Panu Matilainen writes:
From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai(a)welho.com>
Quoting Ossama Khayaat <ossamak(a)nht.com.kw>:
> 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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