::: L I N K S F O R T H E D A Y :::

Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2002/08/18/
freshmeat.net newsgroup: news://news.freshmeat.net/fm.announce

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (31) :::

[001] - Alumni-OnLine 2.0.1.0
[002] - Anubis 3.4.1 (Stable)
[003] - archivemail 0.4.9
[004] - backup by loop 2.0
[005] - Caffeine Monkey 0.5
[006] - Catweasel Linux Device Driver 0.3.1
[007] - cWriter 1.7
[008] - diffstat 1.30
[009] - eXtended Account Managing Software 0.0.8
[010] - filter 0.8
[011] - fzap 0.1 (tk_zap)
[012] - gGo 0.1.1
[013] - GNUsound 0.3.7
[014] - gtkmm 1.3.21 (Unstable)
[015] - Height Map Editor 1.1.0
[016] - idesk 0.22
[017] - kanjidrill 5.12.1
[018] - Linuxconf 1.28r3
[019] - Mantis 0.17.4
[020] - NewsBro 2.1
[021] - nload 0.5.0
[022] - NNTPobjects 0.9.3 (Pike)
[023] - One-Wire Weather 0.68.0
[024] - PFARS 0.9.3
[025] - pymad 0.2
[026] - Statistics about SAP upgrades 2002-08-17 (Stable)
[027] - The Linux Virus Writing HOWTO 2002-08-15
[028] - W3Perl 2.89
[029] - WallFire wflogs 0.9.0
[030] - web-cyradm 0.5.0
[031] - wordtrans 1.1pre10 (Stable)

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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::

[001] - Alumni-OnLine 2.0.1.0
  by Fatih (http://freshmeat.net/users/fatihboy/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 04:57

Communications
Education
Internet

About: Alumni-OnLine is a PHP/DBMS-based program to make a connection
between alumni. Sending messages and searching for someone is so easy. It
has different levels of user rights, and is easy to install, configure,
and use.

Changes: Editing and deleting operations on the news can now be performed
by the links near the news items. Faculties and departments can now edit
using a link in the admin menu (departments.php). A User List section was
added, which lists all users in the system. Any user can now be deleted. A
problem with quotes when saving the news into the database was corrected.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/alumni-online/

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[002] - Anubis 3.4.1 (Stable)
  by Wojciech Polak (http://freshmeat.net/users/ghostface/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 05:52

Communications :: Email :: Filters
Internet :: Proxy Servers
Security :: Cryptography

About: Anubis is an outgoing mail processor, and provides the SMTP tunnel
between the MUA (Mail User Agent) and the MTA (Mail Transport Agent). It
operates as a proxy server daemon, independently from mail user agents,
and can manage and process outgoing mail on the fly using a highly
configurable rule system, based on a regular expressions (PerlRE) system.
Anubis can edit outgoing mail headers, encrypt and/or sign mail with
GnuPG, build secure SMTP tunnels using the TLS/SSL encryption even if your
mail user agent doesn't support it, or tunnel a connection through a SOCKS
proxy server.

Changes: For security reasons, a new USER-NOTPRIVILEGED keyword has been
added. It specifies the user which the server runs as when doing
unprivileged operations. Some additional changes and fixes have been made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/anubis/

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[003] - archivemail 0.4.9
  by Paul Rodger (http://freshmeat.net/users/paulrodger/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 10:41

Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Filters
System :: Archiving

About: archivemail is a tool written in Python for archiving and
compressing old email in mailboxes. It can move messages older than the
specified number of days to a separate mbox-format mailbox that is
compressed with gzip, or optionally just delete old email. It supports
archiving mbox, MH, and maildir format mailboxes.

