[lojban-beginners] Re: DICT server -- specifying dictionary

[Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org>]

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 <database>
> <word> 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.

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Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
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