Ebview ("Electronic Book Viewer") is a program to read CD-ROM
dictionaries in EPWING format. See also
http://ebview.sourceforge.net/
Packages for SuSE Linux 8.2 are here:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/ebview-0.3.0-0.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/ebview-0.3.0-0.src.rpm
There are at least 2 free dictionaries available in EPWING format,
one is Ulrich Apel's German/Japanese dictionary WaDoKUJT:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/wadoku-fpw-1.1-0.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-src/wadoku-fpw-1.1-0.src.rpm
and the other are the English/Japanese "intelligent" dictionary files
of the FOKS project which are based on Jim Breen's EDICT (see also
http://www.foks.info/index.html):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/foks-fpw-1.1-0.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-src/foks-fpw-1.1-0.src.rpm
Such EPWING dictionaries can also be viewed with lookup.el from (X)Emacs.
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Mike Fabian