WNINTRO(1WN)

📦 version 3.0, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 WNINTRO 💖

ok so this is the WordNet™ User Commands page, section 1WN — aka the lil lobby that walks you into all the other WordNet man pages. hi bestie, welcome, come in, take your shoes off 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

wnintro — WordNet user commands

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

wn - command line interface to WordNet database

wnb - window based WordNet browser

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this section of the WordNet Reference Manual is basically the group chat for all the manual pages describing commands you get with the various WordNet system packages. they're all here, they all said hi.

the WordNet interfaces wn(1WN) and wnb(1WN) let you search the WordNet database and display the info textually. that's the whole vibe. no cap. 💅

👑 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES (UNIX) 👑

ok so on UNIX these two lil environment variables are running the whole show:

  • WNHOME — the base directory for WordNet. the default is /usr/local/WordNet-3.0. she lives there.
  • WNSEARCHDIR — the directory where the WordNet database got installed. default is WNHOME/dict. nested, iconic, on brand.

🎀 REGISTRY (WINDOWS) 🎀

and over on Windows, the same energy but in the registry:

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WordNet\3.0\WNHome — base directory for WordNet. default is C:\Program Files\WordNet\3.0. slay.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these next, fr fr, they ate:

  • grind(1WN)
  • wn(1WN)
  • wnb(1WN)
  • wnintro(3WN)
  • wnintro(5WN)
  • wnintro(7WN)

also this absolute citation:

  • Fellbaum, C. (1998), ed. "WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database". MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

WordNet has a World Wide Web site at http://wordnet.princeton.edu. from this web site users can learn about the WordNet project, run several different interfaces to the WordNet database, and download various WordNet system packages and "Five Papers on WordNet". like, the whole buffet. go feast. 🔥

and that's the tea 🍓 — this page came to you straight from WordNet 3.0, dated Dec 2006. periodt. 💜🧚
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