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- Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
- $VER: 2.5 (12.11.00)
- by William H. M. Parker
-
- This script is a stand alone interface for the Dictionary and Thesaurus
- functions of the www.m-w.com site. Should the site be changed this script may
- fail to work.
-
- INSTALTION
- ==========
-
- Requires ADOS 3.x and AWNPipe: (awnpipe is installed by the provided install
- script).
-
- You MUST use the provided install script to install this utility.
-
- GUI
- ===
-
- Since the GUI has help bubbles I'll keep this simple.
-
- The GUI opens on AWebs screen if started by AWeb, else on the default public
- screen.
-
- You must be online to look up words.
-
- Enter a word in the WORD gadget to look it up.
-
- You can retreive 3 levels of information ...
-
- FIRST = the main entry
- MAJOR = the major entries
- ALL = all related entries
-
- You can look up words in either the DICTIONARY or THESAURUS.
-
- You can SAVE or CLEAR the log of information.
-
- You can only ABORT when retreiving in MAJOR or ALL mode.
-
- You can drag select to copy definitions from the GUI.
-
- KEYS
- ====
-
- The up and down arrows will display the next or previous definition.
- Shortcuts for some gadgets are also available.
-
- MENUS
- =====
-
- Project menu
- ------------
-
- Window / snapshot - remember window position and current settings
-
- Window / unsnapshot - forget window position and current settings
-
- About - show version information
-
- Bubble help - turn help on or off
-
- Quit - shut down the dictionary
-
- Miami menu
- ----------
- (only shown if miami is detected)
-
- Online - put Maimi online
-
- Offline - take Miami offline
-
- Status - show Miami status
-
- Hide GUI - hide miami window
-
- Show GUI - show maimi window
-
- Quit - shut down miami
-
- AREXX HOST
- ==========
-
- The host name is DICTTHESAR
-
- The following commands are supported...
-
- Front - bring the GUI to front (uniconify if needed)
-
- Iconify # - 0=uniconfy, 1=iconify
-
- Quit - Quit the program
-
- Quit aweb - Quit only if running on awebs screen.
-
- Level # - Set the lookup level 0=first, 1=major, 2=all
- (result = previous level... so you may restore it when done)
-
- Book # - Set the Book 0=dictionary, 1=thesaurus, 2=all
- (result = previous book... so you may restore it when done)
-
- Word newword - look up 'newword'
- (result = retreived information, rc=5 not online, rc=6 return data too
- long)
-
- Clear - clear the log
-
- Logging # - 0=do not log information, 1=log information
- (result = previous logging mode)
- (does not control information retreived manualy)
-
- Save filename - save the log to 'filename'
- (result = length of file)
-
- Example (in a shell try)
-
- rx "options results;address DICTTHESAR 'word test';say rc result"
-
- DISTRIBUTION
- ============
-
- This software is CHILDWARE. I require whoever uses this program to make a
- donation to a beneficial organization working to help children. If you don't
- know of any, ask at your local post office and learn how to make a payment to
- UNICEF. The amount is up to you, but please do it!
-
- Please send any bug reports or comments to bill@amitrix.com.
-
- Enjoy!
-
- Bill
-
-