[Melbourne-pm] Looking for suggestions

Brad Bowman list at bereft.net
Sun Dec 16 16:01:03 PST 2007


(Oops, fell off list)

Brendon Oliver wrote:
> On Monday 17 December 2007 09:50:54 you wrote:
>>> What I'm after is something to help solve word puzzles like Scrabble,
>>> Boggle, crosswords, etc.  What I'm thinking of is something that I can
>>> feed, say /usr/share/dict/*, then give it a string (or list) of random
>>> letters and a maximum word length.
>> [..]
>>
>>> Thoughts anyone?
>> I use "an", possibly the least googleable computer program ever:
>>
>> alias puzzle='an -m9 -w -d $HOME/words/yawl-0.3.2/word.list'
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.  I don't suppose you have a link to 'an' do you?

http://fatphil.org/words/an.html

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