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[lojban-beginners] Re: daski fanva



On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 05:16:26PM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote:
> On a related note, I find it interesting but not surprising that a
> lot of people in the Lojban community seem to think everyone knows
> what "compile" means or how to do it.
>
> I think it has something to do with Unix. 

No.

To compile a piece of software means to take a written
representation of the program (the source code) and turn it into
something you can actually run on your computer (the object code).

> I'm currently trying to build a Linux computer and get one of the
> various boot CDs to install on it, to no avail...

Linux is still pretty hard for a non-techie to deal with, IMO.

> Is it feasible to "compile" this dictionary for Palm OS?

No; they are different systems entirely, so the code for one won't
make any sense on the other.

On PalmOS, you can use SuperMemo as both a memorization program and
a word lookup program.

-Robin

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