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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Longest word composed of Unix commands
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Date: 13 Dec 90 00:13:35 GMT
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sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) writes:

:I ran this on an Ultrix system and the longest words
:produced were
:    watershed
:    prescript
:    fingertip
:    predicate
:    extricate
:    flintlock
:    printmake
:    collinear
:    manometric
:    manuscript
:    communique
:    testicular
:    clearheaded
:    fingerprint
:don't waste too much time running this ...

Neat.

But don't you know that telling someone not to something is the best way
to get it to happen? :-)

This one took ~600 CPU seconds on a 2.5 megabyte dictionary.

--tom

<<<8 CHARS>>>
arcuated
arvicole
asellate
assorted
calendar
calfkill
Colville
diffused
dullhead
dulseman
educated
educatee
errorful
excalate
excudate
expanded
extrared
exuviate
eyestalk
farewell
fattrels
feedhead
fingered
flathead
flatware
flatweed
flockman
Fulfulde
headlock
headwall
headwear
hostname
indented
indentee
killcalf
killweed
makefile
mandatee
Manville
morefold
prateful
predwell
preprint
preshare
presumed
pretreat
producal
revulsed
shadbush
shareman
shearman
shelfful
shellful
shellman
sleepful
spellful
sufflate
suffused
tailhead
tartrate
ultrared
unmassed
unmeated
unmudded
unmulled
untalked
viduated
wellhead

9 CHARS:
clearcole
clearweed
commodate
compacted
cucullate
exululate
fatheaded
fingertip
flintlock
manducate
preassume
predefeat
predetail
predetest
prescript
printmake
sheartail
shellhead
shepstare
splittail
strippage
subcellar
sulfatase
tartrated
timeshare
uncompact
unicelled
watershed
windowful
windowman

<<<10 CHARS>>>
astipulate
communique
exsufflate
extipulate
loggerhead
manuscript
prediction
prefearful
preinstall
proflogger
sheepshead
stringsman
tartarated
unexpanded
unicellate
unmodelled

<<<11 CHARS>>>
clearheaded
fingerprint
printscript
splitfinger
subcultrate
uncompacted
unicellular
unmeditated
unmodulated

<<<12 CHARS>>>
killeekillee
loggerheaded
unmedullated
--
Tom Christiansen		tchrist@convex.com	convex!tchrist
"With a kernel dive, all things are possible, but it sure makes it hard
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