From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 13 19:57:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA13228 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 19:57:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA13223 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 19:57:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA05575; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 19:57:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 19:57:37 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: Weird idea. :) In-Reply-To: <19970314002509.PZ39865@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > We do already have some multi-megabyte dictionary files in > /usr/share/dict. However -- we don't have the jargon file. Not only > that this can often serve as a good documentation in particular for > newbies, but it's also a very fine source for random text (while the > normal word lists only contain ordered text). > > The dictionaries are an optional distribution part anyway, so only > people who are interested will need to install them. > > Opinions? Not that my opinion counts for bupkes, but I think this is a very good idea, for exactly the reasons you mention. > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."