Running Dictd server

[Janina Sajka]

Panu Matilainen writes:
> From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at welho.com>
> 
> Quoting Ossama Khayaat <ossamak at 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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