Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!rex!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!seaman.cc.purdue.edu!ags From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Mathematica? Webster? Keywords: Macintosh front-end Message-ID: <3726@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 14 Jan 91 17:57:59 GMT References: Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Reply-To: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) Distribution: comp Organization: Purdue University Lines: 31 In article shmuli@SHUM.HUJI.AC.IL (Shmuel Browns) writes: > 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). Yes, you can access the NeXT Mathematica kernel from a Mac. I have done it using a dialup connection, but the manual for the Mac version mentions that you can also do it over a network if you have the right software. You are right in saying that it is a one-way street -- you can't access the Mac Mathematica kernel from a remote machine. > 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. Yes. Try "man mathremote" on a NeXT. Using the Mathematica front end on the Mac, you can open a terminal window and use it to log on to a remote machine and then use the "mathremote" command to start up the remote kernel. Then you can close the terminal window and return to what looks like normal operation on the Mac. > 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. I don't know of any way to do that. -- Dave Seaman ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu