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- From: kishore@argo.rice.edu (Ananda Kishore)
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- Subject: [soc.culture.indian.telugu] Release of Rice Inverse Transliterator Software
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- Date: 5 Nov 92 12:39:50 GMT
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- Archive-name: auto/soc.culture.indian.telugu/Release-of-Rice-Inverse-Transliterator-Software
-
- Release of Rice Inverse Transliterator Software
-
- This is to announce the release of the Rice Inverse Transliterator
- (rit), a free software package for processing text consisting of
- Telugu and English. This software is now in the public domain and is
- accessible by anonymous ftp. (Instructions to get the software below.)
-
- rit is a typesetting software with the following capabilities:
-
- 1. distinguishing English words from Telugu words.
- 2. translating some English words into Telugu.
- 3. transliterating some English words into Telugu.
- 4. correcting spellings in transliterated Telugu.
-
- You will find this software useful if
-
- 1. you post or read messages containing Telugu on s.c.i.t
- 2. you cannot write Telugu but can speak it
- 3. you write letters in Telugu (with English mixed)
- 4. you write stories/poems/.. in Telugu
- 5. you want a small on-line English-to-Telugu dictionary.
-
- Briefly, this software takes text like
-
- maa school ee city lo kallaa peddadi
-
- and prints it in Telugu and English appropriately. It can also
- translate school into baDi and city into nagaram.
-
- To run this software, you need
-
- 1. a Unix machine with LaTeX installed on it
- 2. and not much more, really.
-
- Ideally, you should have a terminal with X windows or openwindows.
- Window capability is required only to see the output on the screen.
- You can still use the program without xpreviewers like xdvi or xview,
- but then you will waste a lot of paper.
-
- If you have access to a Sun workstation (with LaTeX), for example, you
- should be set. To use this software, you
-
- 1. need not know how to use LaTeX
- 2. need not have installed TeluguTeX
- 3. need not be a Unix expert.
-
- This software is free and is in the public domain, BUT COMES WITH
- NO WARRANTY.
-
- To get this software, you need to do the following:
-
- If someone else in your site has already installed rit, you need to
- get only the file "ritinstall.txt". Otherwise, you need to get only the
- file "rit10tar.Z". You can get these files by anonymous ftp from
- 134.129.123.1. For example, if you decide to get "rit10tar.Z", you do
- the following:
-
- % ftp 134.129.123.1
- Type anonymous at the Name prompt and your userid at the Password
- prompt. Then,
-
- ftp> cd dua1:[dviln03.andhra]
- ftp> binary
- ftp> get rit10tar.Z
- ftp> quit
- % uncompress rit10tar.Z
- % tar -xf rit10tar
- % cd rts
- % more README
-
- etc. The file is rit10tar.Z and not rit10tar.z (Notice the upper case
- Z). And the directory is dua1: and not dual: outside the square
- brackets, it is the numeral 1 (one), inside it is the letter l (ell).
- Here is a typical session:
-
- %ftp 134.129.123.1
- Connected to 134.129.123.1.
- 220 Service ready for new user.
- Name (134.129.123.1:kishore): anonymous
- 331 Username Okay, need password.
- Password:
- 230 User ANONYMOUS logged in, proceed.
- ftp> cd dua1:[dviln03.andhra]
- 250 Requested file action okay, completed.
- ftp> binary
- 200 Command Okay.
- ftp> get rit10tar.Z
- 200 Port 128,42,49,2,18,252 Okay.
- 125 File status okay; about to open data connection.
- 226 Closing data connection.
- local: rit10tar.Z remote: rit10tar.Z
- 141312 bytes received in 17 seconds (8 Kbytes/s)
- ftp> quit
- 221 Service closing control connection.
- %uncompress rit10tar.Z
- %tar -xf rit10tar
- %cd rts
-
- This software is currently configured as a front end to TeluguTeX, but
- you are *not* required to have installed TeluguTeX. You are free to
- distribute rit software without any charge. We hope this software will
- be useful to you,
-
- Rama Rao Kanneganti
- Ananda Kishore
-