[5436] in SIPB bug reports
xwebster,xthesaurus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Farzana Khatri)
Tue Jun 20 02:45:26 1995
From: solitons!farzana@spin.att.com (Farzana Khatri)
Cc: solitons!mike@spin.att.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 17:05:24 EDT
Original-From: spin!solitons!farzana (Farzana Khatri)
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Hi.
I'm a current MIT grad student working at AT&T for the summer. We have
some Suns (Sun OS 4.1.3) out here and we were hoping to get a hold of
some dictionary and thesaurus software. I spoke to someone at SIPB
last week on the phone who told me that xwebster is shareware and available
to take. Is this true? We ftp'ed a copy of it and tried to run it and got
"cannot execute." The person I spoke to also said that the webster database
was NOT shareware, but perhaps the OED was. When looking in a README file under
/afs/athena.mit.edu/software/oed we found it mentioned a company called
Open Text Corporation. Was this where everything was purchased? Do
you happen to have a contact for this company? Can you suggest a company
from whom to purchase a oed-like database (or better yet an ftp site from
which to get it)?
Any info and/or help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Farzana Khatri
fikhatri@mit.edu
solitons!farzana@spin.ho.att.com
