This file contains general installation instructions for WordNet compressed tar file packages. Instructions are given using the WordNet 1.7 database package as an example. To install a different package, substitute the package name for "wn17.unix.tar.gz". WordNet 1.7 is available in a single file, wn17.unix.tar.gz, or as a series of 512K files called wn17.unix.tar.gz.aX, where "X" is a lower case letter. To unbundle the Unix distribution from the split files, first download all the parts. Put the files in the directory from which you want to install the package. Next 'cat' them together, and pipe the results through 'gunzip' and 'tar' as shown in the following command: cat wn17.unix.tar.gz.a* | gunzip | tar xvf - If you have downloaded a single file instead of a series of smaller ones, you can unbundle it with the command: gunzip -c wn17.unix.tar.gz | tar xvf - Directories =========== All other WordNet packages should be downloaded into the $WNHOME directory (the directory that you installed the WordNet package into), then unbundled and installed as described above. Each package will create its own subdirectory in $WNHOME. Additional information and installation instructions can be found in the INSTALL file in each subdirectory. Cleaning Up =========== After a package is installed, the archive file (".tar.gz") from which it was installed can be removed to save disk space. Gzip Utility ============ The packages have been compressed with 'gzip'. To install a package compressed with 'gzip', you need to have 'gzip' (or 'gunzip') on your system. If you don't, you can download it from "prep.ai.mit.edu" or one of the numerous FTP sites that mirror the GNU software.