Re: Running Dictd server

[Janina Sajka]

Panu Matilainen writes:
>  From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai(a)welho.com&gt;
>  
>  Quoting Ossama Khayaat <ossamak(a)nht.com.kw&gt;:
>  
>  > Hi,
>  > I need to setup dictd protocol, on my Severn machine to test the
>  > English/Arabic GPL'd wordlist we're working on in Arabeyes
>  > (www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=wordlist).
>  > I read the man pages of dict, and I understood it's a client tool, and not a
>  > server (right?).
>  > Is there a package I need to install or a place from where I can get the
>  > .tar.gz source and compile it?
>  
>  IIRC the dictd source includes both client and server, RH just doesn't package 
>  the server part of it for some reason (ok running dictd server might not be the 
>  most common thing in the world) 
Ah, but its a wonderful service and should get a proper dust off before
we reinvent it with "web services."

I'm encouraging my friends on the glossary committee in the W3C to
discover dict, for example.

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