On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Fernan Bolando<fernanbola...@mailc.net> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Richard Miller<9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: >>> although it uses http, twitter has got an api that you can use outside >>> a browser. it's much the same with several others, including aws. >>> there are reasonably clear descriptions of the messages, and you can >>> construct >>> and send them however you like, in which ever language you like. >> >> The 'stock' command (undocumented?) is a good example of this. >> (It's a 14-line shell script): >> >> term% stock goog >> "GOOG","Google Inc.",427.69,"7/22/2009",0.00,0 >> >> I have a similar little script to do currency conversions: >> >> term% currency usd eur >> 1 US Dollar (USD) = 0.70403 Euro (EUR) >> term% currency -d 10/30/2000 usd eur >> 1 US Dollar (USD) = 1.19046 Euro (EUR) >> >> which is just a bit of syntactic sugar wrapped around this: >> >> hget >> 'http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic?user=printable&exch='$xout'&expr='$xin'&value=1&date_fmt=us&date='$date >> | grep '^[ ]*1 ' >> >> >> > > now if somebody can create a script to lookup words in dictionary.com > preformatted without ads. :) > > -- > http://www.fernski.com > >
We already have dict, and that works offline... John -- "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba
