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Old 02-04-2009
Unix dictionary.

Hey,

I am looking for an inbuilt unix dictionary.I tried to look at the path /usr/dict/word and I do not find anything any dict directory in the /usr folder. Can anyone please tell me how to find out this dictionary?

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Lee.
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Old 02-06-2009
Download and install GNU's aspell. You can download one of several free dictionaries located at that site and put them anywhere you want. They use some kind of special format, however, so if you want a list of words, I'm not sure this will work for you.
 
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