From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Apr 25 08:06:32 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:06:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FYP7Y-00051u-GD for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:06:32 -0700 Received: from miranda.org ([216.93.242.2]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FYP7V-00051n-FF for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:06:32 -0700 Received: (qmail 2820 invoked by uid 534); 25 Apr 2006 09:06:27 -0600 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:06:27 -0600 From: Jay F Kominek To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: DICT server -- specifying dictionary Message-ID: <20060425150627.GI26204@miranda.org> References: <13f42dd60604230905k483812eegb378c1400009c36b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <13f42dd60604230905k483812eegb378c1400009c36b@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 3157 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 12:05:48PM -0400, 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. The "!" database isn't implemented (in violation of the RFC, I'll admit). But the other databases should and seem to work just fine, as Arnt has pointed out. If you have further questions about the DICT interface, feel free to email me directly, as I'm responsible for it. -- Jay Kominek