Running JGloss

JGloss requires no installation. On a Windows system with the Java Runtime Environment installed, double-clicking the jgloss.jar file should start the application. To start JGloss from a shell, change to the directory which contains the JAR file and enter java -jar jgloss.jar . JGloss has some command line options: java -jar jgloss.jar [option] file ... .

-h , --help , /?

Shows a short help message with the list of options.

-i , --createindex

Creates JJDX index files for the dictionary files given on the command line. The index files will be saved in the current directory. JGloss tries to create a JJDX index file for a dictionary file automatically when none is found. If this fails, for example because a normal user has no write permissions for the dictionary directory, you can log in as a privileged user ( e. g. administrator or root) and use this option to create the index files.

-f , --format

Prints the format of the dictionary files given on the command line.