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Date:      Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:23:57 +0200
From:      Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro>
To:        Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
Cc:        Bryan Cassidy <b_cassidy@bellsouth.net>
Subject:   Re: Dictionary in ports? 
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20031115141432.016aba38@mail.apropo.ro>
In-Reply-To: <200311141158.hAEBwBJC003591@peedub.jennejohn.org>
References:  <Message from Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> <5.1.0.14.0.20031115125622.016bb738@mail.apropo.ro>

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At 13:58 14.11.2003, Gary Jennejohn wrote:

>Ion-Mihai Tetcu writes:
> > At 07:06 14.11.2003, Bryan Cassidy wrote:
> > >Is there a stand-alone dictionary port? I would like to have one on the
> > >pc cause im gettin tired of goin online. thanks
> >
> > net/dictd server and various databases ( net/dictd-database and
> > http://www.dict.org/ )
> >
> > On KDE one can use kdict to query the dictd server.
>
>He wrote that he doesn't want to go online to use a dictionary.
>
>The only standalone dictionary I know of in ports is for German (de-dict).

buh# cat /usr/ports/net/dictd-database/pkg-descr
Dictd words database.

buh# cd /usr/ports/net/dictd-database/ && make install clean
buh# ifconfig rl0 down
Alt+F2 --> kdict --> OK
type some word and see the entries.

You can grep additional dictd databases from that URL.


IOnut



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