Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!synoptics!unix!hplabs!hplabsz!mayer From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: xwebster server Message-ID: <5751@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> Date: 8 Aug 90 03:08:52 GMT References: Reply-To: mayer@hplabs.hp.com (Niels Mayer) Distribution: comp.windows.x Organization: Hewlett-Packard Labs, Software & Systems Lab, Palo Alto, CA. Lines: 40 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: In article chris@sage0.gsfc.nasa.gov (Chris P. Ross) writes: > Another question. What is and where can I get Xwebster?!? Any info >appriciated. As the author, I guess I should respond... Xwebster is available on the MIT X11r3 and X11r4 contrib tapes. You can also get it via anonymous ftp from expo.lcs.mit.edu in directory oldcontrib/xwebster.tar.Z ... You'll also need the public domain R3 or R4 HP Xwidgets which are in (i think) contrib/Xw.tar.Z. There's some minor patches in contrib/R4fixes/xwebster... I haven't done anything much with Xwebster since I've been too busy with other stuff. In legowik@cme.nist.gov (Steven Legowik) writes: >Does anyone out there know the addresses of any of the xwebster >servers? NO. And please don't send me mail asking about webster servers. The dictionary data is copyright by Merriam Webster, so anybody with a server is very quiet about telling you where it is, and will generally refuse to give you a copy of the dictionary data unless they are "dictionary pirates" (swizzle the dictionary, ye maties!). I use some university's webster server somewhere on the "ARPAnet" -- I will not tell anyone which one I actually use because that will eventually cause it to get cut off from overuse. Whoever "owns" those servers are welcome to come forward on their own accord. If you have a NeXT computer available on your network, you may want to ask on comp.sys.next for the websterd program which accesses the NeXT's built- in webster dictionary on the optical disk. There's supposedly a version of xwebster floating around that also allows access to the NeXT thesaurus. (I don't have that version, so again don't bother asking). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Niels Mayer -- hplabs!mayer -- mayer@hplabs.hp.com Human-Computer Interaction Department Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto, CA. *