On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 07:58 pm, Silvan wrote:
> # Older dictionary database packages did not automatically invoke
> # /usr/sbin/dictdconfig upon installation and removal, so you may
> # need to do so manually (after which, you should restart dictd).
Ah-Ha!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/bra# ll /usr/sbin/
On Sunday 04 July 2004 08:36 am, Brian Astill wrote:
> refers to mthes.txt and roger13a.txt, neither of which are on my
> system. The dict man page gives syntax, but not original setup.
Hrm. I just
aptitude install dictd dict-wn dict-moby-thesaurus
pointed KDict at it, and away I went
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 11:31 am, Silvan wrote:
> I have some experience fooling with the
> thing, but none of it recent enough to feed you exactly the right
> magic words.
Yes, that's your/my problem. My files came from (apt) debian.org so
that should be OK. Documantation seems not to cover magic
On Sunday 04 July 2004 12:12 am, Brian Astill wrote:
> moby-thesaurus.dict.dz doesn't seem to contain them (or at least I
> haven't found a way to unpack it. Arc (in KDE) shows only the one file
> within moby-thesaurus.dict.dz
You should be able to get it to go with the .dict.dz and the .index f
On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 14:12, Brian Astill wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 09:54 am, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> > Is that what you wanted?
>
> Well - it's certainly on topic! :-)
>
> this is what I find:
> # dict -d moby-thesaurus quit
> moby-thesaurus is not a valid database, use -D for a list
> No defin
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 09:54 am, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> Is that what you wanted?
Well - it's certainly on topic! :-)
this is what I find:
# dict -d moby-thesaurus quit
moby-thesaurus is not a valid database, use -D for a list
No definitions found for "quit"
and:
# dict -D moby-thesaurus
Databases av
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 04:13:46PM -0400, Brian Astill wrote:
> Anyone downlaoded this and made it work?
> I'd be pleased for some advice.
>
> I appeared to download about 12MB data - I guess these are they:
> # ll /usr/share/dictd/
> total 11060
> -rw-r--r--1 root ro
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