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<Apr.13.08.03.05.1994.19485@math.rutgers.edu> lukeh@math.rutgers.edu (Luke Higgins):
>
>   I am trying to run a program to find anagrams for certain words and
>   need a bigger default dictionary than the one on my system (i.e.
>   /usr/dict/words.) [...] I would greatly appreciate an ftp site that has a
>   bigger "list" of words. 

If you don't care much about misspellings and a frew non-words; I've found the
following script useful.  Especially if you want a rather wierd dictionary
you can try something like:

%makedict /usr/spool/news/{alt.pyrotechnics,alt.sex.bondage,comp.unix.internals}/* > dict

-------------------------makedict---------------------------
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#
# Splits text into things that look like words and creates a dictionary
# from them.  Based on something else I've seen posted here. (sorry,
# lost the original posting).
#
while (<>) {
    split;
    for (@_) {
        y/A-Z/a-z/;
        next if $w{$_};
        next if /[^a-z0-9_]/;
        next unless /^[a-z]./;
        $w{$_}++;
    }
}
for (sort keys %w) {
    print "$_\n";
}
-------------------------makedict---------------------------

Hope this helps...

    Ron Mayer
    mayer@orthanc.acuson.com

Ron Mayer (mayer@sono.uucp) wrote:

: <Apr.13.08.03.05.1994.19485@math.rutgers.edu> lukeh@math.rutgers.edu (Luke Higgins):
: >
: >   I am trying to run a program to find anagrams for certain words and
: >   need a bigger default dictionary than the one on my system (i.e.
: >   /usr/dict/words.) [...] I would greatly appreciate an ftp site that has a
: >   bigger "list" of words. 

Or if you want a really big dictionary, check out:

ftp.funet.fi:/pub/unix/security/dictionaries

They have dictionaries of many languages there, and if you have about 3 
megs to spare you can even get Webster's!

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Marc Novakowski
mnovakow@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
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