# WORDS - Version 1.97 for Windows 95/98/NT
LATIN-to-ENGLISH DICTIONARY PROGRAM

### This page provides instructions for downloading the WORDS Latin-to-English dictionary program for the PC running Windows 95/98/NT.

29 August 2001 - New version 1.97 of the Windows WORDS has been mounted as the regular distribution.

### The WORDS Program

This is a version compiled on Windows 95 to run as a console program (keyboard entry). It runs like a DOS program, line-oriented, without fancy Windows GUI. The DOS version will also run in Windows 95, but the Windows version has the advantage that it terminates gracefully when run in the DOS partition of Windows 95.

There are two files to be downloaded that the viewer can download as binary files if his browser allows. The program and the data are in two self-extracting files.
DISK1197.EXE
DISK2197.EXE

The purpose of having two files is is that individually they are less than the capacity of a 3 1/2" floppy, so that you can copy them and pass them on to a friend who might not have net capability.

These .EXE files, executed on your machine will produce about 12 MB of program and data files (and then may be discarded).

It is usually good practice to make a subdirectory (to keep things together) and copy the .EXE into it, then run it in that subdirectory.

The files created are:

    WORDS.EXE
    MEANINGS.EXE

    WORDS.HTM
    WORDSW95.HTM
    WORDSDOC.HTM

    INFLECTS.SEC
    ADDONS.LAT
    UNIQUES.LAT
    DICTFILE.GEN
    INDXFILE.GEN
    STEMFILE.GEN
    WORDSDOC.HTM
    WORDSW95.HTM

The main program created is WORDS.EXE. Run that to do Latin-to-English word translations. The output looks like this:

    =>amo
    am.o             V      1 1 PRES ACTIVE  IND 1 S
    amo, amare, amavi, amatus   V
    love, like; fall in love with; be fond of; have a tendency to

The file WORDSDOC.HTM provides some documentation, and is also accessible on this site as WORDSDOC.HTM. This is stand-alone, it is not callable from the WORDS program.

WORDS for Windows 95 runs on a IBM-compatible PC, running Windows 95 (and Windows 98 and NT).

#### MEANINGS ONLY

There are academic situations in which it would be inappropriate for the student to have access to the parsed forms information, but for which the professor might allow simple meanings. For this situation a modification has been made producing a program called MEANINGS, and it is available in the distribution. Run this in the presence of the dictionary files, just like WORDS. This is a version that is crippled to output ONLY MEANINGS, no parsing of the word. It is hard-coded so there is no way to output the case/tense, as opposed to the option in WORDS that allows the temporary suppression of this information. It does allow the display of the dictionary form, which seems to be appropriate and allowed for the intended use. If anyone requires a version that suppresses the dictionary form, let me know.

As a safety precaution, the previous 1.96 version is continued on the site.
DISK1W95.EXE
DISK2W95.EXE