Suresh Ramasubramanian proclaimed:
> On 14/07/00 22:09 +0530, Ajitkumar spewed into the LI bitstream:
> >Is there some online dictionary (like word web for windows) for linux?
> spell, ispell, aspell
Actually, all of those are spell checkers.
Look at http://www.dict.org/ The dict protocol is an open way of
connecting to a dictionary server and looking up the meaning of words.
Here are some applications that use the dict protocol:
1. The dict website had the dictd (dictionary server) and dict (dictionary
client) available for download. The dict client is a versatile command
line tool to look up the meaning of words either from the internet or from
a server running on your local machine.
2. gdict. This is a graphical application (requires gtk libraries to be
installed) that is equivalent to the dict client.
3. gaspell. The graphical gtk-based aspell spell checker with dict
support. A very nice application, even though I say so myself [1].
Thaths
[1] dict support for gaspell happens through libdict which is one of my
hacks.
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