This is an import of William Whitaker's WORDS Version 1.97FC LATIN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY PROGRAM.
I don't know how to use words yet. It probably isn't too hard,
though.
words is written in Ada, which might be a problem. Most Linux distros
have gnat packages available. On OSX I've been using Ada compiler
binaries that I downloaded from
http://libre.adacore.com/download/configurations and, still in OSX, I frob
$PATH with the following, which I have added to my bash configuration files.
# ada crap
IN_GNAT=0
PRE_GNAT_PATH=
PRE_GNAT_PS1=
function load_gnat () {
if [ $IN_GNAT -ne 0 ] ; then
echo "Aready in gnat mode."
return
fi
echo -n "Configuring gnat... "
GNAT=~/local/gnat/bin
PRE_GNAT_PATH=$PATH
PRE_GNAT_PS1=$PS1
export IN_GNAT=1
export PS1="[gnat] $PS1"
export PATH=$GNAT:$PATH
echo "done."
}
function unload_gnat () {
echo -n "Unconfiguring gnat... "
if [ $IN_GNAT -ne 1 ] ; then
echo "wasn't in gnat mode in the first" 'place!'
return
fi
export IN_GNAT=0
export PATH=$PRE_GNAT_PATH
export PS1=$PRE_GNAT_PS1
echo "done."
}
Once I have gnat installed and in my PATH, I say
gnatmake -O3 words
gnatmake -O3 makedict
gnatmake -O3 makestem
gnatmake -O3 makeewds
gnatmake -O3 makeefil
gnatmake -O3 makeinfl
There is more info that I don't properly understand in the file HOWTO.txt.