Changes: A bug where an exception was thrown if a message was dated
exactly on the Unix epoch has been fixed. A bug where trailing slashes on
the end of maildir/MH mailbox arguments were being used in the archive
name was also fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/archivemail/

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[004] - backup by loop 2.0
  by loop (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdomenech/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 13:25

System :: Archiving
System :: Archiving :: Backup

About: loop backup is a bash script for automatic and complete system
backups with a large but simple configuration. Destination can be CDR(W),
hard disk, tape, or Samba. The backups include the configuration and data
of the most-used applications/utilities/services on any GNU/Linux
workstation or server.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/loopbackup/

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[005] - Caffeine Monkey 0.5
  by t1gg3r (http://freshmeat.net/users/t1gg3r/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 05:05

System :: Networking :: Monitoring
Utilities

About: Caffeine Monkey is a collection of PHP4 scripts that wrap the
ping, traceroute, nslookup, and whois utilities in a Web interface. It
uses a central configuration file and CSS to make it easy to change the
look and feel.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cm/

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[006] - Catweasel Linux Device Driver 0.3.1
  by Michael Krause (http://freshmeat.net/users/rawstyle/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 08:52

System :: Hardware

About: cwfloppy is a Linux device driver for the Catweasel Advanced Floppy
Controller manufactured by Individual Computers. The Catweasel is a small
ISA device controlling a simple Shugart bus. It is extremely flexible and
can be programmed to read and write just about any floppy disk in the
world. This driver supports reading and writing of Amiga and MS-DOS DD/HD
3.5" disks.

Changes: A bug in the previous release which kept Amiga writing from
working was fixed. A section about the HD indicator hole problem has been
added to the README. Upgrading is highly recommended, as the previous
development release can destroy your Amiga disks when trying to write to
them.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cwfloppy/

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[007] - cWriter 1.7
  by makina (http://freshmeat.net/users/makina/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 04:55

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Message Boards
Office/Business :: Groupware

About: cWriter is a Web-based collaborative writer. Its goal is to
facilitate working on a document online and collaborating with peers. It
includes tools like a calendar, a file repository, user permissions fixed
 per document, a bookmark database, and more. cWriter can also be used as
an intranet freeform tool.

Changes: A function for moving files around, a fixed links bank, and a new
graphical user management display for administration. Only the French
translation is complete, but German and English are almost finished.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cwriter/

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[008] - diffstat 1.30
  by T.E.Dickey (http://freshmeat.net/users/tedickey/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 13:25

Software Development :: Version Control
Utilities

About: Diffstat reads the output of the diff command and displays a
histogram of the insertions, deletions, and modifications in each file.
Diffstat is commonly used to provide a summary of the changes in large,
complex patch files.

Changes: This release has updated parsing to work with diffutils 2.8
(which changed the date format).

License: Freely Distributable

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/diffstat/

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[009] - eXtended Account Managing Software 0.0.8
  by Oliver (http://freshmeat.net/users/siminka/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 13:30

Communications :: Email :: Address Book
Communications :: Email :: Mail Transport Agents
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office

About: eXtended Account Managing Software (XAMS) allows Administration of
Unix, Web, FTP, DNS, and email accounts to manage a provider's typical
userbase. Especially focusing on email account management, it enables you
to easily create accounts, set aliases, and delegate domain administration
to 2nd party resellers or customers. It uses PHP with MySQL or PostgreSQL
as a backend, and is therefore able to manage tons of email accounts
independently from your Unix/Linux accounts. Exim for SMTP and Courier for
POP/IMAP are fully supported, but postfix, Cyrus, and qmail can be used
too.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xams/

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[010] - filter 0.8
  by Matthew Kirkwood (http://freshmeat.net/users/weejock/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 08:39

Security
System :: Networking :: Firewalls

About: filter takes a high-level langauge and compiles it into packet
filtering rules for a variety of packet filters. Iptables, ipchains, and
ipfilter backends are available.

