Description of Mueller Dictionary (24-th Edition).
Copyright agreement is provided in the first line of the dictionary file:
(C) English-Russian Dictionary by Professor V.K.Mueller,
24-th Revised Edition;
Moscow, "Russky Yazyk", 1995;
Electronic Version by "Palek", 1998;
Electronic Version for Unix by E.S.Cymbalyuk 1999, ver. 1.6,
for the latest version see www.chat.ru/~mueller_dic or www.geocities.com/mueller_dic
Copyright on electronic issues of Mueller dictionary, published
after 1991 is transferred from publishing house "Russky Yazyk" to
firm MediaLingua.
I think, that the given publication contravenes their rights in the
lowest degree: if the market requiring such dictionary would be sufficient,
for a long time would appear commercial dictionaries for Unix of
MediaLingua.
I had a brief conversation with a representative of MediaLingua (Tel:
07-095-1159711) and failed to convince him that a professional
English-Russian dictionary MultiLex2 for Linux is a
high priority requirement of contemporary world market.
I think this publication of the dictionary does not damage to
their valuable interests.
A short description of the dictionary format is provided in the second
line of the dictionary file:
Dictionary Format: A dictionary article concerning a dictionary word is
implemented as a single line.
Two blank symbols separate an English word from its translation.
Russian characters are encoded according to koi8-r coding table.
Different meanings of the same word are indexed by Latin or Arabic numerals
preceded by symbol "_", for example, _I-_IX, 1.-6., 1>-34>, �>-�>.
A functional label is preceded by the symbol "_" and terminated
by the symbol "." or ":".
The electronic version of 24-th edition differs from the of 7-th edition.
1) The copyright of this dictionary isn't cleary defined.
I will remove the dictionary from my web page if I receive a letter from
copyright holders.
2) There is information on synonyms and antonyms for many words
in the 24-th edition.
3) New word articles were added in 24-th edition.
4) The 24-th edition does't have transcription.
5) The 24-th edition does't have stress in Russian words.
The dictionary (version 1.6) and file of hashes can be
downloaded as tar.szip file (1.9 MB). Version of szip 1.12a - www.compressconsult.com/szip
Please, send notes and suggestions for improvement by e-mail:
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