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.TH DICO "1" "April 2009" "dico (GNU dico 2.0)" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
dico \- a DICT client
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dico
[\fI-mDSHIqatvh\fR] [\fI-p SERVICE\fR] [\fI-d NAME\fR] [\fI-s NAME\fR] [\fI-i DBNAME\fR]
[\fI-u NAME\fR] [\fI-k STRING\fR] [\fI-c STRING\fR] [\fI--host=SERVER\fR]
[\fI--port=SERVICE\fR] [\fI--database=NAME\fR] [\fI--source=ADDR\fR] [\fI--match\fR]
[\fI--strategy=NAME\fR] [\fI--levdist, \fB--levenshtein-distance\fR=\fIN\fR]fR [\fI--dbs\fR]
[\fI--strategies\fR] [\fI--serverhelp\fR] [\fI--info=DBNAME\fR] [\fI--serverinfo\fR]
[\fI--quiet\fR] [\fI--noauth\fR] [\fI--sasl\fR] [\fI--nosasl\fR] [\fI--user=NAME\fR]
[\fI--key, \fB--passwordfR=\fISTRING\fR]fR [\fI--autologin=NAME\fR] [\fI--client=STRING\fR]
[\fI--transcript\fR] [\fI--verbose\fR] [\fI--time-stamp\fR] [\fI--source-info\fR]
[\fI--help\fR] [\fI--usage\fR] [\fI--version\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBdico\fP is an RFC 2229 compliant dictionary client.

.SH OPTIONS
.SS Server selection
.TP
\fB\-\-host\fR=\fISERVER\fR
Connect to this server.
.TP
\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-port\fR=\fISERVICE\fR
Specify port to connect to.
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-database\fR=\fINAME\fR
Select a database to search.
.TP
\fB\-\-source\fR=\fIADDR\fR
Set a source address for TCP connections.
.SS Operation modes
.TP
\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-match\fR
Match instead of define.
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-strategy\fR=\fINAME\fR
Select a strategy for matching.  Implies \fB\-\-match\fR.
.TP
\fB\-\-levdist\fR, \fB\-\-levenshtein\-distance\fR=\fIN\fR
Set maximum Levenshtein distance to N.
.TP
\fB\-D\fR, \fB\-\-dbs\fR
Show available databases.
.TP
\fB\-S\fR, \fB\-\-strategies\fR
Show available search strategies.
.TP
\fB\-H\fR, \fB\-\-serverhelp\fR
show server help.
.TP
\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-info\fR=\fIDBNAME\fR
Show information about database DBNAME.
.TP
\fB\-I\fR, \fB\-\-serverinfo\fR
Show information about the server.
.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
Do not print the normal dico welcome.
.SS Authentication
.TP
\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-noauth\fR
Disable authentication.
.TP
\fB\-\-sasl\fR
Enable SASL authentication (default).
.TP
\fB\-\-nosasl\fR
Disable SASL authentication.
.TP
\fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-user\fR=\fINAME\fR
Set user name for authentication.
.TP
\fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-key\fR, \fB\-\-password\fR=\fISTRING\fR
Set shared secret for authentication.
.TP
\fB\-\-autologin\fR=\fINAME\fR
Set the name of autologin file to use.
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-client\fR=\fISTRING\fR
Additional text for client command.
.SS Debugging
.TP
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-transcript\fR
Enable session transcript.
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
Increase debugging verbosity level.
.TP
\fB\-\-time\-stamp\fR
Include time stamp in the debugging output.
.TP
\fB\-\-source\-info\fR
Include source line information in the debugging
output.
.SS Other options
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
Give this help list
.TP
\fB\-\-usage\fR
Give a short usage message
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
Print program version
.PP
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional
for any corresponding short options.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to <bug\-dico@gnu.org>.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Sergey Poznyakoff
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR dicod (8),
.br
The full documentation for
.B dico
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
.B info
and
.B dico-doc
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
.IP
.B info dico
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.
.SH AUTHOR
dico was written by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>.
.PP
This manual page was written by أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org>,
for the Debian project (and may be used by others).