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Hi All, I saw this on the FreePintBar and thought I'd pass it on to my fellow "geeks". The Free Pint Bar at <http://www.freepint.co.uk/bar>. Today's Tipple - Dictionary of Computing Author: Simon Collery Date: 07-08-00 16:32 http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html If you are fed up with coming across obscure, techie terms from the computing world, there is a good specialist dictionary available. It's called the Free OnLine Dictionary of Computing, or FOLDOC. It has 13000 entries at present, and the number is rising. There is a section for recent entries if you like to check out the latest acronyms, abbreviations and words picked up by the editors. And the dictionary is now available for Psion and on CD. The definitions I have looked at are clearly written and all techie words occurring in the definitions are hyperlinked to their entries. Entries are also classified, so you can get a list of related words too, for example, natural language processing is classified under artificial intelligence. And you can get a hyperlinked list of these classes along with the number of words in each one. Cheers Simon Content Developer, Free Pint To access the Archive of Today's Tipples see http://www.freepint.co.uk/portal/content/ or suggest a Tipple by emailing me on [log in to unmask] ****************************** All the best ........... murray [log in to unmask]