good.
Keep us informed and do not hesitate to ask any questions that you  
think may be silly :)

Stef

On 22 nov. 05, at 23:39, Chris Nelson wrote:

> Marcus,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> After further examination of the code, I did determine that the  
> current WordNet methods do rely on "page-scraping" to get the  
> responses. It appears that most WordNet clients download the  
> database and and the APIs provided by the site to offer a  
> independent WordNet service instead of querying the site. I do  
> agree that the current WordNet code is broken and should probably  
> be removed from Squeak. It would be nice to have something to  
> replace it with. I did some research and found there is a online  
> dictionary protocol, DICT as described in RFC 2229 and some  
> projects that support this:
>
> http://www.dict.org/links.html
> http://www.freedict.org/en/
>
> Many of the DICT servers online also offer WordNet access in  
> addition to other resources. There are free clients and servers  
> available and I did realize that I do have the OmniDictionary  
> client and the DICTatoro server on my local OS X computer.  So  
> instead of replicating what the WordNet class in Squeak 3.8 is now,  
> I may try to see if I can create a DICT client with similar  
> functionality. Wish me luck, since I'm new to Smalltalk, OO and  
> network protocols. I will probably examine the code from some of  
> the Python client, since that is the language I'm most familiar with.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Nov 22, 2005, at 6:15 AM, Marcus Denker wrote:
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> because the wordnet code is broken, I have removed it from 3.9a.
>>
>> If you are interested, you could take the code from 3.8 and put it
>> on squeaksource to be developed further as a standalone package.
>> (i did not do that as nobody seemed to care about wordnet).
>>
>>       Marcus
>>
>> On 21.11.2005, at 23:47, Chris Nelson wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> I'm new to Squeak, so I'm going thru the environment and the  
>>> browser and trying random stuff that interest me.
>>>
>>> Tried using WordNet to get a definition and Scamper gets  
>>> redirected to a new URL. I don't think this is a bug, just  
>>> something that needs to be updated and tested.
>>>
>>> The new URL is http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn and it  
>>> appears form the page uses has different variables.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Chris Nelson, aka xradionut
>>>
>>>
>>>
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