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Number: 027
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,alt.etext
From: u920424@daimi.aau.dk (Mads H|jbjerg Toftum)
Subject: Re: Access to a dictionary anywhere?
Message-ID: <1993Feb26.105951.11154@daimi.aau.dk>
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 10:59:51 GMT
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jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:

>In article <79b417=@rpi.edu>, buckmr@vccsouth18 (Ron Buckmire) writes:
>>Oh really? I just noticed one. I would LOVE to find the Oxford English 
>>Dictionary UNABRIDGED on-line somewhere. Actually,  ANY Unabridged dictionary
>>would be nice.

>An idea that has been floating on the net is to create a
>net.dictionary.  There's a primitive mail server at
>togopher@otax.tky.hut.fi in experimental use which among other things
>could be used for this.  See English/Topics/Dictionary in otax gopher
>server for details.  You're welcome to send words with definitions to
>the gopher servers, and perhaps magically something good will come out
>of it.

>Alternatively if there's a freely distributable (old, copyright
>expired) dictionary somewhere, perhaps that could be taken as a basis
>for a net.dictionary project - might be that the critical mass would
>be easier to achieve, since people would get something out of it.

>//Jyrki

There is a few dictionaries available online.
This is the info that we have in our gopher:

Name:  'Webster's Dictionary (USA)'
Type:  7 (index search)

Host:  'sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu'
       (Computer where information is maintained)
Port:  3015
       (Network connection port)

Path:  'default SPELL'
       (Tells host where to find the information)

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Mads Toftum                                                   Comp.Science Dept.
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Number: 030
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,alt.etext
From: riddle@is.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle)
Subject: Re: Access to a dictionary anywhere?
Message-ID: <C3289z.Bs7@rice.edu>
Organization: Ministry of Information, William's Marsh
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 14:29:58 GMT
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>There is a few dictionaries available online.
>This is the info that we have in our gopher:
>
>Name:  'Webster's Dictionary (USA)'
>Type:  7 (index search)
>
>Host:  'sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu'
>       (Computer where information is maintained)
>Port:  3015
>       (Network connection port)
>
>Path:  'default SPELL'
>       (Tells host where to find the information)

Another English dictionary in Gopherspace (possibly another instance
of the same one, I don't know):

Name=American English Dictionary (from the UK)
Type=7
Port=70
Path=7/gopherservices/enquire.english
Host=uts.mcc.ac.uk

-- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") riddle@rice.edu
-- Unix Systems Programmer, Office of Networking and Computing Systems
-- Rice University, POB 1892, Houston, TX 77251 / Mudd 208 / 713-285-5327
-- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.

Number: 031
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,alt.etext
From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning)
Subject: Re: Access to a dictionary anywhere?
Date: 26 Feb 93 08:50:50
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Message-ID: <TED.93Feb26085050@lole.nmsu.edu>
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webster's 7th is not out of copyright and the publishers are very
sorry they ever made it available to researchers.  distributing this
dictionary is probably a very bad idea.

Number: 034
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,alt.etext
From: Graham Toal <gtoal@gtoal.com>
Subject: Re: Access to a dictionary anywhere?
Message-ID: <C34M9w.HwC@demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@demon.co.uk
Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 21:27:32 GMT
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In article <1993Feb24.165706.2811@nntp.hut.fi> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
:Alternatively if there's a freely distributable (old, copyright
:expired) dictionary somewhere, perhaps that could be taken as a basis
:for a net.dictionary project - might be that the critical mass would
:be easier to achieve, since people would get something out of it.

src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/text/dict/DICT.Z

See also my posting on alt.usage.english (Has the words 'FAQ fodder' in
the subject)

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