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 NAME     
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 SYNOPSIS     
 |  |  |  | dict [ −k ] [ −d dictname ] [ −c command ] [ pattern ] adict [
    −d dictname ] [ pattern ] 
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 DESCRIPTION     
 |  |  |  | Dict is a dictionary browser. If a pattern is given on the command
    line, dict prints all matching entries; otherwise it repeatedly
    accepts and executes commands. The options are −d dictname   Use the given dictionary. A list of available dictionaries
    is printed by option −d?. The default is the first dictionary
    on the list that is installed on the system.
 −c command   Execute one command and quit. The command syntax is
    described below.
 −k         Print a pronunciation key. 
    
    
    Patterns are regular expressions (see regexp(7)), with an implicit
    leading ^ and trailing $. Patterns are matched against an index
    of headwords and variants, to form a ‘match set’. By default,
    both patterns and the index are folded: upper case characters
    are mapped into their lower case equivalents, and Latin accented
    characters are mapped into their
    non-accented equivalents. In interactive mode, there is always
    a ‘current match set’ and a ‘current entry’ within the match set.
    Commands can change either or both, as well as print the entries
    or information about them. 
    
    
    Commands have an address followed by a command letter. Addresses
    have the form:
 /re/    Set the match set to all entries matching the regular expression
    re, sorted in dictionary order. Set the current entry to the first
    of the match set.
 !re!    Like /re/ but use exact matching, i.e., without case and accent
    folding.
 n      An integer n means change the current entry to the nth of the
    current match set.
 #n     The integer n is an absolute byte offset into the raw dictionary.
    (See the A command, below.)
 addr+   After setting the match set and current entry according to
    addr, change the match set and current entry to be the next entry
    in the dictionary (not necessarily in the match set) after the
    current entry.
 addr−   Like addr+ but go to previous dictionary entry. 
    
    
    The command letters come in pairs: a lower case and the corresponding
    upper case letter. The lower case version prints something about
    the current entry only, and advances the current entry to the
    next in the match set (wrapping around to the beginning after
    the last). The upper case version prints something about all of
    the match set and resets the
    current entry to the beginning of the set.
 p,P   Print the whole entry.
 h,H   Print only the headword(s) of the entry.
 a,A   Print the dictionary byte offset of the entry.
 r,R   Print the whole entry in raw format (without translating special
    characters, etc.). 
    
    
    If no command letter is given for the first command, H is assumed.
    After an H, the default command is p. Otherwise, the default command
    is the previous command. 
    
    
    Dict searches for dictionaries in the directory named by $dictpath
    (default /usr/lib/plan9/dict). 
    
    
    Adict is a dictionary browser for acme(1). When run with no arguments,
    it creates a new acme window named /adict/ listing the installed
    dictionaries. Clicking with button 3 on a dictionary name will
    create a new empty window named /adict/dict/. Typing and then
    clicking on a pattern in this window will create a new lookup
    window named
    /adict/dict/pattern containing the dictionary’s definition of
    pattern. Clicking with button 3 on any word in this new window
    will create new lookup windows. 
    
    
    If adict is run with a pattern , it starts with the /adict/dict/pattern
    window. 
    
    
    If adict is run with no pattern but with a −d option, it starts
    with the /adict/dict/ window.
 
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 |  |  |  | A font with wide coverage of the Unicode Standard should be used
    for best results. (Try /usr/lib/plan9/font/pelm/unicode.9.font.)
    
    
    
    If the pattern doesn’t begin with a few literal characters, matching
    takes a long time. 
    
    
    The dictionaries are not distributed outside Bell Labs, though
    see /usr/lib/plan9/dict/README for
    information on using free dictionaries prepared by Project Gutenberg. 
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