From: "Christopher Nelson" <paradox AT gye DOT satnet DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: pushing keys
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 08:01:09 -0600
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

>How would i make a program that is like a lets say a thesaurus (as an
example
>), like the user would type in a word...and they would get back another
>word(s)?


that's kind of a broad question.  a thesaurus for what?  emacs, DOS, a
word-processor?

in the simplesest sense, you would have a large word database and an index.
the index would index words of similiar sense or something, then when a user
typed a word in, you could search the index for the root key (the word) and
look at it's list of pointers.  this is one way, but it really depends on
the application.

    -={C}=-