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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re:  How to make a mulit-lingual dictionary?
Message-ID: <1177@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 91 06:29:08 GMT
References: <51684@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1154@cbmger.UUCP> <frank.4538@morpheus.UUCP>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <frank.4538@morpheus.UUCP> frank@morpheus.UUCP (Frank McPherson) writes:
>In article <1154@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>>In article <51684@nigel.ee.udel.edu> PYC118@uriacc.uri.edu (Rasiel) writes:
>>>I would like to know how to go about making a program which would translate
>>>an english word to any of several languages.
>>
>	<SOME BASIC CODE DELETED>
>>
>>I say, Basic is easy.
>
>One thing you may want to consider if you want to just translate words is
>using Lisp.

Oh, you take the BIG gun... :-)

Now that some days have passed, I can even propose a *much* simpler idea:
Why not simply use plain AmigaDOS? If you don't really need a nice
user interface, then the c:search command will do all for you.
Just put all your words in an ASCII file like this:

one eins un
two zwei deux
house Haus maison

Then you can issue the search command:  search vocab_file two
A special advantage is that you can search the other way round (give a
foreign word and retrieve the english one) with the *same* command.
And to make it really simple to use, you can make up a tiny AmigaDOS
script file in s: (name it "voc") like this:

.key word
search [path]vocab_file <word>

Finally give it a "protect s:voc +s", and then you can search for any
word with simply:

voc myword

Now, also AmigaDOS is easy.

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Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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