Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!n025fc From: n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu (Kevin Weller) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Andrew without Internet? Message-ID: Date: 10 Mar 91 20:21:25 GMT Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Distribution: comp Organization: Texas A&M University, Computer Science Department Lines: 38 I apologize if this seems like an incredibly silly question, but I am very much a beginner with X and Andrew. Besides, I can't find anything in the docs that states, in a nutshell, exactly what Andrew is! According to my interpretation, it is a set of X applications with a common protocol for multimedia document storage and transfer--that about right? I'm mainly interested in the word processing and graphics programs, not the mail stuff. Now the real question: Does Andrew require a machine to be connected to the internet? See, I'm not on internet (though I have access to it via campus computers), and in fact, I'm not currently on ANY network. The only reason I can run X11R4 under XENIX SysV (for 386 PC's) is the socket EMULATION driver Chain Lee wrote. Since I'm not currently interested in the networking aspects of X, I'd just like to compile those parts of Andrew that do word processing, spreadsheets, etc. I thought I configured the installation accordingly, but it seems that some source in the overhead library requires true networking support; my compile is currently stuck on overhead/util/lib/getaddr.c since my machine HAS NO INTERNET ADDRESS to get. Is there something extra I should be doing to disable network reliance in the Andrew system? Any configuring/compiling tips at all would be greatly appreciated, but if I can't make Andrew work without TCP/IP or something, then I'll just have to give up for now. I hope that won't be necessary, but I've learned to take the "you can't do that on your puny little system" response with some composure. :-( Thanx in advance! -- Kev -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin L. Weller /-------+--------------------\ internet: n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu | aTm | GIG 'EM, AGGIES! | CIS: 73327,1447 (but I rarely log on) \-------+--------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ %SYS-E-BADOPSYS, Fatal system error, DEC VMS halting / "And now for something -SYS-I-GETUNIX, Replace with UNIX immediately! / completely different." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Monty Python