tkdict - a perl client for accessing network dictionary servers

Author

       Neil Bowers <neil@bowers.com>

Copyright

       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.

perl v5.36.0                                       2022-10-15                                         TKDICT(1p)

Description

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.

Known Bugs And Limitations

       •   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.

Name

       tkdict - a perl client for accessing network dictionary servers

Options

-hserver or -hostserver
           The hostname for the DICT server.

       -pport or -portport
           Specify the port for connections (default is 2628, from RFC 2229).

       -cstring or -clientstring
           Specify the CLIENT identification string sent to the DICT server.

       -help
           Display a short help message including command-line options.

       -doc
           Display the full documentation for tkdict.

       -version
           Display the version of tkdict-verbose
           Display verbose information as tkdict runs.

       -debug
           Display debugging information as tkdict runs.  Useful mainly for developers.

       www.dict.org
           The  DICT  home page, with all sorts of useful information.  There are a number of other DICT clients
           available.

       dict
           The C dict client written by Rik Faith; the options are pretty much lifted from Rik's client.

       RFC 2229
           The document which defines the DICT network protocol.

           http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc2229.html

       Net::Dict
           The perl module which implements the client API for  RFC  2229.   It  includes  a  command-line  perl
           client, dict, as well as tkdict.