Re: Dictionary
Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 02:57:13PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Okay, I'll go buy a dictionary now :)
> http://www.fin.gov.nt.ca/webster.htm
Tut! Tut! Debian packages of dict and dictd are already available.
% dpkg --print-avail dictd
Package: dictd
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 319
Maintainer: Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.4.8-4
Depends: libc6
Recommends: dict, dict-wn
Suggests: dict-jargon, dict-foldoc, dict-web1913
Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/text/dictd_1.4.8-4.deb
Size: 146732
MD5sum: 0d907c1b7c1809038fa6bab5c9f4ac7e
Description: Dictionary Server
Dictd is a TCP based server that allows a client to access dictionary
definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases.
.
Eight dictionary databases have been packaged for debian. They are:
.
dict-web1913 - 1913 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
(this package is in the non-free section)
dict-wn - WordNet 1.6, A Lexical Database for English
dict-jargon - Hacker's Jargon File
dict-foldoc - The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
dict-elements - Chemical and Physical Properties of the Elements
dict-easton - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
dict-hitchcock - Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
dict-gazetteer - Database of Geographic Data from the U.S. Census
.
These packages are discussed in more detail in the file
/usr/doc/dictd/README.Debian.gz
Either dict-web1913 or dict-wn is essential for a useful dictionary
server. It is strongly recommended that both be installed.
It is desirable that either dict-jargon or dict-foldoc, or both of
them, be installed.
.
The client program, dict, is packaged in dict*.deb If you are
running a server, you will want the client for all machines in your
network, and for testing server operations.
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