Changes: A security issue in the forwarding support for iptables and
ipchains (which was new in 0.7) has been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/filter/

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[011] - fzap 0.1 (tk_zap)
  by frog (http://freshmeat.net/users/Schaepe/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 13:38

Multimedia :: Video

About: fzap is a channel zapping program for dvbs-cards that supports
nvod/linkage zap and audio zap. It returns current and future EPG-Infos
and duration for current channel.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fzap/

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[012] - gGo 0.1.1
  by Peter Strempel (http://freshmeat.net/users/pstrempel/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 05:05

Games/Entertainment

About: gGo is a Go board and SGF editor and client for the Internet Go
Server. Go is an ancient board game, very common in Japan, China, and
Korea. gGo was formerly named qGo for Java.

Changes: This release contains some bugfixes and support for translations.
English and German are available at this time.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ggo/

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[013] - GNUsound 0.3.7
  by groomed (http://freshmeat.net/users/wasbeer/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 10:46

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Capture/Recording
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors

About: GNUsound is a sound editor for Linux/x86. It supports multiple
tracks, multiple outputs, and 8, 16, or 24/32 bit samples. It can read a
number of audio formats through libaudiofile, and saves them as WAV.

Changes: A possible deadlock on playback was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnusound/

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[014] - gtkmm 1.3.21 (Unstable)
  by Murray Cumming (http://freshmeat.net/users/murrayc/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 10:42

Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Widget Sets

About: gtkmm (previously known as Gtk--) is a C++ interface for the
popular GUI library GTK+. It provides a convenient interface for C++
programmers to create graphical user interfaces with GTK+'s framework.
Highlights include typesafe callbacks, widgets which are extensible by
inheritance, and many classes that can be easily combined to quickly
create complex user interfaces.

Changes: Double-destruction of GtkObjects was prevented, and Pango::Layout
can now be constructed.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtkmm/

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[015] - Height Map Editor 1.1.0
  by Radu (http://freshmeat.net/users/raduprv/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 08:45

Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization

About: Height Map Editor edits, generates, and manipulates terrain height
maps. These can be used in terrain renderers, which are used in games,
applications, and demos.

Changes: A tool that allows you to embed objects in the existing terrain
was added, so now you can customize your height maps even further by
adding rivers, volcanos, craters, and so on. This tool can add, subtract,
and place objects on the existing terrain, so you can do virtually
anything with it as long as you have the right templates. A bug that
prevented the cursor shape from properly changing in some rare
circumstances was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hme/

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[016] - idesk 0.22
  by nikon (http://freshmeat.net/users/lonenikon/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 04:49

Desktop Environment

About: idesk plops icons down on your root window (desktop). It includes
support for PNG alpha layers, and pretty antialiased text with Xft

Changes: Fixed a bug in execution.

License: BSD License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/idesk/

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[017] - kanjidrill 5.12.1
  by Phil Brown (http://freshmeat.net/users/philbrown/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 04:49

Education :: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
Text Processing :: Linguistic

About: kdrill helps people learn Japanese 'Kanji' characters. It
originally started as a simple multiple choice Kanji quiz program, to help
people learn Japanese characters, but it now has a few different guess
formats, history options, and also has a dictionary function. Words can be
looked up in a variety of methods, including Romaji, SKIP, four-corner,
cut-n-paste, and English search.

Changes: Cut and paste now works under LInux and FreeBSD. MacOS X is
supported. Some other miscellaneous changes were made.

License: Freeware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kdrill/

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[018] - Linuxconf 1.28r3
  by Matthieu Araman (http://freshmeat.net/users/matthieuar/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 13:29

System :: Systems Administration

About: Linuxconf is a sophisticated administrative tool. It is both an
activator and a configurator, and can manage quite a few system tasks. It
has some unique features, like configuration versioning and multiple
machine management. It supports multiples languages (French, German,
Italian, etc.) and can be administered from ncurses (text), Web, command
line, or X (GNOME or wxxt) user interfaces.

