[Ilugc] is there any dictionary available in linux ?
- From: tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Jose Tharayil)
- Date: Fri Jul 2 10:02:13 2004
dictd
requires the databases available in debian
is there any OFFLINE dictionary available in linux ?
with regards,
balachandar.m
[tom@symonds(21:31:17) (Thu Jul 01)~$ dict linux
3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Linux
n : an open-source version of the UNIX operating system
From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) [jargon]:
Linux /lee'nuhks/ or /li'nuks/, _not_ /li:'nuhks/ n. The free Unix
workalike created by Linus Torvalds and friends starting about 1991. The
pronunciation /li'nuhks/ is preferred because the name `Linus' has an
/ee/ sound in Swedish (Linus's family is part of Finland's 6%
ethnic-Swedish minority) and Linus considers English short /i/ to be
closer to /ee/ than English long /i:/. This may be the most remarkable
hacker project in history -- an entire clone of Unix for 386, 486 and
Pentium micros, distributed for free with sources over the net (ports to
Alpha and Sparc and many other machines are also in use).
the above is an example
Nine dictionary databases have been packaged for debian. They are:
.
dict-web1913 - 1913 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
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-vera - List of acronyms used in the field 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
.
[tom@symonds(21:31:54) (Thu Jul 01)~$ apt-cache show dictd
Package: dictd
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 396
Maintainer: Kirk Hilliard <kirk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.9.14-1
Provides: dict-server
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), netbase, adduser,
dictzip
Recommends: dict | dict-client
Suggests: dict-gcide | dict-web1913, dict-wn, dict-jargon, dict-foldoc
Filename: pool/main/d/dictd/dictd_1.9.14-1_i386.deb
Size: 119730
MD5sum: bd127c1561003b28cbcb9f9680da8ca9
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.
.
Many dictionary databases have been packaged for debian. They are
discussed in more detail in the file
/usr/doc/dictd/README.Debian.gz
I have been trying to look for a redhat replica
no avail
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Best Regards
Tom Jose Tharayil
tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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