From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 14 05:42:05 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 83E371065676 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:42:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 275C28FC1D for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:42:05 +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 mBE5gRiW066435; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:42:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:41:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:41:50 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Dan Nelson Message-ID: <20081214054150.GA76397@thought.org> References: <20081214013954.GA56757@thought.org> <20081214031247.GA90803@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081214031247.GA90803@dan.emsphone.com> 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 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: anybody know where "words.db" is? 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: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:42:05 -0000 On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:12:47PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Dec 13), Gary Kline said: > > I'm trying to build a rhyming diction on FBSD. am missing something > > i thought we had. my linux download is mizzing it. i also checked > > on my ubuntu computer. locate can't find "words.db" either. any > > ideas? > > Are you maybe looking for /usr/share/dict/words ? If not, you'll have > to tell us what you expect words.db to contain. > well, apologies to anybody who puzzled at my post. i finally looked at the makefile. it uses the gnu "gdbm" and the textfiles, words.txt, rhymes.txt, and multiple.txt to create the database files. and thus build the rhyme dictionary. okay, after an hour++ i finally located the *.txt files. i have them in the directory with the rest of the stuff. it is largely from cmu. from public domain and with soe lexigraphical work. the gotcha is that the TEXTFILE line in the makefile doesn't do anything. it just lists the three txt files. it is nowhere further references. my question is pretty simple: given the words.txt, how do i create words.db? same with the rest of it.... it's great that somebody from cmu, or wherever, grabbed this stuff, but the makefile is incomplete. gary ps: sorry, this is purely a cmdline tool!! > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.12a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php