From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23654 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: dict.el Date: 01 Jul 1999 23:42:32 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199907011551.LAA71563@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161347 3167 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:49:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:49:07 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA16229 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:48:17 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB04129; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:44:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 01 Jul 1999 16:45:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA17960 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:44:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (bang.netfonds.no [195.1.89.231]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA16140 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:43:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA02259; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 23:53:43 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Vladimir Nabokov's _Pale Fire_ X-Now-Playing: Moby's _Honey Remixes_: "Honey - Rollo & Sister Bliss Blunt Edit" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Eric Marsden's message of "01 Jul 1999 18:05:50 +0200" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070089 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.89) XEmacs/21.2 (Sumida) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > well I never, dictionary frontends must be very sexy. I just found > Alexander's dict.el on Dejanews[1], and his predates mine so I will > rename. :-) When it rains it pours, and stuff like that. I'll rename mine to locdict.el, since it's a "local" dictionary interface thing. > My dict.el is useful when you don't have a local dictd server but > have permanent internet access. And dict.org seems to have quite complete dictionaries. When did all this happen? The last time I went looking for dictionaries on the web, I couldn't find anything useful at all. (Well, nothing that wasn't pay-per-browsing.) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen