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.TH DICOD "8" "April 2009" "dicod (GNU dico 2.0)" "System Administration Utilities"
.SH NAME
dicod \- a DICT daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dicod
[\fI-fEsiTth\fR] [\fI-I DIR\fR] [\fI-x LEVEL-SPEC\fR] [\fI--config=FILE\fR] [\fI--foreground\fR]
[\fI--stderr\fR] [\fI--syslog\fR] [\fI--preprocessor=PROG\fR] [\fI--no-preprocessor\fR]
[\fI--include-dir=DIR\fR] [\fI--single-process\fR] [\fI--inetd\fR] [\fI--transcript\fR]
[\fI--no-transcript\fR] [\fI--debug=LEVEL-SPEC\fR] [\fI--source-info\fR]
[\fI--trace-grammar\fR] [\fI--trace-lex\fR] [\fI--config-help\fR] [\fI--lint\fR] [\fI--help\fR]
[\fI--usage\fR] [\fI--version\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBdicod\fP is an implementation of DICT server (RFC 2229). It is fully
modular: the daemon itself (dicod) provides only the server functionality, but
it knows nothing about database formats. Actual searches are performed by
functions supplied in loadable modules. A single module can serve one or more
databases. 

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-\-config\fR=\fIFILE\fR
Read this configuration file.
.TP
\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-foreground\fR
Operate in foreground.
.TP
\fB\-\-stderr\fR
Output diagnostic to stderr.
.TP
\fB\-\-syslog\fR
Output diagnostic to syslog (default).
.TP
\fB\-E\fR
Preprocess configuration file and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-preprocessor\fR=\fIPROG\fR
Use PROG as a preprocessor for config file.
.TP
\fB\-\-no\-preprocessor\fR
Do not use external preprocessor.
.TP
\fB\-I\fR, \fB\-\-include\-dir\fR=\fIDIR\fR
Add the directory DIR to the list of directories
to be searched for preprocessor include files
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-single\-process\fR
Single\-process mode.
.TP
\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-inetd\fR
Inetd mode.
.TP
\fB\-T\fR, \fB\-\-transcript\fR
Enable session transcript.
.TP
\fB\-\-no\-transcript\fR
Disable session transcript.
.TP
\fB\-x\fR, \fB\-\-debug\fR=\fILEVEL\-SPEC\fR
Set debug verbosity level.
.TP
\fB\-\-source\-info\fR
Include source line information in the debugging
output.
.TP
\fB\-\-trace\-grammar\fR
Trace parsing of configuration file.
.TP
\fB\-\-trace\-lex\fR
Trace config file lexer.
.TP
\fB\-\-config\-help\fR
Show configuration file summary.
.TP
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-lint\fR
Check configuration file syntax and exit.
.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 dico (1),
.br
The full documentation for
.B dicod
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 dicod
.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@users.sourceforge.net>,
for the Debian project (and may be used by others).