Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Brian M. Carlson]
>> Note that the w* packages provide word lists, which are important to >> many programs. One could argue that a standard Unix system should >> have a word list; at least, every Unix system I have used provides >> one. > OK. Which programs? I was only aware of ispell. Any program that needs a source of words for some reason, or even just users. One of the users I support picks machine names to fit a naming scheme of first letter and word length by grepping /usr/share/dict/words. I have test suites that use the word list as input to test hash table routines. It's a quick way to answer trivia questions or search for proper names. Etc. It's not a set of applications that's horribly compelling in terms of core system functionality, but it's one of those things that's Always Been There and hence is surprising if it's not. See previous thread about old Unix users and what we expect. :) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
