I tried both files, and they worked. The big one took a minute or two to pack. I used the converter program that was released in 2009. I also tried with the latest version (with the cygwin runtime libraries), and that one crashed on me. So, you should download the one attached in that post I linked to above. I then just used that converter.exe file with the
locales language files that came with the cygwin version of the converter program.
I looked inside the dict.xdxf file, and it looked like the XML was malformed. There were lots of
elements that weren't closed. I took them out, but it didn't change the output. I guess the converter was able to figure out how to ignore them.