Hi Jeanette, > is there a tool in the Arch repositories, including AUR, that can > access a thesaurus like mythes from the commandline? Package dictd offers dict(1) that can talk to a set of online dictionaries that include a thesaurus using the RFC'd DICT protocol, but not MyThes. dict -d moby-thesaurus thesaurus -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy