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From: lacsap@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Pascal Chesnais)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Webster via remote logins. Is it possible?
Message-ID: <1184@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 10 Dec 89 22:06:58 GMT
References: <1989Dec10.195312.18995@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: lacsap@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <1989Dec10.195312.18995@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> nevai@function.mps.ohio-state.edu () writes:
>Is it possible to use Wbster via remote logins?
>
>
>Paul Nevai                            nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Internet)

Well it so happens that if you anonymous ftp to media-lab.media.mit.edu
and snarf next-webster.tar.Z you can look up words from online
dictionary. Now you are not supposed to do that, you should be
reading the dictionary from the application...

A frustrated thesis student conjured this up a while ago...

pasc



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