Dear Dhammanando,

> A couple of years back I had my secretary download all the
> pages of the dictionary, join them into a single text file ...

Though an etext of the PED would be very useful, I hope you sent a suitable
donation to the PTS because, as you will be aware, this is copyright
material and I am sure that you, as a Buddhist, would not want to take what
is not given.

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge