From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Apr 25 07:57:51 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:57:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FYOz8-0004ba-TQ for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:57:51 -0700 Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FYOz6-0004bS-2V for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:57:50 -0700 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no [129.241.210.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19039479D for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:57:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:57:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Arnt Richard Johansen X-X-Sender: arj@hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: DICT server -- specifying dictionary In-Reply-To: <13f42dd60604230905k483812eegb378c1400009c36b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <13f42dd60604230905k483812eegb378c1400009c36b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.org X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 3156 X-Approved-By: arj@nvg.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Todd Willey wrote: > I've been trying to create an interface for querying the dict server > on www.lojban.org but I'm having trouble with the DEFINE > command. The only valid database seems to be "*" wich is all > databases. Everytime I try "en<->lbo", "!", or any othere database I > get "501 Syntax error, illegal parameters". I was wondering if there > was something I needed to do get this working, or who I could talk to > about the dict interface. It works for me with dict(1). arj@gavagai:~$ dict -P - -i "en->jbo" -h lojban.org say English to Lojban 1 definition found >From English to Lojban [en->jbo]: {say}, is the gloss word for {cusku}. Note that the ISO 639-2 code for Lojban is 'jbo', not 'lbo'. Hope this helps. -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups. (Wethern's Law)