Xref: utzoo comp.windows.misc:163 comp.windows.news:345 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!vdsvax!barnett From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.news Subject: NeWS on a mac? Message-ID: <4000@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 2 Mar 88 22:11:01 GMT References: <1500@sugar.UUCP> <7804@uunet.UU.NET> Reply-To: barnett@steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 22 Keywords: NeWS, X I hear that you can run NeWS on a Mac under the MacOS Finder. What can you do with NeWS on a Mac besides using it as a NeWS Server and connecting to another machine? I mean, can you develop NeWS software on a stand-alone Mac? I don't understand how this can be done with an operating system without true multitasking. As I see it, the NeWS server is running on a Mac waiting for a request. But since it is the only process, it must wait for an event from a serial port or network before it initiates anything. Maybe you can send commands to the server using psh, but how can you edit a file or program and test it without using another computer? Am I missing something? Or is NeWS on the MacOS useless in a stand-alone environment? -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!steinmetz!barnett