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Old 02-04-2011
Consult the documentation for myprog - whatever that is.

If whoever wrote it was kind enough to write a man page for it, then use man myprog, or an info page - use info myprog, otherwise read whatever documentation there is for myprog.

-d is an option to the program, and dictionary is an argument to that option. You're supposed to replace dictionary with, I presume, the name of a dictionary.

I'm closing this thread. Please read the documentation for the program you are referring to. If you need help understanding the general concepts then consult our man pages, which contain hundreds of commands, most of which take options just like "myprog" - whatever that is - does.
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catdic

CATDIC(1)						      General Commands Manual							 CATDIC(1)

NAME

       catdic - Download a dictionary

SYNOPSIS

       catdic [{-cs|-cannaserver} canna-server] [-i|-u user-name] remote-dic [-l local-file]

DESCRIPTION

       catdic  downloads  a  dictionary  file  to the current directory.  The file downloaded is a dictionary file the dictionary name of which is
       remote-dic.  It is in the user dictionary directory of the machine on which cannaserver(1M) is in operation.  (Hereafter, this  machine	is
       called the remote host.)

OPTIONS

       -cs canna-server (or -cannaserver canna-server)
		   Specifies the name of the server machine that contains a dictionary to be downloaded.

       -i	   Downloads the system dictionary.

       -u user-name
		   Specifies the user name.  Another user's dictionary can be referenced by this user name.

       -l local-file
		   local-file is the dictionary file name.  If it is omitted, the standard output will be assumed.

EXAMPLES

	 % catdic test

       Outputs the contents of dictionary file ``test'' on the remote host, to the standard output.

	 % catdic test -l test2.t

       Downloads dictionary file ``test'' on the remote host to current directory file ``test2.t''.

SEE ALSO

       cannaserver(1M), lsdic(1), mkdic(1)

																	 CATDIC(1)