Gregory Lypny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I had read somewhere that it is possible to access some built-in Mac > applications, such as Dictionary, directly from the command line. > Now I was wondering whether it would also be possible to access those > applications through Revolution. I'm doing research that involves > indexing all the words in big text files. Of course, using the xTalk > definition of a word as any quoted string or string separated by one > or more spaces leaves me with many words that are not words we use in > the sense of dictionary words, things like acronyms, and others that > aren't relevant to me because they are proper nouns, such as company > or product names. So I was hoping to write a script that might check > whether each of the words in my index exists in the dictionary. > > Any thoughts would be most appreciated.
Look in /usr/share/dict for the lists of words. You might be able to use these files for your index-checker. (As an aside, why wouldn't you want proper nouns in your index if they're relevant to your topic?) - marty -- Marty Billingsley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
