Re: help identifying package for /usr/share/dict

2018-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Mon 26 Mar 2018 at 23:18:05 (-0700), James Powell wrote: > I was referred here by reportbug, which says > > "If you don't know what package the bug is in, please contact > debian-user@lists.debian.org for assistance." > > I have a bug to report (see emails b

Re: help identifying package for /usr/share/dict

2018-03-27 Thread tomas
.org for assistance." > > I have a bug to report (see emails below) against /usr/share/dict but > I'm unable to identify the specific Debian package responsible for > this file. I looked at the source for wamerican and miscfiles and > there's no obvious route fr

help identifying package for /usr/share/dict

2018-03-26 Thread James Powell
Hi Debian-user, I was referred here by reportbug, which says "If you don't know what package the bug is in, please contact debian-user@lists.debian.org for assistance." I have a bug to report (see emails below) against /usr/share/dict but I'm unable to identify the spe

Re: dict - phrase challenged

2014-05-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/2/14, Curt wrote: > On 2014-05-01, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> As posted already, this is the solution that works: >> >> dict ad\\\ rem > > curty@einstein:~$ dict ad\\\ rem > No definitions found for "ad\ rem" "From Dutch-English Freedict Dicti

Re: dict - phrase challenged

2014-05-01 Thread Curt
On 2014-05-01, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > As posted already, this is the solution that works: > > dict ad\\\ rem > curty@einstein:~$ dict ad\\\ rem No definitions found for "ad\ rem" This works for me: dict ipso\\ facto Which provides the same output as: dict ipso fa

Re: dict - phrase challenged

2014-04-30 Thread Doug
1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.28.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libx11-6, wordnet dict: Depends : netbase, recode, libc6 (>= 2.14), libmaa3 (>= 1.2.0) To use arthur implies using a GUI. That's why. But may be arthur works at the command line to

Re: dict - phrase challenged

2014-04-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/1/14, Slavko wrote: > Dňa Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:03:07 +0100 Lisi Reisz > napísal: >> On Wednesday 30 April 2014 14:30:20 Chris Bannister wrote: >> > What is giyf? >> >> Google Is Your Friend > > Really? Friend??? My??? Best chuckle in days. Thank you Slavko :) I am not inclined to change my

Re: dict - phrase challenged

2014-04-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/1/14, Doug wrote: > On 04/30/2014 03:22 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> Anyone know why my giyf searches and man page readings are failing to >> determine how to search the gnu/linux dictionaries for a phrase? As posted already, this is the solution that works: dict ad\\\

Re: dict - phrase challenged

2014-04-30 Thread Doug
t" appears in the definition for "coup", as a sub-definition. The OED has various phrases, not just single words. I used to have good examples of two word phrases which are primary dictionary entries. NOTE: hyphenated phrases do work as expected eg: dict helter-skelter Some no

Re: dict - phrase challenged

2014-04-30 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:03:07 +0100 Lisi Reisz napísal: > On Wednesday 30 April 2014 14:30:20 Chris Bannister wrote: > > What is giyf? > > Google Is Your Friend > Really? Friend??? My??? :P have nice day... -- Slavko http://slavino.sk signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: dict - phrase challenged

2014-04-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 14:30:20 Chris Bannister wrote: > What is giyf? Google Is Your Friend HTH Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2014043015

Re: dict - phrase challenged

2014-04-30 Thread Chris Bannister
t; appears in the definition for "coup", as a > sub-definition. Sure, coup is a word, and "coup d'etat" is an example of its usage. You might be better off bringing up any concerns with the content of the dict package(s) with the upstream contributors. P.S. Just beca

Re: dict - phrase challenged

2014-04-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
d examples of two word phrases which are primary dictionary >> entries. >> >> NOTE: hyphenated phrases do work as expected eg: >> dict helter-skelter >> >> Some non-hyphenated phrases from dictionary dot com's word of the day: >> coup d'etat

Re: dict - phrase challenged

2014-04-30 Thread Darac Marjal
:) > > For example "coup d'etat" appears in the definition for "coup", as a > sub-definition. > > The OED has various phrases, not just single words. I used to have > good examples of two word phrases which are primary dictionary > entries. > >

dict - phrase challenged

2014-04-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
uot;, as a sub-definition. The OED has various phrases, not just single words. I used to have good examples of two word phrases which are primary dictionary entries. NOTE: hyphenated phrases do work as expected eg: dict helter-skelter Some non-hyphenated phrases from dictionary dot com's wor

Re: DICT: creating an .index file from a .dict.dz

2013-08-31 Thread Curt
On 2013-08-31, Franco wrote: > > So I ask you: > - Is there a way to 'rebuild' the index file from a .dict.dz one? How? > - is DICT compatible with Stardict? Is there a quick way of converting >between them? > curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache show dictco

