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
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)