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From: ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: /usr/dict/{web2,web2a}
Message-ID: <12961@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 19:01:48 GMT
References: <494@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Organization: Castle Anthrax, Pittsburgh
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In article <494@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:
>In my never-ending quest for disk space, I discovered, in addition to the
>traditional /usr/dict/words file (which I think I'll keep), there are two
>more files in /usr/dict named "web2" and "web2a", that weight in collectively
>at about 4Mb.  The creation date is back in 1985, which leads me to believe
>that they might be vestigial, but on the other hand, their names are
>similar to "Webster", and I wondered if "Webster" the application uses
>them somehow.

I don't think the webster app uses them.  I think they're just like
/usr/dict/words, except that they include all the words in Webster.  I
think they exist only for spell checkers.  I've seen /usr/dict/web* on
other platforms before.
-- 
DdJ