-------------------------------------------------------------------- English-Vietnamese Dictionary Limited Edition 1.0b VIET-STD VISCII/VIQR COMPLIANT (C) Copyright Bold Technology, 1994 You may freely distribute this software without disassembling or modifying its content in anyway. -------------------------------------------------------------------- readme.txt - 28APR94 Welcome to the first English-Vietnamese Dictionary software available today that runs on a PC-Windows based machine! 1. What is in this version? 2. Installing the dictionary 3. Features of the dictionary 4. Future database dictionaries 5. Where to contact Bold Technology 1. WHAT IS IN THIS VERSION? This version is a limited 1.0b beta release of the Dictionary. The functionality of the software is fully featured with exception to the "Add" feature and the on-line help. Also, the vocabularies contains only a limited version of the dictionary (only letters from a through e). 2. INSTALLING THE DICTIONARY Unzip the file diction.zip by running pkunzip -d diction.zip The following file and directories are generated: readme.txt disk1 disk2 copy all the files from disk1 directory into a floppy disk and label it disk1 copy all the files from disk2 directory into a floppy disk and label it disk2 Run windows and run setup.exe from disk 1. Answer questions from the installation program which will guide you through the installation procedure. You may required by the installation program that you must add the line SHARE.EXE /L:500 to your AUTOEXEC.BAT and restart your computer before running the Dictionary The installation also added the line Sans Serif VISCII 1.1 (VGA, C.T.Nguyen)=TCVSS11.FON to your win.ini file under the [font] section if your system does not have it yet. Depending on your machine configuration, you should have at least 4 megs of hard disk space. Due to the requirements of the SimTel archive, the file VBRUN300.DLL has been left out of this package. Please check your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory to see if you already have this file. You need it to run this dictionary. If you don't already have it, you can obtain it from many software archives, probably including where you got this program. In the SimTel archive and its mirrors, this file can be found as vbrun300.zip in the windows3 directory. 3. FEATURES OF THE DICTIONARY o Full word to definition lookup with examples. o Can run in the background and use it within any application. Just iconize the dictionary, then within your application, say MS Words, just double-clicked on the word and the dictionary will pop up with the Vietnamese definition. o User may delete and modify the vocabularies to dictionary database. (The release version will allow user to add new vocabularies to the dictionary database) o User may create and open other dictionaries either from user created dictionary or dictionaries provided by Bold Technology. (Please see the later portion of this readme file for future dictionaries release) o Hypertext lookup. While reading the definition, user may double-clicked on another English word and the dictionary will automatically lookup that word while saving the present word you were reading in a list for later reference. o Wild card lookup - Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions The special characters and the way they are used is described below. * Character wildcard. Matches zero or more characters. Must be enclosed in [ ] to match itself. For example, a*a matches aa, a3a, aBa, and aBBBa. ? Character wildcard. Matches any one character. Must be enclosed in [ ] to match itself. For example, a?a matches aaa, a3a, and aBA, but not aBBBa. # Numeric wildcard. Matches any one character from 0 through 9. Must be enclosed in [] to match itself. For example, a#a matches a0a, a1a, a2a, but not aaa or a10a. [class ]Character class. Matches any one character in the class. You can specify ranges by separating starting and ending characters with a hyphen. For example, [a-z,0-9] matches any alphanumeric character. Because the pattern matching is not case-sensitive, a-z works for both lowercase and uppercase letters. A class can contain multiple clauses, each separated by a comma. Each clause can consist of a single character or a range of characters. For example, [D-Z,0-9] matches any letters and numbers but A, B, and C. [!class]Not character class. Matches any character not specified in the class. For example, [!a-z] matches anything but letters; [!0-9] matches anything but numbers. You can use the exclamation point (!) only in the first character position of a class specification. Other rules are the same as those in the character class. o Definition lookup It is possible to lookup words by providing the definition. For example: you may provide the word "xe" and the dictionary will return "car" - thus, in essence you have a Vietnamese-English dictionary, but the procedure is slow ... Ofcourse you may combine wild-card lookup in this mode as well. Note: If you have VNKey from Trichlor, it is possible to type Vietnamese characters. VNKey and VietVu are among the best Vietnamese keyboard input in the market today, and they are free! There are other excellent commercial Vietnamese keyboard available as well, but be aware that it must conform to VIET-STD VISCII/VIQR COMPLIANT in order to work with the Dictionary software. Please contact Trichlor for the latest version. Bold Technology will provide VNKey software free of charge with the release version. o On-line help is not available with this limited edition. 4. FUTURE DATABASE DICTIONARIES o Bold Technology will provide the following dictionaries in the near future. - Vietnamese-English - Vietnamese-Vietnamese - Medical - Computer - Electronic - Physics - Chemistry - Mechanical more to come as we expand our databases. o Note a unique feature of the dictionary is to allow user to add new vocabularies to the database. (This feature is available in the release version). Utilizing this feature, user may contribute his vocabularies to Bold Technology and receive discounts to future dictionaries! o Future version of the software will provide the following features: - Speech capability both in English and Vietnamese - Quick reference to the names of the countries - Automatic spelling check as you type from within your applications. - Document translations. (You provide the document in one language, Dictionary will translate your entire document into another language. 5. HOW TO CONTACT BOLD TECHNOLOGY o Bold Technology can be contacted in several ways: - e-mail via Internet : chi@rcp6.elan.af.mil - Postal mailing address : Bold Technology 45137 Loma Vista Drive Lancaster, CA 93535 - Phone : (805) 277 - 6743 o The release version will costs about $40 US Dollar The Limited Beta Edition is free. Additional Dictionary database mentioned above will costs about $20 Pricing may change without notice. The release version will be available in summer of 1994 with full feature and manual. This software is not possible without my fiancee, NgocLan. Thank you darling for giving me the encouragement... (now you can stop turning those pages in the dictionary!) Many thanks to others who provide countless tips and opinions. Special thanks to the Trichlor group which provide the VNKey for the development of the dictionary database. - end of readme.txt 22APR1994 -