On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 11:31 am, Silvan wrote: > I have some experience fooling with the > thing, but none of it recent enough to feed you exactly the right > magic words. Yes, that's your/my problem. My files came from (apt) debian.org so that should be OK. Documantation seems not to cover magic words, but refers to mthes.txt and roger13a.txt, neither of which are on my system. The dict man page gives syntax, but not original setup. -- Regards, Brian