:
    Cellar.exell will unzip to your C:\linglink\cellar directory, overwriting your old cellar.exell file.

Set up LinguaLinks for installing .llp patch files

  1. Click this link, patches.exe to launch the executable zip file.
  2. Click Open
  3. Result: patches.exe will unzip by default into C:\linglink\cellar\patches\.
  4. Start LinguaLinks Workshops.
  5. With the Workshop Explorer pane active, choose File...Import.
  6. In the Import dialog box, choose Project.
  7. Click File.
  8. In the "Select Cellar dump file to import" dialog, open loadMeFirst.clr in the directory where you unzipped this file.
  9. In the Import dialog box, click OK.

Import the .llp patch files

  1. Open the Workshop Explorer window.
  2. Select File...Import.
  3. In the Import dialog box, choose "Project or Patch."
  4. Click File.
  5. In "Select Cellar dump file to import," open secondPart.llp and click OK.
  6. When the message concerning the function of the patch is displayed, click Yes.
  7. After secondPart.llp has finished loading, repeat steps 1 to 6 to import thirdPart.llp.

Tip: After installing the patches, you may delete the \patches directory.

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Technical support information and contacts

Technical support is available for licensed users. Please include your Registration Number or License Number with any requests. These may be found on

E-mail:

HelpDesk_LinguaLinks@sil.org

Post:

International Academic Bookstore
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road
Dallas, TX 75236 USA

Tel.:

+ 1 972 708 7468

Fax:

+ 1 972 708 7363