[Gllug] Dictionaries on CD

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 01 Nov, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> 
> Chris Bell wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >   Some of the Oxford English Dictionaries are available on or with a CD
> >version, but all the ones I have seen so far state that they are for use
> >with M$. Has anyone tried them with Unix/Linux? They are fairly
> >expensive to just buy on the chance that they may work.
> >
> >  
> >
> I got Britannica on CD and while it uses IE for most of the interface 
> the CDs contained mostly dat files :-)
> 
> Kind regards
> Xander
> 
   I do not know how a large dictionary like this is organised, would it
be in alphabetical order, tree form? The advertising claims to integrate
with M$ as spell checker, etc.

-- 
Chris Bell


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