WWW/LEO version 0.01
====================

The WWW::LEO module provides an object-oriented interface to the
English-German online dictionary at http://dict.leo.org.  That is, you
can query for search expressions and get the results.  See the module
documentation and the included sample client (eg/leo.pl) for
information on how to use this thing.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

You'll need to be online to 'make test'.

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules available from CPAN:

  o LWP::UserAgent (comes with LWP)
  o HTML::TokeParser (comes with HTML::Parser)
  o URI::Escape (comes with URI)

For the sample client (eg/leo.pl), additional module are necessary:

  o Term::ReadKey
  o Term::ReadLine::Gnu (not required, but recommended for best
    functionality)

SUPPORT

Please contact the current maintainer of this module to report any
bugs or suggest changes to this module:

  Jörg Ziefle <ziefle@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2002 Jörg Ziefle

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself. 

THANKS

... to the guys at LEO to provide this nice dictionary.
... to the folks that filled it up with entries. :)

REFERENCES

  o The dictionary itself at http://dict.leo.org
  o Other Perl implementations of LEO clients are available (at the
    time of writing) at:
    - ftp://ftp.daemon.de/scip/Scripts/leo
    - http://cgi.xwolf.de/perl/leo.txt
    - http://scripts.irssi.de/html/leodict.pl.html (this is a plugin
      script for the irssi IRC client, see http://www.irssi.org)

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