Accessing dictd from Windows...?

[tantiboh]

Anybody ever come across away to access Linux's dictd servers in a Windows program?

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[Stephen Brooker]

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Anybody ever come across away to access Linux's dictd servers in a Windows program?

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It's a simply TCP based protocol, so you can access it quite easily
using the TCPClient class.

[Stephen Brooker]

Stephen Brooker wrote:

ta******@hotmail.com wrote:

Anybody ever come across away to access Linux's dictd servers in a
Windows program?

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It's a simply TCP based protocol, so you can access it quite easily
using the TCPClient class.

Check out www.dict.org for more info and a copy of the RFC.