From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 3 23:16:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA07820 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 23:16:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freight.msn.bc.ca (pc-21656.bc.rogers.wave.ca [24.112.126.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA07808 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 23:16:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bpepa@msn.bc.ca) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (stn02.blk1.intranet.msn.bc.ca [192.168.1.2]) by freight.msn.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA01805; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 23:19:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bpepa@msn.bc.ca) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19980103145639.56960@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 23:20:57 -0900 To: Greg Lehey From: Ben Pepa Subject: Re: Encylopedia Britannica, Oxford English Dictionary and FreeBSD Cc: FreeBSD Questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We use Encyclopedia Britannica at our high school and it requires DOS/Windows as it contains dos executables that run off the CD (through Netscape). Unless you can find a DOS emulator for FreeBSD, it probably won't work. It does contain HTML files of each topic/category, but is hard to search without the executables. However, Britannica offers a online internet version that works on all platforms . Info is available at http://www.eb.com I have not used Oxford Dictionary before, so I don't know anything about it's compatibility. >I'm considering getting the Encyclopedia Britannica and/or the Oxford >English Dictionary on CD-ROM, but I'm a little concerned that the data >may be in formats that FreeBSD doesn't understand (like a proprietary >browser that runs only under Microsoft). Does anybody have any >experience with these CDs? Other things that would be of interest >would be the relationship between the CD-ROM version and the printed >version (especially for the EB. It seems that it would be difficult >to get that much information on a single disk). And, of course, if >you know any places where the prices are good, that would help too. > >Thanks in advance >Greg Ben