C O M P D I C
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Copyright (C) 1997 James William Breen under the GNU GPL.

The COMPDIC file is a glossary of terms used in the computing and 
(tele)communications industries. It is in the "EDICT" format, and is
intended for use as a generally available file for dictionary and
WP software systems.

The following sources of information have been used to compile this
file:

(a) the identifiable entries in the EDICT file itself;

(b) a large collection of material from the various JIS standards.
This has been extensively edited and reformated. Many are rather
old-fashioned (punched cards - forsooth), and many relate to OSI standards.

(c) an excellent glossary file of telecommunications and computing
terms prepared by Paul Denisowski (pad@fns.com). This file was intended
for separate release, put Paul has kindly agreed to fold it in.

(d) other terms I have collected along the way;

In preparing this file, I have used the following to help prepare &
check entries:

- the Kodansha "Great Japanese Dictionary", which is available in 
Electronic Book format, and which I have been able to use on-line.

- Gene Ferber's "Dictionary of Computer & Data-Processing Terms", 
(Tuttle, 1990)

- a file of Microsoft glossary information for the Japanese versions of 
Win95, etc. (This has not been a lot of use, but occasionally is good
for cross-checking.)

Many thanks to Jean-Jacques Labarthe for many corrections to the 
file. Thanks also to Paul Denisowski and Gururaj Rao for their valuable
contributions.

Jim Breen
October 1997
jwb@dgs.monash.edu.au