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1 perry 1 WORDS
2 !!!WORDS
3 NAME
4 DESCRIPTION
5 FILES
6 SEE ALSO
7 HISTORY
8 AUTHOR
9 ----
10 !!NAME
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13 american-english - a list of english words
14 !!DESCRIPTION
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17 __/usr/share/dict/american-english__ is an ASCII file
18 which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per
19 line.
20 !!FILES
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23 ''/etc/alternatives/dictionary'' is a symbolic link to a
24 ''/usr/share/dict/'' file.
25 ''/usr/share/dict/words'' is a symbolic link to
26 ''/etc/alternatives/dictionary'', and is the name by
27 which other software should refer to the system word list.
4 perry 28 See update-alternatives(8) for more
1 perry 29 information.
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32 The directory ''/usr/share/dict'' can contain word lists
33 for many languages, with name of the language in English,
34 e.g., ''/usr/share/dict/french'' and
35 ''/usr/share/dict/danish'' contain respectively lists of
36 French and Danish words if they exist. Such lists should be
37 coded using the ISO 8859-1 character set
38 encoding.
39 !!SEE ALSO
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4 perry 42 ispell(1), update-alternatives(8), and the
1 perry 43 ''Filesystem Hierarchy Standard''.
44 !!HISTORY
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47 The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from
48 any number of sources.
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51 The system word list used to be ''/usr/dict/words''. For
52 compatibility, software should check that location if
53 ''/usr/share/dict/words'' does not exist.
54 !!AUTHOR
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57 Word lists are collected and maintained by various
58 authors.
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