SYNOPSIS
dico [-mDSHIqatvh] [-p SERVICE] [-d NAME] [-s NAME] [-i DBNAME] [-u NAME] [-k STRING] [-c STRING] [--host=SERVER] [--port=SERVICE] [--database=NAME] [--source=ADDR] [--match] [--strategy=NAME] [--levdist, --levenshtein-distance=N]fR [--dbs] [--strategies] [--serverhelp] [--info=DBNAME] [--serverinfo] [--quiet] [--noauth] [--sasl] [--nosasl] [--user=NAME] [--key, --passwordfR=STRING]fR [--autologin=NAME] [--client=STRING] [--transcript] [--verbose] [--time-stamp] [--source-info] [--help] [--usage] [--version]DESCRIPTION
dico is an RFC 2229 compliant dictionary client.
OPTIONS
Server selection
- --host=SERVER
- Connect to this server.
- -p, --port=SERVICE
- Specify port to connect to.
- -d, --database=NAME
- Select a database to search.
- --source=ADDR
- Set a source address for TCP connections.
Operation modes
- -m, --match
- Match instead of define.
- -s, --strategy=NAME
- Select a strategy for matching. Implies --match.
- --levdist, --levenshtein-distance=N
- Set maximum Levenshtein distance to N.
- -D, --dbs
- Show available databases.
- -S, --strategies
- Show available search strategies.
- -H, --serverhelp
- show server help.
- -i, --info=DBNAME
- Show information about database DBNAME.
- -I, --serverinfo
- Show information about the server.
- -q, --quiet
- Do not print the normal dico welcome.
Authentication
- -a, --noauth
- Disable authentication.
- --sasl
- Enable SASL authentication (default).
- --nosasl
- Disable SASL authentication.
- -u, --user=NAME
- Set user name for authentication.
- -k, --key, --password=STRING
- Set shared secret for authentication.
- --autologin=NAME
- Set the name of autologin file to use.
- -c, --client=STRING
- Additional text for client command.
Debugging
- -t, --transcript
- Enable session transcript.
- -v, --verbose
- Increase debugging verbosity level.
- --time-stamp
- Include time stamp in the debugging output.
- --source-info
- Include source line information in the debugging output.
Other options
- -h, --help
- Give this help list
- --usage
- Give a short usage message
- --version
- Print program version
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <[email protected]>.COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Sergey Poznyakoff License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
AUTHOR
dico was written by Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]>.This manual page was written by أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).