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wnintro

WNINTRO(1)						      WordNettm User Commands							WNINTRO(1)

NAME

       wnintro - WordNet user commands

SYNOPSIS

       wn - command line interface to WordNet database

       wnb - window based WordNet browser

DESCRIPTION

       This  section  of the WordNet Reference Manual contains manual pages that describe commands available with the various WordNet system pack-
       ages.

       The WordNet interfaces wn(1) and wnb(1) allow the user to search the WordNet database and display the information textually.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES (UNIX)
       WNHOME		   Base directory for WordNet.	Default is /usr/local/WordNet-3.0.

       WNSEARCHDIR	   Directory in which the WordNet database has been installed.	Default is WNHOME/dict.

REGISTRY (WINDOWS)
       HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWordNet3.0WNHome
			   Base directory for WordNet.	Default is C:Program FilesWordNet3.0.

SEE ALSO

       grind(1), wn(1), wnb(1), wnintro(3), wnintro(5), wnintro(7).

       Fellbaum, C. (1998), ed.  "WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database".  MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

AVAILABILITY

       WordNet has a World Wide Web site at http://wordnet.princeton.edu.  From this web site users can learn about the WordNet project, run  sev-
       eral different interfaces to the WordNet database, and download various WordNet system packages and "Five Papers on WordNet".

WordNet 3.0							     Dec 2006								WNINTRO(1)

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