Download
program without dicitonary:
(download dics with magic-dic itself)
program with english dictionary:
di-0.99-german-english.tar.gz (1.8MB)
program with X-English
dicitonaries:
di-0.99-withalldics.tar.gz (5.5MB)
monolithic version:
di-0.99-monolithic.tar.gz (400kb)
required programs, for those who don't have:
GNU-tr-sort-uniq (gnu-textutils-2.0)
Magic-Dic is a multi-lingual dictionary program for console. It supports search coevally in global and user dictionaries. It also supports simultaneous searching in more than in one dictionary to study similarities between languages. Dictionaries are easily chosen via command line by country code abbreviations. It can search for more than one word in a search request, or/and encircle a search with words that have to be included also. The search for a word can be an exact word match or inexact, with the word being part of a word. It supports also approximate search with specifing numbers of errors in the search-word. Also thematic search is supported. Magic-Dic is more than a dictionary-view-program. New dictionary entries can be created also in multi-lingual insert mode, allowing you to automatically create all dictionary language pairs at once by translating a word to many different languages. New entries into user dictionaries are emailed to a central location (word centre), where they are all merged into a central source for Magic-Dic's dictionaries. The actual collection can be easily downloaded from the centre with Magic-Dic. New translations can be checked out in a NEWS system. New incorrect translations can be deleted with sending a message to the server, an email can be sent to the author and a resplacement can be set. False translations will be removed up a certain vote level on the server. The goal of this project is to create larger and complex dictionaries with the help of many users. All dictionaries are keep as easy ASCII files open for all to read out or modify. New dictionaries can be installed easily with the program from the word centre. Magic-Dic can also be used to view encyclopedia/lexika. Users can report each other translation errors by email. An automatc version info and News is included also. It can run in loop mode to read out with mouse selected text and simply allows the user to navigate through the dictionarie. Dictionaries are in iso-8859-1 and utf-8 available. It support switching to the utf-8 standard and to configure an xterm, rxtv, etc for preferred display.
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THE BASIC IDEA OF THIS PROJECT:
Commercal dictionary are expensive and are mostly limited in their translations, especially in the scientific area. Although the need of translations of rarely used words is still there. Most dictionary programs offer functions to create personal dictionaries as addition to their base. Unfortunately this uniq work stays mainly unused on a single PC, only usable for ONE user and how likely will the information get lost by the next system crash. So it is not really worth to create a large personal dictionary. Why not sharing the done work and saving it that way by spredding it? Why not supporting others with your entries and get support from others in return? This is the main idea of the project: Share and save your input and create an actual lively database for translations. Every new translation has an identifer of creation time and user, so that users can communicate with each other and correct their translations. The dictionary format is in simple ASCII, readable and usable for all people. This opens the limitations that have encrypeted commecial dictionaries. Go for open source dicitonaries!
The dictionaries here are source from and under the GPL 2 licence.
Magic-Dic is written as bash scipt using agrep to be simply used in terminals, because entering a simple command line is finally faster and easier, than opening a graphical program every time one needs a translation. Also functionality with mouse is implemented. Magic-Dic can run in loop and read out with mouse selected words or text every time the user marks something. It is possible to navigate through the dicitonary simply by clicking on the words. The minimum lenght of words can be specified. It is also possible to read text from stdin. It is tested on Linux SuSE 7.0 and DEBIAN. Tested also on HP-UX and runs on SUN with some adaptions, compiling the required GNU programs. Generally it should run with the GNU programs, that can be installed in an extra directory as workaournd. See readme for details. Please support me with feedback.
WINDOWS
User of that operation system can download a unix shell for Windows:
and have to install in that shell: bash, awk, agrep, wget to the standard set of tools as: sort, uniq, more, less, gunzip, wc, grep, date. Cygwin will assist this installation partly and The rest can be found on www.freshmeat.net . Inside that shell, Magic-Dic can be installed. The ziped archive files can be upacked with the „tar“ command:
$ tar -xvfz di-0.99.tar.gz
enter the directory after:
$ cd di-0.79
and read the README
$ less README
and follow the instructions.
Documentary
Actual listing of all dictionaries
Dictionaries of:
afrikaans-english
afrikaans-german
albanian-english
countrycodes-english
danish-dutch
danish-english
dutch-english
dutch-french
dutch-german
dutch-italian
elements-english
esperanto-dutch
esperanto-english
esperanto-french
esperanto-italian
esperanto-norwegian
esperanto-portuguese
finnish-english
finnish-french
french-english
french-german
frisian-dutch
german-english
hungarian-english
hungarian-german
indonesian-english
irish-english
italian-english
italian-french
italian-german
italian-portuguese
japanese-english
japanese-german
latin-dutch
latin-english
latin-french
latin-german
latin-spanish
latin-swedish
lexikon-english
norwegian-dutch
norwegian-english
polish-english
portuguese-english
portuguese-german
scottish-german
spanish-dutch
spanish-english
spanish-finnish
spanish-french
spanish-german
spanish-portuguese
swahili-english
swedish-english
swedish-french
swedish-italian
swedish-kurdish
turkish-french
turkish-german
turkish-italian
welsh-english