[6405] in SIPB bug reports
Re: suggestion for thesaurus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Sat Jun 28 15:49:51 1997
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 15:47:22 -0400
To: belg4mit@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199706271900.PAA22228@sundial.MIT.EDU> (belg4mit@MIT.EDU)
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Hi. You wrote:
a thesaurus wrapper that won't run or gives help if no arg is
given so on don't get a list of gibberish
When I run "thesaurus" with no argument, I get a long but meaningful
usage message. I'm not sure what part of it you consider gibberish.
Is this what you see when you run thesaurus? If so, what is wrong
with it?
Usage:
/mit/sipb/bin/thesaurus <word> [<word> ...]
Search the thesaurus for all entries that begin with
"<word>".
/mit/sipb/bin/thesaurus -V <word> [<word> ...]
Search the thesaurus for all entries that begin with
"<word>". All displayed entries are separated by a line
of dashes.
/mit/sipb/bin/thesaurus -W <word> [<word> ...]
Search the thesaurus for the entry that contains
"<word>" exactly.
/mit/sipb/bin/thesaurus -w <word> [<word> ...]
Display all words in the thesaurus that begin with
"<word>".
/mit/sipb/bin/thesaurus -w -v <word> [<word> ...]
Display all words in the thesaurus that begin with
"<word>". Alongside each word, the numbers of the
entries that contain the word are displayed.
/mit/sipb/bin/thesaurus -n <number>
Display thesaurus entry number "<number>". Unlike a
word, only one number can be specified.
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Sal Valente <svalente@mit.edu>
MIT SIPB
