Re: tlug: Pilot<>Linux Connection

["Matthew J. Francis" <asbel@example.com>]

On 08-Jun-98 Chung Chiew Farn wrote:

>  Just wondering... anybody tried to get Japanese support onto the
>  Pilot?
>  What kind of Japanese input could it support? I guess I could rule out
>  Kanji input, since a pilot has 2MBs(?) of storage only. But how about
>  Kanji display w/ hiragana/romaji inputs?

Actually, you can get display *and* input, with the help of the J-OS
package. It takes about 165K for the app, the Elisa font, and the full
conversion database (there's also a less useful conversion database of
about 60K smaller, if your memory is tight). You should be able to find
it by searching on pilotgear.com
  The memory figures for an (unaltered) Pilot, by the way, are 512K for
the Pilot Personal, 1 Meg for the Pilot Pro (mine), and 2 Megs for the
Palm III. For the super-keen and/or super-rich, the memory module can
be upgraded third party up to about 8 Megs, though...


Just to plug one of my back-burner projects again, I'm working
intermittently on a GPL'd EDICT-based J->E dictionary for the Pilot. My
best guess at the moment (the compressor isn't finished yet) is that
I'll be able to fit about 2/3 to 3/4 of the 65,000-odd entries into my
target of 700K...

Cheers,
-Matt.

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