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From: wgilbert@fatou.UWaterloo.ca (William Gilbert)
Subject: Re: /usr/dict/{web2,web2a}
Message-ID: <1991May8.144744.10089@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
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Organization: Pure Math Dept, University of Waterloo
References: <494@heaven.woodside.ca.us> <1991May8.043434.29011@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 May 1991 14:47:44 GMT
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In article <1991May8.043434.29011@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu writes:
>In <494@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:
>
>>Anybody know what "web2" and "web2a" are, and what would break if I
>>deleted them?
>>
>Perhaps renaming them and running the application that they look like
>they belong to (Webster) would show you if (at least) Webster will
>break?  I don't know how (of if) Webster would sense such a change, but
>it's worth a shot.
>
>Jeff

The same files, web2 and web2a, are on our Unix mainframe so I expect they 
are part of the BSD.  I assume they are used by the Unix "spell" as
supplemental dictionary files, though there is no mention of them in the
man pages for "spell".