NAME

       tkdict - a perl client for accessing network dictionary servers

SYNOPSIS

       tkdict [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       tkdict is a Perl/Tk client for the Dictionary server protocol (DICT), which is used to
       query natural dictionaries hosted on a remote machine.

       At the moment it's not very user oriented, since I've just been creating an interface to
       the protocol.

       There is more information available in the Help menu when running tkdict.

OPTIONS

       -h server or -host server
           The hostname for the DICT server.

       -p port or -port port
           Specify the port for connections (default is 2628, from RFC 2229).

       -c string or -client string
           Specify the CLIENT identification string sent to the DICT server.

       -help
           Display a short help message including command-line options.

       -doc
           Display the full documentation for tkdict.

       -version
           Display the version of tkdict

       -verbose
           Display verbose information as tkdict runs.

       -debug
           Display debugging information as tkdict runs.  Useful mainly for developers.

KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

       •   tkdict doesn't know how to handle firewalls.

       •   The authentication aspects of RFC 2229 aren't currently supported.

       •   See the ToDo page under the Help menu.

SEE ALSO

       www.dict.org
           The DICT home page, with all sorts of useful information.  There are a number of other
           DICT clients available.

       dict
           The C dict client written by Rik Faith; the options are pretty much lifted from Rik's
           client.

       RFC 2229
           The document which defines the DICT network protocol.

           http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc2229.html

       Net::Dict
           The perl module which implements the client API for RFC 2229.  It includes a command-
           line perl client, dict, as well as tkdict.

VERSION

       $Revision: 1.1.1.1 $

AUTHOR

       Neil Bowers <neil@bowers.com>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Neil Bowers. All rights reserved.

       This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.