* Greg Hicks (ghicks@ramko.com) [020419 15:43]:
Is there someplace to go that has a dictionary type listing of all this stuff so I can look up these terms as I run across them?
Probably the easiest is to just setup a DICT client (yes, more jargon). For example: ckm@hades: ~> dict OO ------------------------- 4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Oo \Oo\, a. One. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Oo \O"["o]\, n. [Hawaiian.] (Zo["o]l.) A beautiful bird ({Moho nobilis}) of the Hawaiian Islands. It yields the brilliant yellow feathers formerly used in making the royal robes. Called also {yellow-tufted honeysucker}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
OO {object-oriented}
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]:
OO Object Orientated ------------------------- Setting it up is easy, install the dictd package and create a file in your home directory that has the name of the dict server to use. E.g., echo "server dict.org" > ~/.dictrc You can limit which dictionaries are searched: dict -d vera would only return the last definition from the above example. -- -ckm