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- RUSSIAN ENGLISH ON-LINE DICTIONARY
- Version 1.25
- (C) Copyright 1991 by Leon Ungier
-
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- Version 1.25 is shareware and may be freely
- copied and shared on a non-commercial basis.
- If you choose to register ($30 fee), I will
- send you Version 1.3 of the Dictionary
- (selectable keyboard layout) and printed
- instructions. In addition, you may apply this fee
- against the purchase of Version 2 of the Dictionary
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-
- Hardware requirements
-
- IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible with at least one floppy drive,
- Graphics display card (Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA),
- DOS 2.0 or higher.
-
-
- Introduction
-
-
-
- Russian English On-Line Dictionary is a memory-resident program which
- means that it needs to be installed in your computer memory every time
- you turn on your computer. After that the Dictionary is always there
- in the background, ready to be used no matter what is your computer busy
- with (as long as it is on). Just press the "hot" keys combination and
- the Dictionary pops up to the screen. Press Escape key and you are back
- to your application or DOS prompt.
-
- The Dictionary program contains the following files:
-
- The CRUSENG.COM, ERUSENG.COM, VRUSENG.COM, and HRUSENG.COM
- files are executable memory-resident programs, CGA, EGA, VGA
- and Hercules display cards respectively.
-
- RUSENG.BAT automatically loads appropriate program for the
- active display card.
-
- RUSENG.DOC (this file) is an ASCII file describing how to use
- On-Line Dictionary.
-
- DISTEST.COM is used by the RUSENG.BAT program to determine the
- display card type of your computer.
-
- RUS-ENG.DIC is the Dictionary Data file.
-
-
- Installation
-
- To install the Dictionary, make sure that all Dictionary files are
- in your current directory. Type RUSENG at DOS prompt, then press
- Enter. The Dictionary setup and options will appear on the screen.
- If the default setup suits your needs, press Enter again to complete
- the installation.
-
- Remember, however, that the Dictionary program needs to know where to
- look for the Dictionary Data file. The default path is
- A:\RUS-ENG.DIC. If your computer is equipped with a hard disk, you
- may keep the Dictionary Data file in one of its subdirectories. It
- this case, you would need to change the default setup.
-
- To change setup, press Tab key once (the highlight on the screen will
- move) and then press Enter. The current path to the Dictionary Data
- file will be highlighted now. You can press Tab key now to leave it
- as it is or press Enter and you will be prompted for a new path. You
- must type the full pathname, e.g., C:\DOCS\RUS-ENG.DIC and then press
- Enter. If you made a mistake or changed your mind while typing the
- new path (but before pressing Enter) and want to keep the old path
- just press ESC to cancel and highlight the next setup item.
-
- The next item you may change is the "hot" key (key combination that
- you press simultaneously) to activate Dictionary after it has been
- installed. Again, you press Tab key to leave it as it is or press
- Enter to select other hot key combinations.
-
- After going through all the set-up options you will be asked to press
- Enter if you want to save the changed setup to disk file or to press
- Esc to keep the changed setup in computer memory only. In any case,
- you can always change the setup again as many times as you wish. For
- example, if at any time after installing the Dictionary you decide
- that you would rather have different settings, make sure that all
- files from disk #1 are in the current directory, type RUSENG at DOS
- prompt and press Enter. The Dictionary setup screen will appear
- again allowing you to make changes in the same way as described
- above.
-
- The last step is copy the dictionary data file into a subdirectory you
- had indicated in your setup.
-
-
- Looking up a word
-
- Any time after installation, when the "hot" key combination is
- pressed, the Dictionary program comes to the screen and waits for
- the user to type in a word to look up. You type in the word using
- keys shown on the screen and press Enter. Use backspace key to
- delete one character at a time if you have made a mistake while
- typing.
-
- After pressing the Enter key the Dictionary will start searching
- for the word you typed and after a brief period will show it in the
- top row of the dictionary page along with its English rendition.
- If the word you typed is not in a dictionary, the closest match
- to your word will appear along with its English translation.
-
- In addition, the screen will show Dictionary entries which
- alphabetically follow the word you typed. Just like in a "regular"
- dictionary you can "browse" the dictionary by using UP or DOWN
- cursor keys.
-
- To get on-line help, press F1 key. Help contains information on
- Dictionary usage, and explanation of abbreviations and symbols used
- in the Dictionary.
-
- Press Esc to leave Dictionary and return to whatever you have been doing
- before calling it.
-
- Abbreviations
-
- In "regular" dictionaries abbreviations are usually printed in a
- different typeface to help to distinguish them from the rest of the
- text. In our case we distinguish them by the dot at the end of every
- abbreviation.
