WHAT IT IS (v1.0)

ECDict is a English-Chinese dictionary module for CLex. I only ported the freely available data to Newton and DO NOT claim any copyright of the original data. The original data can be fetched from http://www.ifcss.org/ftp-pub/software/

WHAT YOU NEED

A Newton with NOS2.0 or later. At least a set of Chinese font in unicode format. You can find one on my homepage or on Info-Mac -- Freeware.) 

CLex dictionary engine. CLex is a shareware multilingual dictionary engine. Notably it supports Chinese/Japanese and other script systems. There is a built-in memo so that you can put a new word in the memo for your later peruse. You can also look up a word online by selecting the word or simply place the caret under the word you want to look up. A TapBar button is also included so that you can have access to CLex almost everywhere at any time. You can get the engine on my homepage or from Info-Mac (and mirrors, soon.)

HOW TO USE

You should have CLex installed first. See the document of CLex about how to install and use CLex. Follow the usual installation procedure on Newton to install ECDict, then you can have access to ECDict in CLex's 'Dicts' menu.

DISTRIBUTION

This software can be freely distributed as long as this readme file is enclosed.  This software is FREEWARE.

WARRANTY

USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IMPLIES THAT YOU WILL HOLD ME HARMLESS TO ANY DAMAGES CAUSED BY THE PERFORMANCE  OF THIS SOFTWARE.  YOU ALSO AGREE THAT I CANNOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY OTHER DAMAGES YOU MAY INCUR BY THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE.  I PROVIDE NO WARRANTY, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, OF THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ITS MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

Contact of the Author

Please send bug report and suggestion about this software to,

Joseph Chen

e-mail:joseph@nats.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
url: http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~joseph/

Feb. 26 1998