I had developed a small tk based application for Dictionary on linux,
using the linux words package. If some one is interested let me know, I
will send a copy to you. Mind you this is 1.2m bzip2 file
Thanks
Chetan S
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
> 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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