-
- In general, the layout of the Dictionary follows the layout of
- printed dictionaries. However, to save space, abbreviations for
- self-evident cases are omitted. Thus, nouns and verbs are usually
- not preceded with any abbreviation (n. or v.). We know that the
- Russian word is a verb if the English rendition starts with a to;
- otherwise it is a noun. All other cases are always preceded with an
- appropriate designation. Unless indicated otherwise, it may be
- assumed that the verb listed has an imperfective aspect. Gender is
- indicated for irregular nouns only or to avoid confusion. Thus, the
- designation f.& m. means that the noun gender depends on the gender
- of the person it refers to. Also, in some cases, nouns and verbs are
- explicitly designated as such to avoid confusion.
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-
- Personal Dictionary Manager
-
- General
-
- Pressing F2 from the main Dictionary screen (Fig. 2) brings you to
- the Personal Dictionary Manager screen (Fig. 3). Here you can create
- your own Dictionary files, add new records to these files or
- search them for records you have added earlier. The program will not
- let you to add records to the main Dictionary file or search it while
- in the Personal Dictionary screen.
-
- Dictionary selected.
-
- The file which will be searched or which will have a record added to
- is shown in inverse video. This is the dictionary selected. You can
- instantly select one of the two files shown by pressing F5 or F6
- function keys. You can also replace either one of the two files shown
- with a new one by pressing F7 and then typing new file name. If you
- change your mind and decide to return to the old selection, just
- press ESC before pressing Enter and the old file name will reappear,
- (pressing Enter with no characters typed in will do the same). The
- name of the file you chose does not have to be a name of an existing
- file. In fact, the very first time you start the Personal Dictionary
- Manager you will not have any Personal Dictionary files. You will be
- given an option to create a file when trying to add a record to such
- non existing file. However the names you give still have to be valid
- DOS file names. Again we recommend typing full path name, that is
- drive, directory and the name itself; for example, c:\docs\mydict.001.
-
- You can also select your personal dictionary files from the
- installation screen (Fig. 1) following the same customization
- procedure as described in changing the main Dictionary location.
-
-
- Searching and Adding.
-
-
- The two basic modes of operation of the Manager are SEARCH mode and
- ADD mode. Pressing F9 key puts the Manager into SEARCH mode while F10
- switches it into ADD mode. The prompt (short underline) shows which
- mode the Manager currently is in. In SEARCH mode the prompt and the
- characters you type appear in the same row and following the Search:
- sign, whereas in ADD mode the prompt and the characters you type
- appear in the row below the Add: sign
-
-
- Searching
-
- SEARCH mode functions pretty much the same way the main Dictionary
- does. You type the string to search for and press Enter. The manager
- starts searching the file selected and displays Searching ... sign.
- After a while, if the search is successful, it displays Found sign
- and in the row below what it has found and then waits for your
- keystroke. You can now either type another string to search for,
- switch to a different file and search again for the same string
- without retyping it, switch to ADDING, or escape back to the Main
- Dictionary.
-
-
- Adding
-
- Adding is similar to searching except that in ADD mode you type the
- whole record rather than just the search string. The record usually
- consists of two strings: 1. the keystring, this is the string which
- you or someone else will presumably search for later; 2. the explanation
- string or the text which follows the keystring. The keystring can be
- any combination of characters (English or Russian) up to 31
- characters long. The explanation string can also contain any
- characters and any length from zero to 45 characters.
-
-
- In ADD mode you start with typing the keystring first. After typing in
- the string (one or more characters) press Enter to mark the end of
- the keystring. The cursor will move several spaces to the right and
- appear under the Translate a: sign. Type the explanation string now
- and press Enter at the end of it. The program will start adding
- process and you will see Adding ... sign displayed in the place where
- before was the Add: sign. If ADD is successful the program will display
- Adding done message and will wait for your keystroke. Again, you can
- now type another record to add, switch to searching and so on.
-
-
- If adding is unsuccessful the program will display an explanatory
- message and will wait for your action. For example, If you select a
- file which does not exist yet the program will display the following:
- XXX.YYY File not found, create it? Y/N, where XXX.YYY is the name of
- the file you gave selected. You should answer Y (Yes) if you want to
- start a new file. You should answer N (No) if you believe that the
- file does exist and then press F7 and retype the selection to make
- sure the correct and full pathname is specified.
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-
-
- Please direct all your questions and comments to
-
- Leon Ungier
- 1922 Garryanna Pl.
- Corvallis, OR 97330
- (503)-737-3177
- (503)-752-1223
-
- e-mail: UNGIERL@CCMAIL.ORST.EDU
-