
             Description of Mueller Dictionary (24-th Edition).
                                      
   Copyright agreement is provided in the first line of the dictionary
   file:
   
     (C) English-Russian Dictionary by Professor V.K.Mueller,
   
     24-th Revised Edition;
   
     Moscow, "Russky Yazyk", 1995;
   
     Electronic Version by "Palek", 1998;
   
     Electronic Version for Unix by E.S.Cymbalyuk 1999, ver. 1.6,
   
     for the latest version see www.chat.ru/~mueller_dic or
   www.geocities.com/mueller_dic
   Copyright on electronic issues of Mueller dictionary, published after
   1991 is transferred from publishing house "Russky Yazyk" to firm
   MediaLingua. I think, that the given publication contravenes their
   rights in the lowest degree: if the market requiring such dictionary
   would be sufficient, for a long time would appear commercial
   dictionaries for Unix of MediaLingua. I had a brief conversation with
   a representative of MediaLingua (Tel: 07-095-1159711) and failed to
   convince him that a professional English-Russian dictionary MultiLex2
   for Linux is a high priority requirement of contemporary world market.
   I think this publication of the dictionary does not damage to their
   valuable interests.
   
   A short description of the dictionary format is provided in the second
   line of the dictionary file:
   
     Dictionary Format: A dictionary article concerning a dictionary word
   is implemented as a single line.
   
     Two blank symbols separate an English word from its translation.
   
     Russian characters are encoded according to koi8-r coding table.
   
     Different meanings of the same word are indexed by Latin or Arabic
   numerals preceded by symbol "_", for example, _I-_IX, 1.-6., 1>-34>,
   A>-Ue>.
   
     A functional label is preceded by the symbol "_" and terminated by
   the symbol "." or ":".
   
   The electronic version of 24-th edition differs from the of 7-th
   edition.
   
     1) The copyright of this dictionary isn't cleary defined. I will
   remove the dictionary from my web page if I receive a letter from
   copyright holders.
   
     2) There is information on synonyms and antonyms for many words in
   the 24-th edition.
   
     3) New word articles were added in 24-th edition.
   
     4) The 24-th edition does't have transcription.
   
     5) The 24-th edition does't have stress in Russian words.
   
   The dictionary (version 1.6) and file of hashes can be downloaded as
   tar.szip file (1.9 MB). Version of szip 1.12a -
   www.compressconsult.com/szip
   
   Please, send notes and suggestions for improvement by e-mail:
   mueller_dic@koi.chat.ru.
