Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 23:20:57 -0900 From: Ben Pepa <bpepa@msn.bc.ca> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Encylopedia Britannica, Oxford English Dictionary and FreeBSD Message-ID: <l03110700b0d4f55aab97@[192.168.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <19980103145639.56960@lemis.com>
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We use Encyclopedia Britannica at our high school and it requires DOS/Windows as it contains dos executables that run off the CD (through Netscape). Unless you can find a DOS emulator for FreeBSD, it probably won't work. It does contain HTML files of each topic/category, but is hard to search without the executables. However, Britannica offers a online internet version that works on all platforms . Info is available at http://www.eb.com I have not used Oxford Dictionary before, so I don't know anything about it's compatibility. >I'm considering getting the Encyclopedia Britannica and/or the Oxford >English Dictionary on CD-ROM, but I'm a little concerned that the data >may be in formats that FreeBSD doesn't understand (like a proprietary >browser that runs only under Microsoft). Does anybody have any >experience with these CDs? Other things that would be of interest >would be the relationship between the CD-ROM version and the printed >version (especially for the EB. It seems that it would be difficult >to get that much information on a single disk). And, of course, if >you know any places where the prices are good, that would help too. > >Thanks in advance >Greg Ben
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