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| author | uebayasi <uebayasi@pkgsrc.org> | 2002-12-27 03:14:12 +0000 |
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| committer | uebayasi <uebayasi@pkgsrc.org> | 2002-12-27 03:14:12 +0000 |
| commit | f793001c526fac4fc65adfdca77228fffb59f7de (patch) | |
| tree | 1a369b724d104b211f977cdaf5ad808463a387aa /textproc | |
| parent | e8fb442b2dec43e2e3d5afa64331c68c5c63b759 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-f793001c526fac4fc65adfdca77228fffb59f7de.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/textproc/dict-dictionaries/DESCR b/textproc/dict-dictionaries/DESCR index ad209008609..6b528d2660f 100644 --- a/textproc/dict-dictionaries/DESCR +++ b/textproc/dict-dictionaries/DESCR @@ -1,13 +1,12 @@ -The Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) is a TCP transaction based -query/response protocol that allows a client to access dictionary -definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases. +Dictionary data distributed for The Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT). +These data are converted to DICT format and distributed by DICT +project. The dictionaries are -dictd(8) is a server which supports the DICT protocol. +* Easton * Elements * FOLDOC * Hitchcock +* Jargon * U.S Gazetteer * Webstar 1913 * WordNet +* World95 -dictzip(1) is a compression program which creates compressed files in the -gzip format (see RFC 1952). However, unlike gzip(1), dictzip(1) compresses -the file in pieces and stores an index to the pieces in the gzip header. -This allows random access to the file at the granularity of the compressed -pieces (currently about 64kB) while maintaining good compression ratios -(within 5% of the expected ratio for dictionary data). dictd(8) uses files -stored in this format. +See READMEs in distfiles for details of each dictionary. + +[ Don't hesitate to request us another DICT-formatted free dictionary + data to be included, if you know any. ] |