Re: tlug: Pilot<>Linux Connection

["Eric Standlee" <e-w.standlee@example.com>]

Definitly let me know more.  I have the romanji E>J>E dictionary program,
but you cannot put in characters.  As I live in Japan, and want to get
better at reading the characters too, it would be nice to be able to input
characters with JOS and be able to read them in the dicitonary too.

Eric S. Standlee
e-w.standlee@example.com 

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> From: Matthew J. Francis <asbel@example.com>
> To: tlug@example.com
> Subject: Re: tlug: Pilot<>Linux Connection
> Date: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 4:17 AM
> 
> 
> 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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> 
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