The files in this directory provide tools for conjugating the Portuguese verbs. - Conjugate.pm is a perl module with low-level tools (see manpage) - conjug is a perl program that conjugates verbs (see manpage) - treinar is a perl program that drills the user on conjugation. Quick demo : perl -e 'use Lingua::PT::Conjugate; print conjug("programar","perfeito")' programar : perf programei programaste programou programamos programaram See also : http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~etienne Requisites : Perl 5.004 or greater. Maybe less will do. Perl Module : "treinar" require the Term::ReadLine and Term::ReadKey modules. Term::ReadLine::Perl or Term::ReadLine::Gnu are more friendly. Installation : gunzip Lingua-PT-Conjugate-V.MM.tar.gz tar xvf Lingua-PT-Conjugate-V.MM.tar cd Lingua-PT-Conjugate-V.MM perl Makefile.PL make make test make install MAN PAGES : conjug : Progam conjugating Portuguese verbs. treinar : Training at conjugation. Lingua::PT::Conjugate : Description of the algorithm. BUG REPORTS: Mail me at etienne@isr.ist.utl.pt about bug, patches and suggestions. Copyright (c) 1997,1999 Etienne Grossmann All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. CREDITS: Thanks to all people on usenet and here at ISR with whom I have discussed about this module, who have provided advice on conjugation, programming, on naming and on all relevant points. Thanks to Lupe Christoph from cpan-testers@perl.org and to Miguel Marques for finding and fixing some bugs.