[Gllug] Dictionaries on CD

[Chris Bell]

On Sat 02 Nov, Dylan wrote:
> 
> On Friday 01 November 2002 20:46, 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$. Has anyone tried them with Unix/Linux? They are fairly
> > expensive to just buy on the chance that they may work.
> 
> 
> I have the stand-alone version 2 OED CD (from 1997.) It has a single flat 
> ".asm" file, and an index of some kind. There is a proprietry browser program 
> (which is unstable under M$ and I haven't bothered trying under wine.) The 
> spell-checking and lookup functions were implemented by M$-Wierd macros (and 
> hence were clumsy and unreliable. I don't know how it's compressed, or if 
> it's encrypted, but the single CD is far too small to carry the text of the 
> dictionary.
> 
> Dylan

   According to their web site, there is a complete OED (Second Edition)
on CD-ROM version 3.0 (two CDs) including the full 20-volume Second
Edition, the Additions Series volumes 1-3, the Bibliography, plus
extras, which can be copied to hard disc if required, but "can not be
networked" (a network licence for an on-line service is available).
"Substantially discounted upgrades" are available from older versions,
all for M$ only with single user licence. It requires 1.1 GB of HDD to
run from the CD, and 1.7GB to install the CD-ROM to the HDD.
   The UK single-user list price is 250.00 + VAT, upgrades 51.06 + VAT.

-- 
Chris Bell


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