DESCRIPTION
This is "Ding"
- A dictionary lookup program for Unix
- DIctionary Nice Grep
- A Tk based Front-End to [ae]grep, ispell, dict, ...
- Ding {n} :: thing
Ding contains a program "ding" and a German-English dictionary (about 180,000 entries).
COPYRIGHT / LICENSE
Copyright (c) Frank Richter <frank.richter@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> 1999 - 2005
Distributed under the GNU public license (GPL), see file "COPYING" for
details
Ding comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
INSTALL
To install it on Linux (RPM based, such as Fedora, Red Hat, SuSE):
% rpm -Uhv ding-1.4-1.noarch.rpm
or use SuSE-YaST's package installer if they have Ding on their CDs.
To install it on other Unix systems:
% gzip -dc ding-1.4.tar.gz | tar -xvf - % cd ding-1.4
Then simply run (as root, if you want to install in system directories): % ./install.sh;
To install it manually:
Edit ding and change some options explained there, esp. the location of the dictionary file.
% cp ding /your/bin/dir
% cp de-en.txt /your/lib/dir
You may install the icons and / or KDE/Gnome applnk files to make "ding" available to your window managers.
I hope you will enjoy "ding"!
DICTIONARY
The German-English dictionary file "ger-eng.txt" has been maintained
over the last ten years. All your comments are welcome. In fact,
your questions, comments, corrections, and new words are the source
where this dictionary evolves from. Keep them going...
Beware: I tried my best, but accuracy is not guaranteed!
For news ("der letzte Stand der Dinge") see http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/
Thanks to all of you who helped to improve this dictionary, thanks to the Tcl/Tk and all Open Source Software developers!
Frank Richter <frank.richter@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>