Re: [tlug] kanji dictionary

[Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com>]

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 08:15, Marcus Metzler wrote:
> I just installed zten, but all I get is the hour glass for some time
> and then nothing. My guess was that it needs a dictionary installed.
> So I got edict-fpw1.2.1.zip  and unzipped it into /mnt/card/dict,
> still nothing. Since all the instructions are in Japanese, I haven't
> gone through it all (without a dictionary and all :(.

Try running it from the terminal.  That will probably tell you what is 
happending. Have you setup a swap file. It might be running out of memory. I
have found doing a full reset solves this when other applications don't load.

>  > Once you have installed a reader look at
>  > 
>  > http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/edict/fpw/
>  > 
>  > for a large list of dictionarys mostly in epwing format.  Many that
>  > arn't have conversion programs.  There are conversion programs for the
>  > eijiro and waeijiro which both work but you need to install freepwing
>  > first
>  > 
>  > ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/misc/freepwing/freepwing-1.4.3.tar.gz
>  > 
>  > >From the site you mentioned above it was suggested that the eijiro
>  > dictionary was too big and slow.  I didn't find any of the dictionaries
>  > to be slow.  I even tried using all dictionaries simultanously and the
>  > speed was still acceptable.  I am using a 500Meg SD card.
> 
> I got the EIjiro dictionary from amazon.co.jp, could you give me a tip
> on how I have to use freepwing to transform the file on the CD-ROM and
> how to install it on the SD-Card.

There is a good description of what you need to do on the waejiro
installer site.  The process is mostly the same for converting
dictionaries using freepwing.

http://www.dsl.gr.jp/~tf/waeijiro-fpw.html

here is a quote for the page

 To convert the "WAEIJIRO" dictionary, you need about 900MB of disk  
 space. The size of converted dictionary is about 185MB (uncompressed) 
 or 80MB (compressed with ebzip).

 The installation prodecure is following:

     1. Extract the WAEIJIRO dictionary of plain text format
        (WAEIJI52.TXT) from the EIJIRO CD-ROM. A self-extract archive is
        at <path-of-CD-ROM>/eijiro-original/ of the CD-ROM.
     2. Download the waeijiro-fpw package and extract it to proper
        directory and enter the extracted directory.
     3. Edit "Makefile" and change the path to WAEIJI52.TXT.
     4. Type `fpwmake'.
     5. Type `fpwmake catalogs'.
     6. Type `fpwmake install'.
     7. Type `fpwmake clean' to clean the working directory. 
     8. Compress the dictionary using eb-tools, if you want.
     9. Setup your dictionary-lookup software

You do need about 1G of free space, and it does take some time to
convert.

> Regards
> 
> Marcus
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Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com>