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Wordnet user commands

Usage

wn - command line interface to WordNet database

wnb - window based WordNet browser

Overview

This section of the WordNet Reference Manual contains manual pages that describe commands available with the various WordNet system packages.

The WordNet interfaces wn(1WN) and wnb(1WN) allow the user to search the WordNet database and display the information textually.

Environment

WNHOME

Base directory for WordNet. Unix default is /usr/local/wordnet1.7, PC default is C:\wn17.

WNSEARCHDIR

Directory in which the WordNet database has been installed. Unix default is WNHOME/dict, PC default is WNHOME\dict.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 2.1–2.2
  2. 3.0

Availability

WordNet has a World Wide Web site at http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/∼wn/. From this web site users can learn about the WordNet project, run several different interfaces to the WordNet database, and download various WordNet system packages and "Five Papers on WordNet".

From wordnet 1.7-6 in Debian 3.0 (Woody). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.