Certain applications have been blessed with 9fans' ignorance for too long. dict(7) and friends seemed to be becoming over-joyous.
For those interested in Japanese on Plan 9, I provide here (edict2.tar) scripts to convert Jim Breen's extended Japanese dictionary, EDICT2, to a format usable with dict(7). However, the simple.c format was not appealing to me, so I decided to use the format Andrey proposed for converting DICTD dictionaries, thus, a patch[1] to dict(7), and the appropriate indexing application[2], are necessary in order to perform the conversion and use the resulting dictionary (the path to the indexing app must be specified in leginx.rc). Parts of adict, the Acme interface to dict(7), still presume some incapabilities of Acme that are no longer present. One I've found is the assumption that Acme tags cannot contain non-alphanumeric characters, so adict goes through the trouble of converting all such characters to underscores. The simple fix: comment lines /acme/bin/source/adict/adict.c:288 through /acme/bin/source/adict/adict.c:294 -- by the way, the source distributed with Plan 9 by default is not what the binary adict was built from; updated sources (though still lacking the above change) are in /n/sources/patch/applied/adict-fix2 However, I find Russ Cox's idea of making Acme interfaces entirely scriptable, even more appealing. For that, his acmeevent[3] from P9P is entirely portable to native Plan 9 -- no changes required. I believe the prime example he's used is a scripted version of adict, also available in P9P -- for this, I've made a few changes to the script for use on native Plan 9; see nadict.rc. by the way, has anyone looked into the venti problem Oleg F. posted about, on my behalf, earlier this month? ak [1] http://mirtchovski.com/p9/dict/dict.patch.tgz [2] http://mirtchovski.com/p9/dict/mkdictd.c [3] http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/acmeevent.c
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