Thanks for your helps.  Yeah I should have said: I used Kakitori 
hovering over Netscape, then when I didn't know a word, I highlighted 
it, pressed Ctrl-C and Kakitori (monitoring the clipboard) automatically 
looked it up in Edict.  It was great.

Rikai was a bit too much for my dial-up.  Poptrans looked to be just 
what I wanted, but 2000/XP only (sobs).  JWPCE is very nice, needs a few 
more keystrokes than I used to, but gets there.  Of course I forgot 
about the Monash Breen collection too.  Well I'll keep experimenting.


Actually if you're still reading, how does Linux do with Asian language 
support these days?  Could I browse internet, email, & edit documents 
reasonably effectively/transparently?

And those who haunt the electronic districts - has there ever been a 
handheld machine that could do OCR of kanji and dictionarise it?


Cheers,