Xref: utzoo comp.sources.wanted:15410 comp.text:8053 comp.unix.questions:28946 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!cert!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews!mjd From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Mark-Jason Dominus) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.text,comp.unix.questions Subject: Need network dictionary-definition server program Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 91 19:59:28 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Distribution: comp Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 18 We want to have a dictionary definition service like `webster'. A user should be able to run a client program, specify a word, and receive the definition of the word from the server. Our Webster server ran on a NeXT machine and hasn't worked since we upgraded the OS. Most prefereable would be source code for client and server programs to run under BSD UNIX. (We would probably be running under SunOS 4.1.) If no such program exists, we would settle for writing it ourselves, but we would need an on-line dictionary for that, and good dictionary databases seem to be hard to come by. Can anyone point me either at complete software packages that do what we want, or at possible sources of dictionary databases? -- A man possessed is a poor commentator on his possession. Mark-Jason Dominus mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com