dlb28311@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Black) (03/24/91)
Has anyone successfully run mailchk/smailchk on UNIX-based dnet?
I have two versions in my possession, one which was a uu archive
inside dnet.LZH (on uunet.uu.net), and another I obtained from
a helpful person who runs dnet on a VAX. Both sort of work
on the NeXT I am using as a UNIX host, but not too well. I guess
I am lucky because all of the included dnet clients/servers seem
to run perfectly.
Some of you dnetters might like to hear these tidbits:
dnet.device *can be used to run a second dnet with the first as
a host, over the same physical connection, and maybe a third,
but I haven't tried that. Module sernet.c in dnet must be modified,
however, as dnet will quit if it can't explicitly set the baud rate
of the device it uses. I call my modified version dnet1, and here's how it's
done: dnet1 -N1 -Ddnet.device -U8195 -m0 -8 -X .
That last X isn't necessary. This will bring up another dnet window,
which has a cshell in it from dnet 0. Neat-o, eh? A buddy and I have been
running pseudo-direct dnets between our amigas lately, with a UNIX
dnet and NFS: still available. This works well. Running another dnet
on a different UNIX host doesn't, so far.
Also, Matt mentions that he calls the University from home, starts
dnet, drives to the University, and accesses his amiga from there.
I couldn't get this to work, until I found that dnet requires an
environment variable DNETHOST on the UNIX end to connect clients
to Amiga servers. This wasn't anywhere in the docs, but a:
setenv DNETHOST ' ' seems to work in my case. Also, setting DNETDIR
to someone else's .dnet directory on the same machine is possible,
for access to their amiga, but that is kind of implied in the docs.
I have found dnet to be extremely useful, and it would make my day
to hear that Matt is still working on it, or a recent update has
been released. (Matt, are you listening?)
e-mail to: dave-b@uiuc.edu or black@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu. UXA is going to
be down during the next week, and mail sent there may bounce.
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