Dear John,
I have done my best to translate some causes of the world's recession to German.
It took me about three days to process all of it. In despite of this, I put on
this disk only Dutch texts. That is why I added a translation program, on
which I am working now. One can read the texts quit well when one has adapted
himself to the limitations of the program. However, I ask you to let me know if
people appreciate the LITTLE SISTER of BIG BROTHER. I am convinced that there
are great possibilities to spread my and other views about the economy; for
that is pure dynamite. For easy startup I made a batchfile that can be invoked
with the key 'V' at the DOS-prompt. Just try it.
User instructions:
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Start INSTALL.BAT form the diskette and answer some questions. Mostly with 'Y'
An appropriate directory will be made on drive C:\ and all BABYLON files will
be copied to the subdirectory C:\BABYLON. About a 100 files will be created. Be
sure at least 9 megabytes of free disk space are available. Start the translation
program AIT.EXE. Choose the option INSTALL, and answer the questions. Choose
e.g. the database D2G in order to translate from Dutch to German. Select after
this the option EDITOR. Within the EDITOR MENU you can take the function
UTILITIES. Than pick the option IMPORT-EXPORT.
One menu further on, you have e.g. the choice IMPORT WORDS, where with ENTER a
list of databases will be given. E.g. E2D (English to Dutch), or A2E (Arabic
to English). For the translation of my texts to German, you will have to take
D2G. After the import of about 18000 words you leave the EDITOR. Pick from the
main menu the function TRANSLATOR. With ENTER you will get at first an empty
field to be able to put in a name, but with some other ENTER you will get an
overview of all the files in the subdirectory C:\BABYLON. Enter the TEXT-dir.
Look now for a file with the extension ZNS, what is the abbreviation
of ZINS or INTEREST in German. Give ENTER again, and the translation will run
by itself.
Do you want to learn the programm new words? Do start the programm with the
learn option /L. So: AIT/L. The programm than stops on each word it does not
know yet. Afterwards you can make changes with the EDITOR utilities. Make an
EXPORT to hard disk, and contribute to the international database library of
the VOC Foundation. For the time being people have to work pretty hard to
connect all languages to all other languages; and provide each world citizen
the opportunity to read correspondences with authorities that were exchanged
about the monetary policy and about the economy. LITTLE SISTER will be able
to improve democracy substantially. LITTLE SISTER is this small disk on which
so much information can be transferred without any possibility of repression.
So, copy PDC-III (PUBLIC DOMAIN CORRESPONDENCE-III) to directory C:\PDC-III
and run it. PDC-III is LITTLE SISTER as you will understand !!
Have fun reading, Robert
p.s. When you want to show other people this file, I do think it's alright,
therefore I give my address once more.
Foundation VOC
P.O. Box 3030
1273 RJ Huizen
The Netherlands
Telephone: 00-31-35-5244141
E-mail: sdn@planet.nl