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Look up computer jargon in the Terminal
Authored by: Anonymous on Nov 17, '04 11:37:00AM
Just type:
$ dict zork
dict searches the jargon file, among many others.
$ dict -D
Databases available:
  elements   Elements database 20001107
  web1913    Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
  wn         WordNet (r) 2.0
  gazetteer  U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
  jargon     Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001)
  foldoc     The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
  easton     Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
  hitchcock  Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)
  devils     THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
  world02    CIA World Factbook 2002
  vera       Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
If you only want the jargon file, you can type:
$ dict -d jargon zork

Don't have dict? Just type
$ fink install dict

Don't have fink? You really should: http://fink.sf.net/



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Look up computer jargon in the Terminal
Authored by: MichaelBuckley on Nov 17, '04 12:36:33PM

The advantage of the jarg command over dict is that you can index any version of the jarg file that you want. As you can see in your post, the jargon file searched is version 4.3.0. The current version, released in December 2003, is 4.4.7.



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Look up computer jargon in the Terminal
Authored by: outer on Nov 18, '04 06:45:18PM

Sadly POT is no longer fully supported by jarg: YMMV. I found I had to manually edit jarg447.txt to remove the letter-by-letter alphabetic indices; and then manually edit jarg.idx to remove spurious entries caused by lines beginning with ":". Sigh. I eventually ended up with 02309 unique entries.



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