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Search the Online Dictionary of Computing
This snippet is desinged to create a search capability of the Online Dictionary of Computing. The handler is in the script will work with the Big Cat Plug-in from Ranchero Software. But the code is easily reusable for many situations.
on main(s)
set baseurl to "http://www.InstantWeb.com/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query="
open location baseurl & s & "&action=Search"
end main
(* Change the url to the following site that is closest to your location.There are copies of the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing in
several countries:
http://www.foldoc.org/ Imperial College London, UK - the master site
http://foldoc.hld.c64.org Adelaide Australia
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/study/foldoc/ Vienna University of Technology Austria
http://www.foldoc.huggle.com/ foldoc.huggle.com Canada
http://hkbu.dyndns.org/foldoc dyndns.org, Hong Kong China
http://wall.jussieu.fr/foldoc/ Universit? Denis Diderot - Paris 7 France
http://www-lli.univ-paris13.fr/foldoc University Paris XIII France
http://www.nue.org/foldoc/index.html NUE, Tokyo Japan
http://csai03.is.noda.sut.ac.jp/foldoc/ Science University of Tokyo, Chiba Japan
http://www.cs.tuiasi.ro/library/foldoc/ CCTI - TU Iasi Romania
http://www.up-front.co.za/foldoc Up-Front (in Afrikaans) South Africa
http://ftp.sunet.se/foldoc/index.html SUNET Sweden
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/foldoc Bilkent University Turkey
http://wwwacs.gantep.edu.tr/foldoc/ Gaziantep University Turkey
http://foldoc.usefulcontent.org/ usefulcontent.org UK
http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc InstantWeb USA, California
http://www.nightflight.com/foldoc NightFlight USA, California
http://foldoc.linuxguruz.org/ linuxguruz.org USA, Pennsylvania
http://www.dictionary.com/ dictionary.com *)
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