From lojban-out@lojban.org Fri Mar 14 12:42:26 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_1); 14 Mar 2003 20:42:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 25917 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2003 20:42:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Mar 2003 20:42:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Mar 2003 20:42:24 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18tw0W-00077s-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:42:24 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18tw0H-00077U-00; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:42:09 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:42:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from miranda.org ([209.58.150.153] ident=qmailr) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 18tw05-00077G-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:41:57 -0800 Received: (qmail 21660 invoked by uid 534); 14 Mar 2003 20:41:56 -0000 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:41:56 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] New interfaces to jbovlaste Message-ID: <20030314204156.GS31886@miranda.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Accept-Language: art-lojban, en User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-archive-position: 4526 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: Jay F Kominek From: Jay F Kominek Reply-To: jkominek@miranda.org X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out There are two new (read-only) interfaces to the jbovlaste data: The first is a web based search tool, available at: http://www.lojban.org/cgi-bin/dict.pl If you know the word you want to look up, just type it into the box, and hit 'Submit Query'. If you're not quite sure, then pick something besides "Return Definitions" in the "Search type" combo box. The second interface is via the DICT (RFC2229) protocol (and is actually used by the first interface). You can get DICT clients from http://www.dict.org/links.html for a variety of operating systems. Simply tell your client to use "lojban.org" as the DICT server, and you're all set. Currently the data returned (by both methods, since they have the same underlying source!) has a few slight formatting issues, but is entirely usable. Please don't report formatting problems, they're known already and will be taken care of as time becomes available. (To increase performance, pick a specific database when looking up words, rather than searching all databases.) Neither of these methods are intended to allow you to edit data, for that you should continue to use the main jbovlaste interface at: http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/ Enjoy. -- Jay Kominek Reality is what refuses to go away when you stop believing in it.