Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:41:50 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: anybody know where "words.db" is? Message-ID: <20081214054150.GA76397@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20081214031247.GA90803@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20081214013954.GA56757@thought.org> <20081214031247.GA90803@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:12:47PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Dec 13), Gary Kline said: > > I'm trying to build a rhyming diction on FBSD. am missing something > > i thought we had. my linux download is mizzing it. i also checked > > on my ubuntu computer. locate can't find "words.db" either. any > > ideas? > > Are you maybe looking for /usr/share/dict/words ? If not, you'll have > to tell us what you expect words.db to contain. > well, apologies to anybody who puzzled at my post. i finally looked at the makefile. it uses the gnu "gdbm" and the textfiles, words.txt, rhymes.txt, and multiple.txt to create the database files. and thus build the rhyme dictionary. okay, after an hour++ i finally located the *.txt files. i have them in the directory with the rest of the stuff. it is largely from cmu. from public domain and with soe lexigraphical work. the gotcha is that the TEXTFILE line in the makefile doesn't do anything. it just lists the three txt files. it is nowhere further references. my question is pretty simple: given the words.txt, how do i create words.db? same with the rest of it.... it's great that somebody from cmu, or wherever, grabbed this stuff, but the makefile is incomplete. gary ps: sorry, this is purely a cmdline tool!! > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.12a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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