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hi having trouble linking the aarddict dictionary with the wikipedia files in my mmc1 on the n810 -it looks up some words but not others-when you open the file you can only select one of 3 enwiki-how do you get aarddict to look thru all 3 enwiki files

I must say that I'm pretty impressed with aarddict. It's very fast and article formatting is very good. I'm just wondering why isn't it in maemo extras?

I am also impressed with aarddict for the same reasons. The only downer are links shown in red. Can this be remedied?

thaibill

Open all 3 files, one by one. When you open an .aar file it is doesn't replace the previous one, it is added to the list of open files.

What color would you like instead ? Submit enhancement request at http://bitbucket.org/itkach/aarddict/issues/.

Is there a way to download the suitable wikipedia db precompiled in *.aar format , but without having to use a torrent?

Or in other words: Is there a direct download link for the big wikipedia.aar file, so that the file can directly be used on the NIT?

Thanks

No, there isn't.

Hi guys,

I'm going to try one of those wikipedia reader as well. I just noted that all of them use bzip2 compression. There is maybe a better solution using LZMA or more specifically Lzma Utils ( new version beeing named xz)

http://tukaani.org/lzma/
http://tukaani.org/xz

A quick check on file enwiki-20081008-pages-articles.xml



and decompression is faster than with bzip2 (they claim 2-5x faster, haven't tried by myself)

@Ray: I think that distributing such massive files via mirrors would be prohibitively expensive for a small open-source project, particularly if they start getting popular. BitTorrent was made for this kind of thing.

My comment has nothings to do with esthetics. My ancient eyes have trouble discerning the red text. Perhaps a consensus among aarddict users should be solicited.

The torrent download took overnight. aarddict is totally amazing. Great work.

thaibill