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  #       $OpenBSD$
- #       @(#)README      5.1 (Berkeley) 5/7/91
+ #       @(#)README      8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
- WEB ---- (introduction provided by jaw@riacs) -------------------------
+ --------------------------------------------------------------------
+ FILES and subdirectories of /usr/share/dict:
- Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.
+     words    -- common words, and important technical terms from all
- The 1934 copyright has elapsed, according to the supplier.  The
+                 fields, that are spelled the same in British and American usage.
- supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted
+     web2     -- Webster's Second International Dictionary, all 234,936 words
- noun and adverbial phrases.  The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.
+                 worth.  The 1934 copyright has elapsed.
+     web2a    -- hyphenated terms as well as assorted noun and adverbial phrases
+                 from Webster's Second International Dictionary.
+     propernames -- List of proper names, also from Webster's Second
+                 International Dictionary.
+     american -- spellings preferred in American but not British usage.
+     british  -- spellings preferred in British but not American usage.
+     stop     -- forms that would otherwise be derivable by "spell" from
+                 words in one of the above files, but should not be accepted.
+     README   -- this file
+     papers/  -- an (out-of-date specialized) bibliographical database,
+                 used as the default by the program "refer".
+     special/ -- directory of less common terms from specialized fields.
+         It presently contains:
-      -- James A. Woods    {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw    (or jaw@riacs)
+         special/4bsd -- commands and system calls (from filenames in
+             /usr/share/man/man[1238]), and builtin csh commands (named in
+             /usr/share/man/man1/csh.1) of the current version of 4bsd Unix.
+             (Supersedes old "/usr/src/usr.bin/spell/local".)
+         special/math -- some mathematical terms not in /usr/share/dict/words.
+ --------------------------------------------------------------------
+ The subdirectory "special" contains lists of words in specialized fields,
+ which may be hashed in with the regular lists on machines having many users
+ working in these fields.  As of this writing, there are two such specialized
+ word lists, 4bsd and math (described briefly above).
+ It is advised that system managers create a directory /usr/local/share/dict.
+ This can be used to maintain files of particular interest to users of each
+ machine (e.g., surnames of members of the department on a departmental
+ machine).  These files, potentially along with files in /usr/share/dict/special,
+ should be placed in /usr/local/share/dict/words, which will be used by
+ the spell program.  The following example creates a local words list
+ consisting of 4BSD commands and terms as well as local surnames and
+ acronyms:
+         # sort -df /usr/share/dict/special/4bsd \
+                 /usr/local/share/dict/surnames \
+                 /usr/local/share/dict/acronyms > /usr/local/share/dict/words
+ Note that word lists must be sorted in dictionary order and with case folded.
+ In general this means they should be passed through "sort -df".
+ Word lists that are not sorted in this way will not work properly
+ with the spell and look commands since these perform binary searches
+ on the word lists.