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From: stolcke@icsib6.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xwebster
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Date: 8 Sep 89 00:56:35 GMT
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> Those with NeXT machines have Webster's Dictionary through an
> agreement between NeXT and Merriam-Webster; to the best of my knowledge,
> the dictionary on a NeXT machine is available *only* to those actually
 > > > logged
> into the NeXT machine.
> 

O.K., so you better be 'logged into' the NeXT. Presumably rlogin will do,
since I can't imagine NeXT would object to people using their machine
in a standard UNIX networking environment.  Now, what's the difference
between someone reading the dictionary during an rlogin session
(i.e. while talking to the rlogin daemon) and someone doing the same
via some more suitable software, namely xwebster and the webster server
daemon? I can't find any significant difference.

In other words, if your company (or university or whatever) has purchased
a NeXT and is licensed to have it used by a certain group of staff
(students, etc.) then those same people should be allowed to use
the NeXT's Webster, no matter what software is used in the process.
Anything else would render the NeXT a single-user PC, which, again,
seems something I don't think NeXT would agree to.

	--Andreas

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Andreas Stolcke
International Computer Science Institute	stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU
1957 Center St., Suite 600, Berkeley, CA 94704	(415) 642-4274 ext. 126