Here it goes:
For the first time ever, multiple Indian language dictionaries are
simultaneously available for on-line reference. At the touch of a key.
Without interfering with your work in any way. Never again do you
have to take the bulky volumes down from your book shelf and
painfuly search through them :-)
After consulting several scholars, we found that serious students
of a language constantly refer to more than one dictionary. That
is the reason to chose to make at least two dictionaries in each
catagory. Six Telugu-related dictionaries are currently available.
A. English-Telugu Dictionaries
1) Brown
2) Sankara Narayana
B) Telugu-English Dictionaries
3) Brown
4) Sankara Narayana
C) Telugu-Telugu Dictionaries
5) Sabdarthachandrika
6) AP Sahitya Acadamy
In addition, certain special purpose dictionaries have been merged
with some of these to enable reference to legal and administrative
terms.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
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You will need a harddisk to run the software. Other than that, the package
runs on any IBM PC or compatible. The amount of free disk space required
depends on the number of dictionaries you purchase. In general, you will
need 3 to 4MB of disk space per dictionary.
The software is designed to run fast even on a 4.77 MHZ 8088 procesor.
But if you have a 80286 or better, things would simply fly.
THE PROGRAM:
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The program that allows access to the dictionaries, RDICT, is memory
resident. Such programs are called Terminate and Stay Resident, in short
TSR, programs. You load the program once, at the time of booting your
computer or at some other convenient time. After that the dictionaries
are available at the touch of a key. You can suspend and resume the
execution of this program any time. You can remove it from memory
when you do not need it. THE PROGRAM OCCUPIES ABOUT
63KB OF MEMORY.
Powerful data compression techiniques have been used to reduce disk
space requirements. For example, Sabdarthachandrika, which has
about 54,000 entries, requires less than 4MB of disk space for both
index and data.
I am sure, the program uses an extremely sophisticated indexing
technique and guarantees that, a word will be found in less than
3 disk accesses.
The program is *bugless*, I am responsible for this word.
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These dictionaries are available for sale from Indepth Systems, Hyderabad.
Regards,
-Madhava