Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!SHUM.HUJI.AC.IL!shmuli From: shmuli@SHUM.HUJI.AC.IL (Shmuel Browns) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Mathematica? Webster? Keywords: Macintosh front-end Message-ID: Date: 14 Jan 91 07:19:44 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: comp Lines: 32 We're thinking about getting a NeXT machine and I wanted to check whether it could be used by others remotely to run Mathematica. We have Mathematica running on a Sun workstation and I can log into the Sun and run it (of course I don't get the PostScript graphics, just terminal graphics) or access it from the Macintosh front-end over a serial connection (9600bps) or ethernet via TCP/IP (I imagine also via a AppleTalk to Ethernet gateway like a FastPath). Obviously, the second solution is much better. What I need to know (since I don't have a NeXT available) is whether I can run the Mac front-end to the Mathematica kernel running on the NeXT (the version of Math. on the Mac for instance doesn't let anyone else access the kernel). Does the command mathremote exist on the NeXT? To run the Mac front-end I first log into the machine running the kernel and type mathremote and then return to the Mac and tell it to continue talking to the remote kernel. Along the same lines, can the reference material, Webster's dictionary, thesaurus, Shakespeare, quotations be accessed via users who have telnetted to NeXT? Is there any other way? - I remember reading something about a Webster server. Thanks, Shmuel --- Shmuel Browns, Macintosh & Unix Technical Support VOICE: +972-2-585669 MAIL: Computer Centre, Taylor Bldg, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904 ISRAEL BITNET: SHMULI@HUJINIX INTERNET: shmuli@shum.huji.ac.il FAX: +972-2-527349 -- --- Shmuel Browns, Macintosh & Unix Technical Support VOICE: +972-2-585669 MAIL: Computer Centre, Taylor Bldg, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904 ISRAEL BITNET: SHMULI@HUJINIX INTERNET: shmuli@shum.huji.ac.il FAX: +972-2-527349