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4. Files

Before going on I have to say something about the files wordtrans uses.

The first time one of the front-ends is run, the hidden directory ~/.wordtrans/ will be created and the files in /etc/wordtrans/ will be copied to it.

These files have the information for every dictionary that wordtrans can manage, and can be edited or created new ones with the front-ends qwordtrans and kwordtrans. If you use the console version you may edit them by hand because they are just text files.

I have to emphasise that the front-ends only work with the files in ~/.wordtrans/ and NOT with files in /etc/wordtrans/, although since version 0.8.2 you can use the option --conf to specify the directory where the configuration files would be looked for.

Both qwordtrans and kwordtrans will save its preferences in ~/.wordtrans/preferencias .

The console version reads from ~/.wordtrans/preferencias the default dictionary.


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