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CD-ROM summary
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| Author: | Peter Daniels | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
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Lexicography
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In LINGUIST List 8.381 I inquired about bilingual dictionaries on CD-ROM for Macintosh. Aside from the people who asked to share whatever information I received, the following responses came (I've condensed a couple of con- versations slightly.) Apparently there is nothing available like the "Languages of the World" CD-ROM that was distributed years ago. From: reigharj@alpes-net.fr (John Reighard) Subject: CD Rom dictionaries Greetings, I remember seeing ads for CDRom dictionaries from Larousse, Robert and Hachette, and I believe you can find the equivalent of Le Petit Larousse and Le Petit Robert, as well as smaller and larger versions. (I once used a disk version of what must have been a very small pocket edition of the Larousse but it was so bad I threw it away.) Unfortunately I can't locate those ads at the moment, but a fairly large supplier I know of here is VPC Shopping 5, rue Emile Augier 38000 Grenoble tel: 04 76 86 68 38 (leave off the first zero when calling from abroad) fax: 04 76 85 02 57 Another big French supplier: Computer Bench Apple Center 13, R. A. Croizat 94814 Villejuif Cedex tel: 01 49 58 11 00 fax: 01 46 78 19 11 The editors of SVM Macintosh (fivrier 1997, page 47) mentioned the following among their "coups de coeur": Larousse Multimidia Encyclopidique (Liris interactive) Atlas Hachette Multimidia (Hachette) Encyclopidie du corps humain (Liris interactive) Dictionnaire Visuel et Interactif (Havas Edition Electronique) I know there is also a CDRom encyclopedia put out by Grolier, and the Encyclopaedia Universalis is also out on CDRom, at about the same price as the printed edition. The Universalis claims to offer ten times more information than any other encyclopedia on CDRom, but I heard somewhere that they didn't include the pictures! There is also a service on the Minitel: 3617 CDROM which claims to hold large stocks of CDRoms. I haven't tried them so I don't know what they're worth. I believe the French Minitel service is available on the Web. Of course there are also the dictionaries and synonym dictionaries included in the French versions of editors like Word, Word Perfect, Nisus, and so forth, but they are much more limited. Hope this helps. Happy hunting! John Reighard Address in France Departement de linguistique (until 1 July 1997) : et de traduction 36, avenue Felix Viallet Universite de Montreal 38000 Grenoble CP 6128, Succ. Centre-ville France Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7 tel/fax : (0)4 76 85 42 92 Canada tel : 514 343 5975 fax : 514 343 2284 e-mail: reigharj@ere.umontreal.ca reigharj@alpes-net.fr ***************************************** From: James E Copeland <copelan@ruf.rice.edu> Subject: Re: 8.381, Qs: CD-ROM dictionary Peter, Have you tried the web dictionaries. They're numerous and simple to access - and free. Try http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html for a starter, otherwise search for dictionaries, French language, etc. etc. Jim Copeland. ***************************************** From: nroberts@hawaii.edu (Norman Roberts) Subject: re CD-ROM dictionaries As a last resort you might try SOFT WINDOWS ver. 2 or 3. This program puts MS-DOS in your Mac at the cost of 16+ megabytes of RAM and 30+ megabytes of hard disk space. But it works [most of the time]. Version 3 probably works better than Version 2 (which I'm currently using). The Mac market is misperceived by many publishers and s lot of good products simply aren't available to Mac users. You'd need enough RAM for both Soft Windows and the Mac OS, probably 24 megabytes or more. Check with your Educational Media Center (or whatever it's called). These folks are usually very helpful. There's no cheap solution for what you want to do. It's unlikely that there is a MAC version of the dictionary you have. The only other solution is a $700+ DOS/Windows card that you plug into one of the slots. These put a DOS machine in your MAC, have their own memory, and allow you to switch between platforms with ease. ***************************************** From: Philippe ALCOUFFE <PALCOUF@hachette-livre.fr> Subject: CD ROM dictionnaries Hello, We (Hachette Livre) do publish two reference CD ROMs that might be of some help that are : Dictionnaire Hachette Mutimedia : a monolingual french "dictionnaire encyclopedique" (a typically french notion) with sounds, video, maps, animation and such - 490 FF Hachette Oxford : the infamous bilingual dictionary currently on PC, soon to be on Mac. It can be called on for loourchased thru Software World 920-A6 Houston Northcutt Blvd Mount Pleasant SC 29 464 USA There is an internet site : www.internetx.net/~sofworld an email : sofworld@internetx.net a toll free number : 888 338 9675 a not toll free number : 803 884 0230 the price is for ACADEMICS and STUDENTS : 70$ for the bilingual and 85$ for the monolingual It can be ordered thru phone with credit card and takes 24h to get Enjoy ... and if you decide to go for it, tell me what you think of it Ph Alcouffe ****************************************** From: Olivier Laurens <laurens@cs.sfu.ca> Subject: CD-ROM dictionaries I just saw your question about CD-ROM dictionaries on the Linguist list. Well, this might not be much, but you could try "le monde en tique", a French bookshop that specializes in computing: http://www.lmet.fr/ I haven't managed to find where the CD-ROM dictionnaries are hidden in their index of products, but they should answer e-mail requests as well (lmet@lmet.fr). Hope this helps O. Laurens Olivier Laurens Natural Language Lab Research Associate School of Computing Science Tel: +1 (604) 291-3208 Simon Fraser University Fax: +1 (604) 291-3045 Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6 email: laurens@cs.sfu.ca |
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| LL Issue: | 8.450 | |
| Date Posted: | 02-Apr-1997 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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