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- Program name: jargon
- Source language: icon
- Purpose: quickly find entries in the hackers' jargon file
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- Description:
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- This shell archive contains a jargon database program, aptly enough
- named "jargon." If you have the recently posted (March 1, 1991, alt.
- sources) hackers' jargon file around, you can use this package for
- quick access to entries within that file, as in "jargon word" (where
- "word" is the bit of hacker's jargon you want a definition for).
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- Installation:
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- Cp Makefile.dist to Makefile and edit it to reflect local naming con-
- ventions. After editing, type "make all." If, after seeing a lot of
- garbage go by, you get the message "everything seems OK," then su root
- and make install. Be sure to set default ownership and permissions in
- the makefile to some value that makes sense for your system. If you
- don't have root privileges, you must change the DESTDIR and LIBDIR
- variables in the makefile so that they reflect directories you have
- access to. Note that I am assuming a Unix installation in the
- makefile. If you are using some other platform, you'll need to edit
- the file "jargon.src" so that the variable "database" is set to the
- full path of the jargon.wrd file (i.e. $(LIBDIR)/jargon.wrd in the
- makefile). Then type:
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- icont jarg2get.icn
- icont -o idxtext idxtext.icn adjuncts.icn
- copy jargon.src jargon.icn
- icont -o jargon jargon.icn gettext.icn adjuncts.icn
- jarg2get < JARGONFILE > jargon.wrd
- idxtext jargon.wrd
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- where "copy" is your system's file copy or rename command, and
- JARGONFILE is the name of the original jargon.ascii file. To test a
- non-UNIX installation, type
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- (ficonx) jargon zork
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- The ficonx part may not be necessary. If you get a definition for
- "zork," then everything is probably OK. If you altered jargon.src so
- that the database variable points to a jargon.wrd file in the current
- directory, then there is no need to do anything more. If you named a
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