From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 23:17:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11EC1065674 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:17:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F01D8FC18 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:17:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mAINHbia033865 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:17:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:17:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:17:09 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20081118231652.GA75942@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, DNS_FROM_SECURITYSAGE autolearn=no version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Subject: is threr a database for freeBSD with?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:17:14 -0000 I'm looking to write a simple program to extract stuff from Project Gutenberg's books (--of whivh there are tens ofthousands thanks to Michael HArt and his volunteers). There is no collection of metaphors in the public domain, and it wouldn't take that much coding if there were a database with word, (grammatical type), e.g. foot, n love, n run, v ugly, adj etc. It occured to me that I might take the CIDE/GCIDE database and somehow scrounge the world-list above from that. I don't think it is available on Linux. Dunno. Nutshell, it would be a major help to writers to have this kind of stuff online instead of a 17-pound book... . Thanks for ideas, as well as code snippets! gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org