
DicPro 0.9.8 beta (standalone) for PalmOS 
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License

    Copyright (C) 2002,2003 Valentim Batista
    http://timsara.zetafleet.com/
    http://www.geocities.com/gc_timsara/
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.
    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    license.txt file containing the GNU General Public License for more details.

Trademark Notice

PalmPilot and PalmOS are trademarks of 3Com Corporation.
 
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    This version is a enhanced version of 0.9.7 with 
    state saving, better big file support and 
    extended indexing/searching.

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Help

When you start the program a button is presented for each dicionary installed (2 pdbs each). 
The user selects the dicionary that he pretends to use. 
Next time that you start the program the last dictionary selected will be preselected.

A word can then be entered to search for (a minimum 2 letters).
The search type can be selected with the button */* that when pressed changes itself 
to */-, -/*, ./. and */* again indicating the language that the program search and if 
on ./. case only the first word of each expression is searched.
The search initiates when the user presses the Search button.
The search is interrupted if a predefined number of hits is reached and 
an ellipsis (...) is added at the end of the result.
A search can take from 1 to 5 seconds to conclude, being that 
in a small number of occasions it will take even longer.
After the search has concluded there are 4 buttons that are selectively 
available to scroll the result.

There is a About button that presents some text about the app.

There is a Select button that reenters the dictionary selection phase.

On the dictionary selection phase there is a Info button that enters the information/management phase
where a list of dictionaries and its sizes is presented together with an option to delete each dictionary.

There is a Close button to close the app.

There are no options neither preferences to select.

The dictionaries are freely downloadable from http://timsara.zetafleet.com/dicpro.html

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Versions

24.01.2003 DicPro version 0.9.8 beta (standalone - doesn't require Waba VM)

	This version is a enhanced version of 0.9.7 with 
	state saving, better big file support and 
	extended indexing/searching.


19.01.2003 DicPro version 0.9.7 (std) beta (standalone - doesn't require Waba VM)

	This version is a speed optimized version of 0.9.4 with minor adjustments
	Jump optimization thanks to Peter Dickerson 
	The searches complete in 71% to 82% of version 0.9.4 
	The searches complete in 48% to 55% of version 0.9 
	Two bugs (with very small search patterns) corrected
	Color support
	Untested PalmOS 5 support
	(at the same time version 2 of dictionary files was released now with 
	Russian [transliterated], Japanese [romanised] and Latin support)

15.01.2003 DicPro version 0.9.6 (std) beta (standalone - doesn't require Waba VM)

	This version is a speed optimized version of 0.9.4 with minor adjustments
	Jump optimization thanks to Peter Dickerson 
	The searches complete in 71% to 82% of version 0.9.4 
	The searches complete in 48% to 55% of version 0.9 

08.04.2002 DicPro version 0.9.4 (std) beta (standalone - doesn't require Waba VM)

	This version is a speed optimized version of 0.9.3 with minor adjustments
        Compression optimization thanks to Peter Dickerson 
	The searches complete in 63% to 67% of version 0.9 

28.03.2002 DicPro version 0.9.3 (std) beta (standalone - doesn't require Waba VM)

	This version is a speed optimized version of 0.9.2 with compression 
	optimization thanks to Peter Dickerson <peter.dickerson@ukonline.co.uk>
	The searches complete in 64% to 69% of version 0.9 

04.01.2002 DicPro version 0.9.2 (std) beta (standalone - doesn't require Waba VM)

	This version is a speed optimized version of 0.9 with minor adjustments
	The searches complete in 80% to 90% of version 0.9 due to improvements in Jump

29.06.2001 DicPro version 0.9 beta (standalone - doesn't require Waba VM)

06.06.2001 Dic version 0.8 beta (requires Waba VM)


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DicPro Installation (PalmOS)

The previous versions of Dic (not DicPro) should be uninstalled


1st - Install DicPro (the application) - Dic.prc (58 Kbytes)
      This version of Dic doesn't require Waba VM 
      The previous versions of Dic should be uninstalled to save space
      as this version doesn't include a dic.pdb file


2nd - Install the desired dicionary files - 2 pdb each: a data file + a index file
      freely downloadable from http://timsara.zetafleet.com/dicpro.html


