[NTLUG:Discuss] Any online dictionary?

[Kevin Brannen]

Check out Project Guttenburg (http://promo.net/pg/) and you'll find a
dictionary or two there.  It's HUGE (45M unzipped) and it's HTML.  I
wrote a perl script to break it up by pages and create an index page
with the first word of every page as a link to the page.  You're welcome
to the script (I'm pretty sure I know where it is. :-)

Yes, not quite what you requested, but it's the only free one I could
think of.  Since you'd have all the text, it probably wouldn't be too
hard to take the dictionary, strip the HTML, then write a perl/TK
interface to throw out the browser.  Sounds like a pretty easy hack...

Kevin


Ali Naddaf wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone.
> Does anyone know of any command-line or GUI interface to any online
> dictionary such as Webster or Oxford? I prefer to use a simple interface
> rather than a web browser.
> 
> Many thanks, Ali.
> 
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