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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers nt to unix dictionary Post 26299 by gsumers on Wednesday 14th of August 2002 12:28:38 PM
Old 08-14-2002
thanks for suggestion, but I think I'm too much of a Unix newbie to make one that's very robust (at least not for a few months ? years?) I was hoping there's a Unix oldie out there who may have wanted to help pave the path for those like me who will be frequently alternating between NT and Unix
 

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gnome-dictionary(1)					      General Commands Manual					       gnome-dictionary(1)

NAME
gnome-dictionary - Look up words on dictionaries SYNOPSIS
gnome-dictionary gnome-dictionary [options] or select Dictionary from the Accessories submenu of the Applications menu. DESCRIPTION
GNOME Dictionary provides dictionary definitions of words, using a dictionary source. For full documentation see the GNOME Dictionary online help. OPTIONS
--look-up word Looks up the specified word using the pre-defined dictionary source. -s source or --source source Uses the specified source for looking up words. This does not affect the global settings. -l or --list-sources Lists all the sources available. -n or --no-window Using this switch with the --look-up will print the definitions found on the console without launching the GUI. --help Display help information. CONFIGURATION
All the configuration is handled using GConf. AUTHOR
GNOME Dictionary was originally written by Spiros Papadimitriou (<spapadim+@cs.cmu.edu>), Mike Hughes (<mfh@psilord.com>) and Bradford Hov- inen (<hovinen@udel.edu>). Emmanuele Bassi (<ebassi@gmail.com>) rewrote it from scratch. This manual page was originally written by Jochen Voss <voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de>. SEE ALSO
dict(1), dictd(8), http://www.dict.org/, RFC 2229 gnome-utils 2.13.4 Jan 2 2005 gnome-dictionary(1)
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