Changes: The dnsconf module was enhanced to support more vregistry
variables, and linuxconf now detects some vdeliver timeouts. Backup
scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts are no longer produced by
default to avoid confusing init scripts. A bugfix was made for vregistry's
--rundialog option.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/linuxconf/

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[019] - Mantis 0.17.4
  by Kenzaburo Ito (http://freshmeat.net/users/prescience/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 13:22

Software Development
Software Development :: Bug Tracking
Software Development :: Quality Assurance

About: Mantis is a PHP/MySQL-based bugtracking system. It is extremely
easy to deploy and customize, and features one of the simplest and
cleanest interfaces of any tracking tool available. It supports multiple
projects and email notification, and is localized for over 18 languages.

Changes: This release addresses several security issues and fixes some
major bugs.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mantis/

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[020] - NewsBro 2.1
  by Michael Bergknoff (http://freshmeat.net/users/berg/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 13:27

Communications :: Usenet News

About: NewsBro is a web-based application providing a Usenet newsreader
service. It supports multiple users, accessing multiple news groups on
multiple news servers. User profiles are maintained in order to allow for
individual news preferences. It is implemented as a Java program, and
requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK)
to be installed on the server system. Users only require a standard web
browser.

Changes: This release adds a JSP implementation, which moves all HTML
presentation to the JSP script files. The JSP script files are released
under the BSD license, giving the NewsBro administrator full control of
the NewsBro look and feel. NewsBro 2.1 is often used for the
implementation of Web-based discussion forums as a part of another Web
application. Other notable features in version 2.1 include yEnc decoding
support, XFace support, and one click access to all images within a
newsgroup.

License: Free for non-commercial use

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/newsbro/

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[021] - nload 0.5.0
  by Roland Riegel (http://freshmeat.net/users/rolandriegel/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 05:42

System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: nload is a console application which monitors network traffic and
bandwidth usage in real time. It visualizes the in- and outgoing traffic
using two graphs. It also provides additional information, such as the
total amount of transfered data and the min/max network usage.

Changes: A new option window (accessed with the 'o' key) was added for
changing program settings at run time. The IP addresses of network devices
are now displayed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nload/

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[022] - NNTPobjects 0.9.3 (Pike)
  by fharmon (http://freshmeat.net/users/fharmon/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 05:00

Communications :: Usenet News
Utilities

About: NNTPobjects is a collection of C++ classes for easily creating
simple or advanced NNTP clients. It enables novice and advanced C++
programmers to quickly write small utilities, or even full-featured NNTP
clients.

Changes: This initial version of the port to Pike features the same
interface as the C++ version, and will continue to be developed side by
side with it.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nntpobjects/

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[023] - One-Wire Weather 0.68.0
  by Dr. Simon J. Melhuish (http://freshmeat.net/users/sjmelhuish/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 13:23

Scientific/Engineering

About: Oww (One-Wire Weather) is a client program for Dallas Semiconductor
/ AAG 1-wire weather station kits, providing a graphical (animated)
display to monitor outside temperature, wind speed and direction,
rainfall, and humidity. Extra temperature sensors may be added. A 1-wire
"hub" may be used for improved reliability and range. Weather data may be
logged to CSV files, parsed to command line programs, sent to the
Henriksen Windows client, or uploaded to Web servers at Dallas, The
Weather Underground, and HAMweather.

Changes: The "Auxilliary Window" was added. This shows the latest readings
from all Oww devices.

License: Artistic License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/oww/

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[024] - PFARS 0.9.3
  by Paul Baker (http://freshmeat.net/users/pbaker/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 04:53

System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks

About: PFARS For Automatic Replication System is mainly used to sync
servers in LVS clusters but also has many other uses. It is based on
rsync over SSH and has native support for the Debian package system.

