tkdict - a perl client for accessing network dictionary servers
tkdict [OPTIONS]
tkdict is a Perl/Tk client for the Dictionary server protocol (DICT), which is used to query natural dictionaries hosted on a remote machine.
At the moment it's not very user oriented, since I've just been creating an interface to the protocol.
There is more information available in the Help menu when running tkdict.
The hostname for the DICT server.
Specify the port for connections (default is 2628, from RFC 2229).
Specify the CLIENT identification string sent to the DICT server.
Display a short help message including command-line options.
Display the full documentation for tkdict.
Display the version of tkdict
Display verbose information as tkdict runs.
Display debugging information as tkdict runs. Useful mainly for developers.
tkdict doesn't know how to handle firewalls.
The authentication aspects of RFC 2229 aren't currently supported.
See the ToDo page under the Help menu.
The DICT home page, with all sorts of useful information. There are a number of other DICT clients available.
The C dict client written by Rik Faith; the options are pretty much lifted from Rik's client.
The document which defines the DICT network protocol.
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc2229.html
The perl module which implements the client API for RFC 2229. It includes a command-line perl client, dict, as well as tkdict.
$Revision: 1.1.1.1 $
Neil Bowers <neil@bowers.com>
Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Neil Bowers. All rights reserved.
This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Net::Dict, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Net::Dict
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Net::Dict
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.