Charlie <aries...@clearmail.com.au>: > On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:29:56 -0600 "s. keeling" <keel...@nucleus.com> > shared this with us all: > > >Hi. I've two Lenny boxes, both pretty much hand-crafted (as in no > >"Desktop Environment" on install; I startx into fluxbox). > > > >On one of them, dict-client works as expected. It brings the result > >up in a pager. In the other box, no pager. It just dumps it to > >stdout. How do I change this, or track down the problem? I've looked
Sorry it took so long to find your reply; seems to happen to me a lot. This was useful, thanks. /etc/dictd/dict.conf contains: # pager most server localhost server dict.org server dict0.us.dict.org server alt0.dict.org I uncomment the pager line and get: /etc/dictd/dict.conf:17: syntax error, unexpected TOKEN_STRING, expecting TOKEN_SERVER /etc/dictd/dict.conf:17: pager most /etc/dictd/dict.conf:17: ^^^^^ dict (yyerror): parse error most is installed. > This may help from man dict: > > -c file or --config file > Specify the configuration file. The default is > to try ~/.dictrc and /etc/dictd/dict.conf, using the first file that Again, thanks. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
