The Tuesday 2004-09-28 at 21:32 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
It's always in the recent applications section of my KDE menu, so I'll have to go looking for it's original home... There it is. It's in the "Office..." sub-menu of the KDE menu. Assuming you installed it.
and is available from the cl as 'dict'. Much easier to use this way.
It is also possible to use the local dictd daemon, with databases downloaded from the web. Faster, specially for those like me without a permanent network connection ;-) For example, the "Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)" is available. Too old, of course. I wonder about the MIT one that Randall mentioned :-? Then, there are some that do not follow the standard, like the spanish dictionary of the RAE ("http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltGUIBusUsual?TIPO_HTML=2&LEMA=$1") -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson