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Ruby DICT - Ruby implementation of the DICT protocol

Ruby/DICT is an RFC 2229-compliant client-side library implementation of the DICT protocol, written in the Ruby programming language. It can be used to write clients that access dictionary definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases. rdict, a powerful CLI dictionary client built on Ruby/DICT, is included.

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Web pagehttp://www.caliban.org/ruby/
Source tarballhttp://www.caliban.org/files/ruby/ruby-dict-0.9.2.tar.gz
Version 0.9.2 (beta) released on 2003-06-11
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
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License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-05-24
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