MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet ee781759
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TZUTC: -0400
Hello Martin!

** On Sunday 14.03.21 - 08:32, you wrote to me:

 MF> Many many many years ago, I had some translation software
 MF> but it got "lost" somewhere. I don't remember the name of
 MF> it but I do recall it did a reasonable job and it also had
 MF> the power to learn.

I think Grammarly works the same way. It "learns" (or rather,  
retains) the corrections you make and then remembers them the  
next time a word or set of words are used in context.

I found another online translator.  Here is the TOC using DeepL:

        I Basics

             1.1 FidoNet - structure and addressing
             1.2 Point in FidoNet
             1.3 The nodelist(s)


        II Installation and operation

             2.1 Installation and configuration
             2.2 Network call
             2.3 Ordering and managing areas (boards, echoes)
             2.4 Board groups: Umlauts, Origins, Re^n and size limit
             2.5 Writing and polling under different AKAs
             2.6 Sending and receiving files
             2.7 Addressing Internet gateways
             2.8 Sysop mode (diskpoll)


        III Node lists

             3.1 Managing node and point lists
             3.2 Crash mails
             3.3 File Requests
             3.4 Call charge counter for crashes and requests
             3.5 Crash/Request by Timing List and AutoSend


        IV Technical Documentation

             4.1 The NDIFF node list editor
             4.2 The message converter ZFIDO
             4.3 The call log file XPFIDO.LOG
             4.4 The Fido mailer XP-FM
             4.5 The yuppie converter YUP2PKT


        Appendix

             A.    Files in the CrossPoint/Fido package
             B     XP-ToolNET
             C.    Glossary
             D.    Known problems
             E.    CrossPoint/Fido - Version History

"Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)"

Do you see anything amiss above?

DeepL will allow 5000 chars per translation.


 MF> Nice idea, are you volunteering :-))

I would suggest that we can split the effort between several of  
us OpenXP users, post the translation results in the XPOINT echo  
and tweek where necessary to produce the final result.

The fido.txt file is about 133,400 chars. That would be about 27  
chunks of txt (or visits) to DeepL at a time.  We could assign  
three people to do 10 x 5000 char chunks at a time.

We could assign a couple of weeks to critique the translation  
result for each section.

Many hands make light work!  ;)

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