[comp.emacs] Webster Server Software

grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) (06/20/89)

Admittedly, this isn't the proper place for this, but given that the
introduction & dispersal of webster.el caused at least one Webster
server to shut their their lexiographic doors, perhaps it's of interest.

The problem with the webster servers is that the data base is copyrighted;
ergo, creating new webster servers is problematic at best. However, a recent
computer (NeXT) comes packaged with the Webster database.

Does anyone know of a webster server package for the NeXT? We have several
of them on campus here, and I'd certainly like to use that database without
having to switch machines.

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Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois 		  (grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu)

sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) (06/21/89)

>Does anyone know of a webster server package for the NeXT? We have several
>of them on campus here, and I'd certainly like to use that database without
>having to switch machines.


Funny you should ask, I've just written such a thing.  Contact me if
you're interested.


..Steve

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Steve Hayman    Workstation Manager    Computer Science Department   Indiana U.
sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu                                   (812) 855-6984