LXDict is a freeware dictionary program for the HP200LX palmtop, derived
from an open source dictionary program for Linux and Dos machines, related to
in this site as Dict/CLI (Command Line Interface) and sometime Dict/Console.
In this site you can find the open source prgoram, suitable to compilation
*only* under Gnu platforms, including CygWin, but not native compilers
of UNIX machines. Is assumes an STL compliant with SGI and HP.
The commercial application of RogueWave, used by Sun Workshop, Borland C++
and Visual C++ is not so. As you could figure, this software is written
in C++. Compilation instructions for DJGPP are attached. (Gnu Readline
should be recompiled for DJGPP).
In order to compile under Borland C++ 5.02 and produce wither a subset of
the console version with no readline support, or the GUI version for the
HP200LX palmtop (LXDict) you need to patch your installation of BC++ which
will make it unsuitable to compile other applications. Do it on your
own risk! You will also need to create a version of the PAL library for
the medium memory model, if compiling the PDA version.
The core of the program was written by Simo
Blom of Helsinki, Finland. Readline support and palmtop version were written by
Ariel Brosh of Israel.
Download
a precompiled CygWin binary. This is a console application for
Windows 32 bit operating systems, with all the features of the UNIX version
implemented.
Language packages
These zip files should be unzipped in the same directory the binary
was installed in.
Please report broken links.
I apologize for the upper case suffix to some of the filenames.