On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:29:56 -0600 "s. keeling" <keel...@nucleus.com>
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>Hi. I've two Lenny boxes, both pretty much hand-crafted (as in no
>"Desktop Environment" on install; I startx into fluxbox).
>
>On one of them, dict-client works as expected. It brings the result
>up in a pager. In the other box, no pager. It just dumps it to
>stdout. How do I change this, or track down the problem? I've looked
>at bugs.debian.org, the manpage, googled "dict pager
>site:lists.debian.org", I can't see anything pertinent in /etc/dictd.
>I have no ~/.dict*.
>
>Thanks.
This may help from man dict:
-c file or --config file
Specify the configuration file. The default is
to try ~/.dictrc and /etc/dictd/dict.conf, using the first file that
exists. If a specific con‐ figuration file is specified, then the
defaults will not be tried.
Charlie
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