Andreas Tille wrote:
> Well, the toast issue is fixed, but
> 
>     $ dictl -d wn test
>     No definitions found for "test", perhaps you mean:
>     wn:  tent
This one was my fault. I didn't put the index entries words into
ascii-order; specifically I ordered them case-insensitively, but wrote them
to the index file without clobbering case.
However, after looking at the other index files shipped by debian and doing
some empirical tests, it looks like dict-lookups are done case-insensitively
in any event, so the fixed version simply writes the words to the file in
the same order, but converted to all lowercase.
Once again, this fixes this issue for me. I wonder how many more there are.

I'm taking some small comfort in the fact that the wnfilter output was
subtly wrong for some entries back when it worked, as well.
If we can get the dictd-format issues fixed, the databases built by
wordnet_structures should actually be slightly better.

> and you are right that to-do works.  I have the impression that dict
> is a little bit picky about its format.  Many thanks for your effort
> anyway.  I'm very positive that we will finally be able to upload
> WordNet 3.0 with a working dict-wn package.
I hope you are right about this.

Regards,
Sebastian Hagen

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