man ydpdict (Commandes) - an interface for Collins dictionaries

NAME

ydpdict - an interface for Collins dictionaries

SYNOPSIS

ydpdict [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

ydpdict is an ncurses interface for English-Polish, Polish-English, German-Polish and Polish-German Collins dictionaries, which are distributed by Young Digital Poland.

ydpdict tries to find the configuration file in the following locations (reads only the first one found):

1)
~/ydpdict.conf
2)
~/.ydpdictrc
3)
/etc/ydpdict.conf

OPTIONS

-a [--ang]
Starts the English-Polish dictionary (default).
-p [--pol]
Starts the Polish-English dictionary.
-o [--niem-pol]
Starts the German-Polish dictionary.
-d [--pol-niem]
Starts the Polish-German dictionary.
-n [--nopl]
Turns off displaying of Polish diacritics.
-i [--iso]
Displays polish diacritics using ISO-8859-2.
-u [--unicode]
Displays polish diacritics using Unicode.
-U [--unicodeset]
Switches the console to Unicode mode at start, and back at exit.
-f [--path=PATH]
Sets the path to data files.
-c [--cdpath=PATH]
Sets the path to the CD. (For audio sample files).
-P [--player=PATH]
Sets the path to the WAV file player.
-w [--word=WORD]
Starts the dictionary and translates the specified word.
--version
Displays the version of the program.
-h [--help]
Shows command line options.

AUTHOR

ydpdict was written by Wojtek Kaniewski <wojtekka@irc.pl>. Latest version can be found at http://toxygen.net/ydpdict/