WordNet User Commands WNINTRO ( 1WN )

NAME
wnintro – WordNet user commands
SYNOPSIS
wn – command line interface to WordNet database
wnb – window based WordNet browser
DESCRIPTION
This section of the WordNet Reference Manual contains manual pages that describe commands available
with the various WordNet system packages.

The WordNet interfaces wn(1WN) and wnb(1WN) allow the user to search the WordNet database and
display the information textually.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES (UNIX)
WNHOME Base directory for WordNet. Default is /usr/local/WordNet-3.0.
WNSEARCHDIR Directory in which the WordNet database has been installed. Default is
WNHOME/dict.
REGISTRY (WINDOWS)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WordNet\3.0\WNHome
Base directory for WordNet. Default is C:\Program Files\WordNet\3.0.
SEE ALSO
grind(1WN), wn(1WN), wnb(1WN), wnintro(3WN), wnintro(5WN), wnintro(7WN).
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".

WordNet 3.0 Last change: Dec 2006 1