Xref: utzoo soc.culture.german:1538 comp.sys.next:8346
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!camex!circus!geoff
From: geoff@circus.camex.com (Geoffrey Knauth)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german,comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Need computerized German/English dictionary
Keywords: computerized dictionaries
Message-ID: <1555@camex.COM>
Date: 5 Oct 90 17:58:37 GMT
References: <4692@tahoe.unr.edu>
Sender: news@Camex.COM
Reply-To: geoff@circus.UUCP (Geoffrey Knauth)
Distribution: na
Organization: Camex Inc., Boston, MA
Lines: 16

In article <4692@tahoe.unr.edu> bryan@tahoe.unr.edu (Bryan Wolf) writes:
>Does anyone know of a German-English / English-German dictionary program
>available for DOS or UNIX machines.  I need something to help speed up
>my translations (Looking stuff up by hand is awfully slow!).

I would like to see the equivalent of NeXT's Digital Webster for
foreign languages (Russian, German, and French top my list).  I want
to see native language dictionaries as well as bilingual ones.  I
think dictionary makers guard their word lists jealously, and
electronic distribution scares them, otherwise I don't understand why
such products are so rare, or, with the exception of Digital Webster,
so poor.

        Geoffrey S. Knauth                           geoff@camex.com
    Camex, Inc., 75 Kneeland St.                     geoff%camex@uunet.uu.net
Boston, MA 02111, (617) 426-3577 x451                --standard disclaimers--