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Junk quickoed, use ox2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jhawk@MIT.EDU)
Thu Sep 22 18:42:09 1994
From: jhawk@MIT.EDU
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Cc: software-announce@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 18:41:38 EDT
Last week I announced quickoed, a script to do webster-style
OED lookups. Two significant things were pointed out:
1) It's broken under Ultricks, do to a broken Bourne shell
2) A "real" program to do this already exists.
Thanks to Alex Prengel, <alexp@mit> for pointing out (2), namely the
existance of ``ox2'', which lives in the oed locker. It does
essentially the same thing as quickoed, however it parses the SGML
much better, and looks far less shoddy.
So anyway, use
add oed; ox2 <word>
instead of quickoed. Like quickoed, it's only available on the 3
supported Athena platforms. It's also got a decent interface if you
just type ``ox2''.
quickoed will disappear from the sipb locker soon...
--jhawk
