Version 2.0, July 6, 1994

• Excalibur now runs in native mode on a PowerPC.
• Excalibur uses a new dictionary format that greatly speeds up operations in languages other than English.

  You will need to convert any dictionaries you created with a previous version of Excalibur to this new format. Here's the procedure for doing that. (The dictionary we are distributing with Excalibur 2.0 is a new version of the Standard Dictionary.)

  Use your current version of Excalibur (1.x) convert your dictionary to a text file. Then use Excalibur 2.0 to convert that text file back into a dictionary. Don't forget to pay attention to your option settings when creating a new dictionary. For example, if you set the option to treat 's as the end of a word, no words with 's will appear in your dictionary.

  Excalibur 2.0 is smart enough to display an error message if you try to open an old style dictionary. Old versions of Excalibur may crash if you try to open a new style dictionary.

• Excalibur uses temporary memory to open large files and when doing text to dictionary and dictionary to text conversions. This means that if there is enough memory on your machine, you won't have to increase Excalibur's partition size to open a large file or to do a conversion.
• Excalibur has a vastly improved memory management scheme. It should always recover gracefully from a low memory situation.
• Text to dictionary conversions use much less memory. Fixed a few bugs associated with conversions.
• Hitting the Enter key selects the default item in the control dialog.
• Excalibur knows about the SliTeX and seminar.sty versions of the slide environment.
• Excalibur's interaction with Alpha is smoother. If you select Spellcheck Window in Alpha and Excalibur already has a window open, it will close it and spell check the new document. It does this more smoothly now.
• Excalibur uses intelligent suggestions for the new file names when doing conversions. You can customize the strings that Excalibur uses for extensions by changing resource STR# 306.
• The behavior of the Add Word...menu item has changed slightly. Now it adds a word only if it doesn't appear in any other active dictionary. If you would like to add a word to a dictionary even if it appears in another dictionary, hold down the option key when you click on the Add button.
• Various smaller changes.