[501] in SIPB bug reports
webster with long unknown words
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat May 6 22:21:22 1989
Date: Sat, 6 May 89 22:21:02 EDT
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: dbwilson@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <dbwilson@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>'s message of Thu, 4 May 89 13:21:07 EDT <8905041721.AA13380@W20-575-58.MIT.EDU>
From: <dbwilson@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 4 May 89 13:21:07 EDT
Word: floccinauxinihilanthropist
Apparently-To: bug-sipb
The webster server appears to be broken.
Please try again, and if it doesn't work,
send mail to bug-sipb to let the SIPB know.
/mit/dbwilson% webst
Word: floccinauxinihilanthropist
The webster server appears to be broken.
Please try again, and if it doesn't work,
send mail to bug-sipb to let the SIPB know.
This is due to a known bug in the webster service. Unfortunately, the
fix is not simple, so you'll have to bear with us -- when you give
webster really long words that it does not know or that are
misspelled, this is going to happen.
jik