Changes: The init-files.local and files.local files are now useful. A new
packages.local file is used for overriding the installed Debian packages.
The default init-files config file was improved to fix bugs and include
/etc/apt/sources.list. PFARS now properly restarts when it is updated
during stage two.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pfars/

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[025] - pymad 0.2
  by jaq (http://freshmeat.net/users/jaq/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 08:46

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: pymad is a Python module that allows Python programs to use the
MPEG Audio Decoder library. It provides a high-level API which makes
reading from MPEG audio streams a piece of cake.

Changes: Python's distutils is now used. The MPEG frame info is now made
available to the calling program.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pymad/

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[026] - Statistics about SAP upgrades 2002-08-17 (Stable)
  by Matteo Redaelli (http://freshmeat.net/users/matteoredaelli/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 10:29

Utilities

About: Statistics about SAP upgrades is a simple and powerful Perl script
useful to extract information about the duration time of each phase of a
SAP upgrade.

Changes: The options -n, -p, -t, and -b were added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/stat-upg-sap/

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[027] - The Linux Virus Writing HOWTO 2002-08-15
  by Gürkan Sengün (http://freshmeat.net/users/tarzeau/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 11:50

About: The Linux Virus Writing HOWTO describes how to write parasitic file
viruses which infect ELF executables on Linux/i386. Though it contains a
lot of source code, no actual virus is included. Every mentioned infection
method is accompanied with a practical guide to detection.

Changes: The document was split into an introduction and a
platform-specific part. The revision history was flushed, since converting
links in old entries is too much work. i386 development was moved to
RedHat 7.3. A port to Debian GNU/Linux on SPARC was started. A rework of
the document is in progress. "The magic of the Elf" and "The language of
evil" are finished. All following chapters are probably broken.

License: GNU Free Documentation License (FDL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/viruswriting/

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[028] - W3Perl 2.89
  by Laurent Domisse (http://freshmeat.net/users/domisse/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 11:46

Internet :: Log Analysis
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: W3Perl is a Web logfile analyser. All major Web stats are available
(referer, agent, session, error, etc.). Reports are fully customisable via
configuration files, and there is an administration interface control
available.

Changes: Real time stats have been added. Some fixes have been made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/w3perl/

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[029] - WallFire wflogs 0.9.0
  by Hervé Eychenne (http://freshmeat.net/users/rv/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 08:36

Internet :: Log Analysis
Security
System :: Logging

About: The goal of the WallFire project is to create a very general and
modular firewalling application based on Netfilter or any kind of
low-level framework. Wflogs is a powerful log analysis and reporting tool.

Changes: This version mainly adds the ability to filter logs with a
Perl-like conditional expression. A Debian package is now available. This
version is considered much more mature.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wflogs/

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[030] - web-cyradm 0.5.0
  by Luc de Louw (http://freshmeat.net/users/delouw/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 11:52

About: web-cyradm is a Web-based tool to admin the Cyrus IMAP Server and
partially the Postfix MTA with a nice and fast frontend written in PHP. It
supports multiple virtual domains, setting quotas, and mapping email
adresses to mail accounts.

Changes: Support for PostgreSQL as an alternative database was added.
Internationalization support was added with gettext. A German translation
was written. Lots of small bugfixes were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/web-cyradm/

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[031] - wordtrans 1.1pre10 (Stable)
  by rvmsoft (http://freshmeat.net/users/rvmsoft/)
  Sunday, August 18th 2002 13:28

Utilities

About: Wordtrans is a frontend for several dictionaries. It supports some
plain text dictionaries such as i2e (English-Spanish) and de-en
(German-English), Babylon Translator dictionaries, and dict servers
dictionaries. Some features include console and X (Qt) versions, good
speed, and the ability to watch the clipboard and automatically translate
the word there.

Changes: Some bugs have been fixed. There are important changes in the
Debian packages (wordtrans-console doesn't exist anymore, and is replaced
by wordtrans-qt, which is now also a console application). wordtrans-web
supports dictionaries in other charsets, which means that it's possible to
use it with dictionaries in Cyrillic, Hebrew, Greek, etc. There are now
more dictionaries available.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wordtrans/

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