nevai@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) (12/11/89)
Is it possible to use Wbster via remote logins? Paul Nevai nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Internet) Department of Mathematics nevai@ohstpy (BITNET) The Ohio State University 1-(614)-292-5310.office@ans.machine 231 West Eighteenth Avenue 1-(614)-292-4975.department Columbus, OH 43210-1174 1-(614)-292-3317.secretary The United States of America 1-(614)-459-5615.fax
lacsap@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Pascal Chesnais) (12/11/89)
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 -- Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Electronic Publishing Group Media Laboratory, E15-348, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Ma, 02139 (617) 253-0311 NeXTmail: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (12/11/89)
In article <1989Dec10.195312.18995@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu>, nevai@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) writes: > Is it possible to use Wbster via remote logins? Sure. There are two pieces: websterd, a TCP server that will run on any NeXT, and webster, a client that will run on any UNIX system that talks TCP (including the NeXT). In ~ftp/pub on sutro.sfsu.edu: The file NeXT-websterd.shar is Steve Hayman's server program. Read the enclosed instructions about setting the oknets[] array--and remember to list net 127 so you can access it from your own machine! You will have to add a line to services in netinfo: x400 103/tcp dictionary webster That's right, it "traditionally" co-opts the x.400 port. (Except at Stanford, where they advocate 2627) webster.tar.Z also has a table that needs to be modified, in this case the hosts that you want to try (in order) for webster servers. If you're compiling this on a NeXT, the first one should be localhost. It works without modification on SunOS and HP/UX, and shouldn't have any problems on your favorite networked UNIX. We've even set it up as a login shell for a non-passworded "webster" username on non-NeXT machines. There's a webster.el for GNU emacs in this package as well. I've found its performance to be somewhat erratic. As is, as always. I worked on part of the webster client, but the rest is strictly not-invented-here. -=EPS=-