This is the README for the collection of CEDICT tools developed
by David Hiebeler, release 1.2.1, July 2005
   http://www.math.umaine.edu/faculty/hiebeler

These tools are Copyright (c) 1998,1999,2005  David Hiebeler
See the file COPYING for license information.

If you are missing some files, or want to check for newer versions,
you can go to http://www.math.umaine.edu/faculty/hiebeler and follow
the link to my "Chinese resources" or something obvious like that.

Also, you can send me an e-mail (address is on my web page) and
request to be notified when new versions of these programs are
available or any dangerous bugs are found.  I promise I won't send any
other junk e-mail.  (Believe me, I hate e-mail spam).  And I doubt I
will make updates very often, unless a pretty serious bug turns up.



You should have the following files:

COPYING : License information.

README: This file.  (If you are missing this file, what are you reading?)

CHANGELOG: History of changes (only begun after version 1.2).

cedictcheckformat : A Perl script which checks to see whether the entries
    in a CEDICT file conform to the standard format.

cedictlookup : A Perl script for doing vocabulary lookups of entries in
    a CEDICT-format file or collection of files.

cedictlookupdoc.txt : Documentation for the cedictlookup script.
                      (Note: in previous releases, it was called 
                      cedictlookup.doc even though it was a plain text file,
                      but some web browsers needlessly fire up Word or 
                      OpenOffice for .doc files, so I changed its suffix
                      to ".txt")

cedictlookup.el : An Emacs-lisp file to make it convenient to call the
    cedictlookup script from within Emacs.

cedictmerge : A Perl script for merging multiple CEDICT-format files
    together, and flag multiple entries with the same Chinese field.

cedictnew : A Perl script for finding entries which are in one set of files,
    but not an earlier set of files.  It's very similar to cedictmerge.
    This is useful to e.g. identify entries in your personal vocabulary files
    which are not in CEDICT, so you can submit them to the CEDICT maintainers.

cedictsort : A Perl script for sorting a CEDICT-format file
    alphabetically by pinyin, as you find in a regular Chinese dictionary.