From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 24 12:43:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA12583 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 12:43:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mph124b.rh.psu.edu (MPH124B.rh.psu.edu [128.118.126.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA12473 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 12:42:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@pobox.com) From: gsutter@pobox.com Received: from localhost (gsutter@localhost) by mph124b.rh.psu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA27809; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 15:42:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gsutter@pobox.com) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 15:42:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender: gsutter@mph124b.rh.psu.edu To: Dave Hummel cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dictionary/word-a-day program In-Reply-To: <01IW92ULFHXY9M4GCD@BUFFALOSTATE.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Dave Hummel wrote: >Does a definition-giving dictionary or word-a-day >program exist for UNIX? How about text files that >have words and definitions that could be used as a >basis for such programs? Webster is a definition-giving dictionary. I'm afraid I don't remember where to find it, though. Alternatively, you could subscribe to AWAD, the A Word A Day mailing list. Check it out at http://wordsmith.org/ GReg -- Gregory S. Sutter "How do I read this file?" mailto:gsutter@pobox.com "You uudecode it." http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ "I I I decode it?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message