«Modified 2/22/99, Greg Rushton. Added the functionality of finding
«words of multiple classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.)”
Here’s another old page that comes up in a google search for me. I have to re-write this one in Perl.
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Dictionary Search Page
Nov 26
Using the Frontier suite: suites.netDictionary, and a free on-line dictionary at Princeton University, I added a short script to the navigation bar of each page on our intranet. Just type in any word, and our DCE Server will look up its definition. A window will pop up that has the definition of your word. Thanks to Dave Winer at Scripting News for the idea and the netDictionary suite. Thanks also to WordNet hunchback of notre dame ii the online , which is the provider of the definitions.
I’ve done a couple modifications to further refine the definitions (i.e. pulling out nouns, verbs, etc.) Look below for the lookup script:
Update (7/10/00): free cujo It seems that WordNet turned off cgi-based access to their engine. I had to modify the script to use a Netscape browser as the agent that makes the request.
download picnic divx on lookup (word) { «Modified 2/22/99, Greg Rushton. Added the functionality of finding «words of multiple classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.) netDictionary.init (); local (adrcache = @user.netdictionary.cache.[string.lower (word)]); if defined (adrcache^) { return (adrcache^)}; with user.netdictionary { local (s = string.replace (cgiPath, "<<word>:>:", word)); local (adrheaders = nil); if defined (headers) { adrheaders = @headers}; «local (result = tcp.httpClient (method:"POST", server:server, port:port, adrHdrTable: adrheaders, path:s)) local (url = server + cgiPath + s); system.verbs.apps.Netscape.bringToFront(); local (result = system.verbs.apps.Netscape.getSource(url)); s = string.httpResultSplit (result); s = string.replaceall (s, "\n", "\r\n"); local { pat1 = "WordNet.<BR>:<BR>:\r\n"; pat2 = "<FORM ACTION"; definitions = ""; adjective = "<B>:adjective</B>:"; noun = "<B>:noun</B>:"; verb = "<B>:verb</B>:"; adverb = "<B>:adverb</B>:"}; while (s contains pat1) { local { ix = string.patternmatch (pat1, s); xi = string.patternmatch (pat2, s); start = ix + sizeof (pat1); count = xi - 1 - start; wordType = string.mid (s, 1, ix)}; if (wordType contains noun) { definitions = definitions + "<br>:<B>:Noun:</B>:<br>:"}; if (wordType contains verb) { definitions = definitions + "<br>:<B>:Verb:</B>:<br>:"}; if (wordType contains adjective) { definitions = definitions + "<br>:<B>:Adjective:</B>:<br>:"}; if (wordType contains adverb) { definitions = definitions + "<br>:<B>:Adverb:</B>:<br>:"}; definitions = definitions + string.mid (s, start, count); s = string.mid (s, xi + sizeof (pat2), infinity)}; s = definitions; s = string.replaceAll (s, "<FONT COLOR=Red>:<B>:", ""); s = string.replaceAll (s, "</B>:</FONT>:", ""); s = string.replaceAll (s, "\r\n", "<p>:\r\n"); adrcache^ = s; return (s)}}; lookup("Test")
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Unix Account Generation
Jan 6
sublime dvd download Some of the more interesting projects really can’t be seen in a website. One of the more interesting ones that I developed uses Frontier and dataComet (a scriptable telnet application) to generate unix accounts.
Using a unix script, I can find all students with the need for a unix account on our system. Once this data is generated, Frontier then ftp’s the information, processes the user information, and generates unique usernames and passwords.
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The second half of the process is done with dataComet. Frontier controls dataComet, telnets to our server, logs in as a superuser, and then uploads the account information previously generated. This was recently put into production (2/2/99) and processed over 1000 user accounts. I can’t imagine doing that by hand.
The really nice part was that this process made it trivial to upload the data into a database and then print out one sheet of information for each student. The professors loved having one page of instructions per student rather than sending them all to some office to fill out a form. For Continuning Education students, that becomes a significant inconvenience.
Tech Support CGI
Jan 6
I created a technical support cgi
script loosely based on the “tellParams” fcgi that Mason Hale wrote in 1995. The form page that comes up when you select the link above is used by students in the CyberEd program to submit technical problems to our student support staff. The form data, as well as much of the user’s browser information, is parsed by a call to the modified script. The form page calls a wsf page with the embedded script. Frontier then processes that script, and returns a nice thank you page to the student.
While that happens, Frontier emails a copy of all the data to O’Reilly’s WebBoard product. WebBoard then funnels the email message to an appropriate message board for our student staff to look at! All in all, a very helpful script. Write me if you want to learn more about it.
I used a combination of Frontier and FileMaker Pro to automate the web page construction of our semesterly class lab assignments. I used a FileMaker Pro interface to manage which classes are in which labs. Some relational features of FileMaker Pro were used to match up lab requirements and course requirements.
Using FileMaker’s “Send Apple event” feature in its scripting environment, I could send Frontier a script to execute. That script then did a search on all databases, finding all current information, and then sort and construct a web page with all of it. I hadmade modifications to it over the course of a year while there, continually improving it.
