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1.3     ! millert     1: #      $OpenBSD: README,v 1.2 2001/02/03 08:16:22 niklas Exp $
1.2       niklas      2:
1.3     ! millert     3: #      @(#)README      8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
1.1       deraadt     4:
1.3     ! millert     5: --------------------------------------------------------------------
        !             6: FILES and subdirectories of /usr/share/dict:
1.1       deraadt     7:
1.3     ! millert     8:     words    -- common words, and important technical terms from all
        !             9:                fields, that are spelled the same in British and American usage.
        !            10:     web2     -- Webster's Second International Dictionary, all 234,936 words
        !            11:                worth.  The 1934 copyright has elapsed.
        !            12:     web2a    -- hyphenated terms as well as assorted noun and adverbial phrases
        !            13:                from Webster's Second International Dictionary.
        !            14:     propernames -- List of proper names, also from Webster's Second
        !            15:                International Dictionary.
        !            16:     american -- spellings preferred in American but not British usage.
        !            17:     british  -- spellings preferred in British but not American usage.
        !            18:     stop     -- forms that would otherwise be derivable by "spell" from
        !            19:                words in one of the above files, but should not be accepted.
        !            20:     README   -- this file
        !            21:     papers/  -- an (out-of-date specialized) bibliographical database,
        !            22:                used as the default by the program "refer".
        !            23:     special/ -- directory of less common terms from specialized fields.
        !            24:        It presently contains:
1.1       deraadt    25:
1.3     ! millert    26:        special/4bsd -- commands and system calls (from filenames in
        !            27:            /usr/share/man/man[1238]), and builtin csh commands (named in
        !            28:            /usr/share/man/man1/csh.1) of the current version of 4bsd Unix.
        !            29:            (Supersedes old "/usr/src/usr.bin/spell/local".)
        !            30:        special/math -- some mathematical terms not in /usr/share/dict/words.
1.1       deraadt    31:
1.3     ! millert    32: --------------------------------------------------------------------
        !            33:
        !            34: The subdirectory "special" contains lists of words in specialized fields,
        !            35: which may be hashed in with the regular lists on machines having many users
        !            36: working in these fields.  As of this writing, there are two such specialized
        !            37: word lists, 4bsd and math (described briefly above).
        !            38:
        !            39: It is advised that system managers create a directory /usr/local/share/dict.
        !            40: This can be used to maintain files of particular interest to users of each
        !            41: machine (e.g., surnames of members of the department on a departmental
        !            42: machine).  These files, potentially along with files in /usr/share/dict/special,
        !            43: should be placed in /usr/local/share/dict/words, which will be used by
        !            44: the spell program.  The following example creates a local words list
        !            45: consisting of 4BSD commands and terms as well as local surnames and
        !            46: acronyms:
        !            47:
        !            48:        # sort -df /usr/share/dict/special/4bsd \
        !            49:                /usr/local/share/dict/surnames \
        !            50:                /usr/local/share/dict/acronyms > /usr/local/share/dict/words
        !            51:
        !            52: Note that word lists must be sorted in dictionary order and with case folded.
        !            53: In general this means they should be passed through "sort -df".
        !            54: Word lists that are not sorted in this way will not work properly
        !            55: with the spell and look commands since these perform binary searches
        !            56: on the word lists.