topic Re: dictionary / unix in Operating System - HP-UX

dictionary / unix

Fred Martin_1 — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 14:36:46 GMT

Is it possible to dump out in readable form, the words in the HP-UX 'spell' dictionary? I'm reading the 'spell' man pages put not getting anywhere.

Re: dictionary / unix

Abdul Rahiman — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 15:33:17 GMT

From looking at the spell man page, I think the spelling word list may be a proprietery information kept by the vendor. What is available on the system in /usr/share/dict/ are the hashlists of the words and we may not be able to decode the hashcodes unless we know the hashing algorithm used.

What are you trying to do? If you want to add custom words to the dictionary, there is a process outlined in the spell's man page.

Re: dictionary / unix

Ken Penland_1 — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 15:44:12 GMT

In looking at man pages and playing with the tools, it looks to me like they went through some pains to make it so you could NOT view the contents of the file.

Re: dictionary / unix

Fred Martin_1 — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 15:55:31 GMT

Ok not a problem, to be honest I was just going to spit out a list and paw through the six-letter words looking for good hostnames :)

Re: dictionary / unix

Rodney Hills — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 16:45:48 GMT

We've used Greek/Roman gods for our servers. It's easy to find a list on the web.

HTH

-- Rod Hills

Re: dictionary / unix

Michael Tully — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 16:55:06 GMT

Here's what some other guys use:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=98756