[tied] Re: Cattle Trouble

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 29185
Date: 2004-01-07

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>
wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...>
> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 00:15:03 +0000, Richard Wordingham
> > > <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > >I'm baffled. Yesterday, I found nothing looking up 'bubalus'
> at
> > > >Perseus. Today, looking up 'bubal', I found _bubalinus_ with
a
> > > >mention of _bubalus_ but no dictionary entry. I then looked
> > > >up 'bubalum' and was told it was an inflected form; I
selected
> > > >possible headwords, and found _bubalus_! (The meaning given
> > > >is 'antelope, wild ox' and the word is from Greek.) If I
look
> > > >up 'bubalus', I get an error message - 'No such file
> > XML///.xml.'.
> > > >I've submitted a fault report to Perseus.
> > >
> > > Apparently, they've fixed it real quick:
> > >
> > > http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%
> > 3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3D%235760
> >
> > Alas, no. It still doesn't work for me. (Your link does.)
Maybe
> > there's a fault in my version of MSXML - I upgraded from 3.2 (I
> > think) to 4.0 a few months ago, but this is the first time I've
> > noticed any problems.
> >
> > I get the query from using http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-
> > bin/resolveform?lang=la. I've just noticed that if I choose an
> > exact match, rather using the default 'begin', it works fine.
> >
> > Richard.
> **********
> I had to follow the same strange route to the Lewis and Short
> definition. To save others the effort, here it is:

It's a 'known issue' -
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Help/TextHelp.html#know . Once you're
at a nearby entry from the *same* original dictionary, you can inch
forward or backwards to it using the blue arrows for navigation.
The technique to use if you get the error message (their work-around
does not seem to be applicable in that case) seems to be to keep
deleting final letters until you get dictionary entries. They seem
to be interested in which words cause the problem.

Richard.