Re: DICT: creating an .index file from a .dict.dz

2013-08-31 Thread green
Franco wrote at 2013-08-31 08:24 -0500: > I was searching the Internet to find an Italian vocabulary to use with > `dict` > - Is there a way to 'rebuild' the index file from a .dict.dz one? How? > - is DICT compatible with Stardict? Is there a q

DICT: creating an .index file from a .dict.dz

2013-08-31 Thread Franco
Hello everybody, I was searching the Internet to find an Italian vocabulary to use with `dict` [1]. Aso you might know, `dict` needs two files, a '.dict.dz' one and an '.index' file. After a bit of searching, I found a page with an Italian Stardict vocabulary [2]. Pro

/usr/hsare/dict/words

2010-08-27 Thread Aaron Toponce
Why isn't /usr/share/dict/words managed by alternatives? Why does it point to /etc/dictionaries-common/words which in turn points back to /usr/share/dict/american-english (for me)? Wouldn't the alternatives system be perfect for this? Just curious. Thanks, -- . O . O . O . . O O

Re: Help with dict-client in Lenny?

2009-08-26 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
s. keeling wrote: > Charlie : >> On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:29:56 -0600 "s. keeling" >> shared this with us all: >> >> >Hi. I've two Lenny boxes, both pretty much hand-crafted (as in no >> >"Desktop Environment" on install; I sta

Re: Help with dict-client in Lenny?

2009-08-25 Thread s. keeling
Charlie : > On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:29:56 -0600 "s. keeling" > shared this with us all: > > >Hi. I've two Lenny boxes, both pretty much hand-crafted (as in no > >"Desktop Environment" on install; I startx into fluxbox). > > > >On

Re: Help with dict-client in Lenny?

2009-05-10 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:29:56 -0600 "s. keeling" shared this with us all: >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 brin

Help with dict-client in Lenny?

2009-05-10 Thread s. keeling
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

is it possible to use dict with http://www.thefreedictionary.com

2005-07-16 Thread bxuefeng
Hi Debianers, I found http://www.thefreedictionary.com to be very powerful and useful. (no advertisement intended:) Is there a way to use dict search words from this site? Also, the dictionaries I am using for dict are quite outdated (webster 1913) are there any dict native dictionaries that I

Re: Contributing to dict-freedict-* databases?

2004-07-16 Thread Ryan Waye
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:34:21 GMT, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't feel qualified to be a package maintainer but I would like to > contribute content to some of the freedict bilingual dictionaries. How > would I do this? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with

Contributing to dict-freedict-* databases?

2004-07-16 Thread Adam Funk
I don't feel qualified to be a package maintainer but I would like to contribute content to some of the freedict bilingual dictionaries. How would I do this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Openoffice install in sid (/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict)

2003-09-26 Thread Rene Engelhard
Martin Jungowski wrote: > Have you tried "apt-get -f install"? If so, what did that return, any > errors? apt-get -f install does not work in this case, it moreover would just remove all OOo pkgs... > It seems that the script is missing some directory in /usr/lib. right. > I did an apt-get dist

Re: Openoffice install in sid (/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict)

2003-09-25 Thread Martin Jungowski
Life with Sid -- dist-upgrade trying to update Openoffice.org: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict > -bash: cd: /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict: No such file or directory > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /usr/lib/openoffice/share/ > autocorr basic dtdgalle

Re: Openoffice install in sid (/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict)

2003-09-25 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Bill Moseley wrote: > Life with Sid -- dist-upgrade trying to update Openoffice.org: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict > -bash: cd: /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict: No such file or directory > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /usr/lib/openoffice/share/

Openoffice install in sid (/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict)

2003-09-25 Thread Bill Moseley
Life with Sid -- dist-upgrade trying to update Openoffice.org: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict -bash: cd: /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /usr/lib/openoffice/share/ autocorr basic dtdgallery psprint registry

Re: dict dictionaries

2002-10-08 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 04:36:48PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > How do I tell dict to use, for example, the english-french or > french-english dictionary? Where $DICTIONARY is as it appears within the square brackets before the definition: dict -d $DICTIONARY $WORD man dict for more d

dict dictionaries

2002-10-08 Thread Rick Pasotto
How do I tell dict to use, for example, the english-french or french-english dictionary? -- "Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least." -- Robert Byrne Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

/usr/dict/words

1999-01-27 Thread Gossamer
My system, with wenglish installed, contains the EMPTY directory /usr/dict and has the dictionary in /usr/share/dict/words This makes some of my programs choke, as they're expecting /usr/dict/words as standard. I guess the /usr/share/dict is the fsstnd? That's OK, but putting

Re: Dict

1998-05-31 Thread Bob Hilliard
Alan Eugene Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed all I could get hold of, of dict*. I snarfed it a couple > or three weeks ago off Incoming. I noticed there is no Webster's. > Perhaps there should be a note? By the way, where can I get ahold of > the