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Re: Command line access to Websters 3.0

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From: Jiro Nakamura
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:18
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In article <BxxDCJ.3pB@taligent.com> Jeff Wishnie <jwishnie@taligent.com>  
writes:
> Under 2.0 I used Jiro Nakamura's Define program to define words in
> Websters from the command line.
> 
> Under 3.0, it looks like the calls Jiro uses (i.e. openReference) have
> gone away. Have they been replaced by something or has NeXT intentionally
> removed command line
> access to references?


Jeff -
   I've been trying to patch define but with no success. It hasn't helped that my Websters has someone been corrupted as well.... It seems that NeXT chose not to document the calls necessary for programmatic access to Websters and I chose to save my $$$ by not ask_nexting them.

 Jiro Nakamura
, it looks like the calls Jiro uses (i.e. openReference) have
> gone away. Have they been replaced by something or has NeXT intentionally
> removed command line
> access to references?


Jeff -
   I've been trying to patch define but with no success. It hasn't helped that my Websters has someone been corrupted as well.... It seems that NeXT chose not to document
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psinntp!shaman!jiro
From: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura)
Subject: Re: Command line access to Websters 3.0
Message-ID: <1992Nov19.151839.15683@shaman.com>
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