Peanuts NeXT Software Archives/Peanuts-2.iso/Unix/text/websterd.README

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This is a first beta release of my webster daemon for the NeXT.  See
websterd.c for details on how to set it up.  I have a hacked
version of the "webster" client (but not "xwebster", not yet)
that understands the new INDEX command for selecting the
thesaurus instead of the dictionary.

You can run this as a daemon under inetd on your NeXT, or if you
want you can say "websterd word" or "websterd -t word" to look
things up directly on the NeXT, although that wasn't the
original idea and the output format isn't as nice.

I have yet to write any decent documentation - sorry.  That will come.
Right now I'm interested in any feedback people may have.  I have only
tested this on our NeXT runing 0.9, with connections from webster
and xwebster on our Vax, Ultrix 3.0, but it seems to work.

Please let me know what you think.  I want to continue to improve this
so I'm very interested in suggestions anyone may have.

And in case anyone is wondering, I figured out the format of
the NeXT dictionary and the meaning of the special characters totally
by trial and error.  If there is some real documentation for it
out there, please point me to it!


NOTE - Before installing this, look at "connection.c" and change
it to suit your local environment.  The "check_connection()" routine
there attempts to restrict server access to only those machines
on specified networks.  I would strongly encourage you to restrict
access of the NeXT webster daemon to only your local machines.
Be sure to change "connection.c", or your Webster daemon will only
be usable by machines here at Indiana!

Steve Hayman
Tue Jun 20 14:53:16 EST 1989

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