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This is "Ding"

  * a dictionary lookup program for Unix,
  * DIctionary Nice Grep,
  * a Tk based Front-End to [ae]grep, ispell, dict, ...
  * Ding {n} :: thing

 Copyright (c) Frank Richter <Frank.Richter@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> 1999
 GNU public license, see COPYING for details
 Ding comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

Ding contains a program "ding" and a German-English dictionary 
(ca. 124.000 entries). 

To install it on Linux (RPM based, such as Redhat, Suse):

% rpm -Uhv ding-1.1-1.noarch.rpm

To install it on other Unix systems:

% gzip -dc ding-1.1.tgz | tar -xvf -
% cd ding-1.1

Then simply run:
% ./install.sh

Or manually: 
  edit ding and change some options explained there, esp. the location
  of the dictionary file.
% cp ding /your/bin/dir
% cp ger-eng.txt /your/lib/dir


You may install the icons and/or wmconfig and/or KDE/Gnome applnk files
to make "ding" available to your window managers.

I hope you'll enjoy "ding"!


The German-English dictionary file "ger-eng.txt" has been maintained 
over the last five years. All your comments are welcome. In fact, your
questions, comments, corrections, and new words are the source where
this dictionary evolves from. Keep them going...

Beware: i tried my best, but accuracy is not guaranteed!

For news ("der letzte Stand der Dinge") see 
    http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/dict

Thanks to all of you who helped to improve this dictionary,
thanks to the Tcl/Tk and all Open Source Software developers!

Frank Richter <Frank.Richter@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>