LeDico                           dictionary, IBM PC
Electronic English-to-French Dictionaries
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
If you've ever wished for an electronic English-to-French
dictionary that was just like traditional paper dictionaries,
then LeDico may be what you need. LeDico (also called
Dictionarian) is a software engine that comes with four
English-to-French and French-to-English electronic dictionaries,
containing over 15,500 general terms, 1,300 business terms, 600
computer terms, and 300 popular slang terms.
 
To initiate a search for a term, you can type in only the
prefix of the term. LeDico displays the first page of the terms
sharing that prefix or its subprefix. You can also use the string
search, in which LeDico displays the translation of all the terms
sharing the string, regardless of the string's position inside
the terms. You can search for a term over several dictionaries.
 
LeDico lets you modify any entry and add any number of new
entries to the dictionaries. You can also create your own
dictionaries by creating entries or by importing files. The
software engine can work as a stand-alone program or in TSR mode.
In the latter case, it lets you copy and paste terms or selected
strings to and from a word processor.
 
You select commands from LeDico's pop-up windows and menus
using arrow keys, first letters, or shortcut keys. The menus are
in English and French. Corresponding on-line help files are also
available.
 
LeDico runs on the IBM PC and laptops with 256K bytes of RAM
(512K bytes is recommended), DOS 2.11, and a hard disk drive. The
package comes with three 5,-inch or two 3+-inch floppy disks.
 
Price: 595 French francs.
 
Contact: LeDico Systems International, 57 rue St. Blaise, 75020
Paris, France, 33-143-70-84-03.
 
                              --- Martha Hicks
 
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