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Ergane 2.1 is a multilingual dictionary programme for Windows. It was develop-
ed on a 486 with 8 MByte RAM but it seems that a minimal configuration will
do too.
In order to run Ergane needs at least Windows 3.1. The programme does not need
any fonts other than a few of the ones included with Windows 3.1
This programme is freeware and the data are free of copyright. There are no
restrictions on the use of either programme or data.
The executable file is ERGANE.EXE which must be accessible by Windows; it
needs the following third-party software (included in the ZIP-file) to run:
BRUN300.DLL (Visual Basic 3.0 Runtime module)
CMDIALOG.VBX
The most appropriate location for these files would be the Windows system
directory (they may already be installed there for some other Visual Basic 3.0
application).
All other files, containing the necessary data for Ergane can be put in either
the same directory as the programme or in a separate data directory. In case
of a separate directory, the environment table of DOS should contain the va-
riable ERG that indicates the search path.
E.g.: ERG=C:\ERGANE\DATA
If this variable is not found the programme looks in the current directory
for the data files.
It's best to keep all Ergane files (except the the aforementioned three) in a
special directory because there are more than 400 of them.
Ergane can do the following things:
1. Translate single words and short expressions from one language to another
by using Esperanto as an intermediate language.
E.g.
Dutch Esperanto English
aannemen adopti adopt
akcepti accept, receive, take
supozi assume, presume, suppose
2. Find (near) synonyms.
E.g.:
Dutch Esperanto Dutch
aannemen adopti aannemen, adopteren
akcepti aannemen, accepteren, ontvangen
supozi aannemen, onderstellen, veronderstellen
3. Apply limited pattern searching.
E.g.:
English English
h@t hat, hit, hot, hut
zoo* zoo, zoologist, zoology
4. Help with learning foreign languages. It can choose a random words from
language X and the user is then asked to type in the equivalent in language Y.
Ergane 2.0 has the following features:
1. Vocabularies (varying in size from just a few entries to more than 50,000)
for the following languages:
Dutch, Afrikaans, Frisian, Modern English, Old English, German, Danish, Dano-Norwegian,
Swedish, Icelandic, Latin, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian,
Modern Greek, Classical Greek, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Polish, Czech, Serbo-
Croatian, Russian, Finnish, Hungarian, Kurdish (*), Maltese, Turkish, Swahili,
Yoruba, Malay, Indonesian, Maori, Hawaiian, Tahitian, Mandarin (*), Thai, Lao,
Japanese (*), Papiamentu, Sranan and Zulu.
(*) Romanized
From time to time enlarged vocabularies for these languages and vocabularies
for new languages will be issued.
2. Additional phonetic transcriptions in IPA for English, Dutch, Thai and Lao.
3. An export module for generating trilingual (X-Esperanto-Y) dictionaries in
ASCII and several 8 bit character sets (CP 437, Windows International, Latin
1 and many others).
4. Language information (geographical distribution, family tree).
5. Keyboard configuration files that can be modified for use with non-US key-
boards (French, Russian, etc.)
6. A concise user manual (UMANUAL.WRI) and a technical manual (TMANUAL.WRI).
If you have any information about bugs in the programme or errors in the
vocabularies you can send an email to:
gvwilgen@worldonline.nl
or a letter to
Gerard van Wilgen
Tweede Brandenburgerweg 50
3721 CJ Bilthoven
the Netherlands
If you happen to know Esperanto you are also invited to send me contributions
involving missing words from the vocabularies or even missing languages (pro-
vided that they can be written using the current version of Ergane's character
set).
Gerard van Wilgen