# [quinn@netsville.com: Re: dictionary server?]

"Robert J. Brown" (rj@eli.wariat.org)
Sun, 16 Mar 1997 11:05:20 -0600

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    Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 12:18:04 PST
    To: "Kimberly Bobrow" <kbobrow@parc.xerox.com>
    From: Quinn <quinn@netsville.com>
    Subject: Re: dictionary server?
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    At 03:48 AM 3/11/97 PST, Kimberly Bobrow wrote:
    >I moo-mailed with someone on Lambda who thought he might be writing
    >something to strip the html off one of the web versions, and offerred
    >to share it.  If he doesn't end up doing it before too long I'll
    >probably do it myself, and I'll be happy to share.  If he does it,
    >I'll ask if I (or he can, if he's on here - I don't know his real
    >name) can post it here.
    >
    >Of course, if anyone finds another webster server, please do post
    >about it here!

    I wrote the Internet Word Findin' FO (#21412) on LambdaMOO.  I've adapted
    it to work with the Merriam-Webster site, but Lambda's lag and their lag
    together don't make it very useful on LambdaMOO.  All are free to @dump
    #21412@Lambda and use that code to access Merriam-Webster's CGI.  It works
    on my MOOs.

    The code is pretty crappy.  I slapped it together on a Sunday afternoon.
    The HTML "renderer" just breaks at <BR>, converts a few entities (&amp;),
    and then strips the rest of the markup.  It also has a very primitive
    cache.  I'm working on an improved version elseMOO, where it actually works.

    Feel free to drop by Ghostwheel (telnet://casper.bga.com:6969) for Scrabble
    and word findin', among other things.

    - -Quinn
    - -http://www.bga.com/~quinn/
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