Hi Don
Thanks for the reply. Maybe I was terse and apologise to all.
The Dictionary is only 568KB in total size and at the moment is in plain text format which is the way I tried to get hal to learn it, through the "learn from text file" option. I have uploaded a lot of files through this option, Philosophy, Composer's biographies, Artists, Einstein, Quotations etc. Nearly two MBs in all. Hal does seem to learn from them and names people and and subjects from them, i.e. "Let us talk about Plato" etc. To be honest I have no idea of the complexity in getting hal to respond to questions like, "what does the word ******** mean" or "define **********" I also do not know how much information Hal is able to take. Can he just continue to add to his brain as long as the computer has the room and power to take it? As you can see I am full of questions, but low on answers.
Thanks for the help though and will try your suggestion and anything else that I am capable of doing.
Best wishes
Joe.
