- (connect server #!key (port (*default-port*)) (client "dict.egg for chicken scheme") (timeout #f)) => CONNECTIONprocedure
Connects to the dict-server with the specified port or the default-port as specified in rfc2229 (2628). Once the connection is established, the server's banner is parsed and information are extracted. Finally the procedure issues a client-command with the specified client-string as parameter. The value for timeout is directly used to set the timeout for tcp-connect. The procedure returns a connection-object on success or signals an error otherwise.