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From: wjs@milton.u.washington.edu (William Jon Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: /usr/dict/{web2,web2a} (Librarian Reference)
Keywords: web,tex,web2,web2a
Message-ID: <1991May9.220341.19215@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 9 May 91 22:03:41 GMT
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Organization: University of Washington
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[ speculations on /usr/dict/web being related to TeX deleted... ]

web (the one that works with TeX) is a program formatting language (a very
complex "pretty-printer", if you will).  I seriously doubt it has anything to
do with /usr/dict/web2.

More likely is that /usr/dict/web2 is just a flat list of all the words you get
in your webster dictionary, so that programs that are used to using
/usr/dict/words can use a much more robust word set.  (web2 is about 12x as
big as words.  I use it with an anagramming program and it gives a lot more
spiffy combos.)

As for /usr/dict/web2a, you got me.  I have no idea what that is.  I encourage
people to look at it, though.  It's really bizarre, sort of like a word game.

-william shipley
NeXT Campus Consultant (or...)
Cannot lust campus NeXT