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Re: Reasonable assignment for a third grader?
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Sat, 14 Apr 2001 01:38:37 GMT
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J.D. Forinash <foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
grep herbivore /usr/dict/words
grep omnivore /usr/dict/words
grep carnivore /usr/dict/words
None of them are found in the sloaris /usr/dict/words. :)

The amusing thing on Red Hat Linux is that herbivore and omnivore are there,
as are carnivorous and carnivorously, but not carnivorous.


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Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>



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  Re: Reasonable assignment for a third grader?
 
(...) On most anything, actually. It's really not meant to be a dictionary, even though the directory looks like it. Sometimes a random word comes in handy, though. (...) None of them are found in the sloaris /usr/dict/words. :) Besides, in this age (...) (24 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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