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From: jiro@heights.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Remote Webster ?
Keywords: Webster, Dumb terminal
Message-ID: <1990Mar2.051827.3798@heights.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 90 05:18:27 GMT
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Organization: Cornell Information Technologies, Workstation Resources, Ithaca, NY
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>Dear NeXTers,
>
>Does anyone know how to use Webster from another machine (with rlogin or
>rsh) ?
>
>What I'm looking for is a way of accessing the database with an ascii
>terminal only (without the pictures of course). It could be sth like:
>$ rsh my-next "webster word"
   
   If you use my "define" program found in cs.orst.edu, you can
do    "rsh my-next "define word" "
    It's sourced and documented (well...) and is a good example
of how to access webster's from a pure C/Unix program.
   - jiro ^
    jiro@heights.cit.cornell.edu