Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dino!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!kent
From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dnet:  Accessing your Amiga from a Unix host;  Mailchk
Message-ID: <25611@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 90 18:25:00 GMT
References: <2472@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> <455@mohawk.cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk)
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Lines: 31

In article <455@mohawk.cs.utexas.edu> bryan@cs.utexas.edu writes:
>In article <2472@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> lobster@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Stephane LAROCHE) writes:
>=-
>=-    I have seen in the past some questions about using DSOC or PUTFILES
>=-(in fact any unix client) from a Unix host with the latest version of
>=-Dnet (2.10.13 ?).  People have noticed that they could used dsoc from an
>=-fterm, but not from another terminal.  Well, I have just discovered
>
>*looks* like it should create DNET.3 (the '3' is currently hardcoded).  This
>same function also sets $DNETHOST to the name of the socket it created, so
>everything is fine within the environment of the original DNet process.  Now,
>if you try dsoc from some shell that didn't inherit its environment from the
>DNet process, then $DNETHOST is not set.  Thus, dsoc (correctly) tries to
>connect to the default socket, DNET.3, and can't find it.  Barf.
>	As you said, the workaround is to put "setenv DNETHOST ' '" in your
>.login.

Hmmm, I had noticed that the latest version of Dnet DOES create a
'DNET.3', but the previous just a 'DNET.'. With the proevious
version, all worked fine, but with the new, servers couldn't be
found, etc. Essentially all I could do was to connect an fterm.
Anyway, I changed DNETHOST to ' ' and to 3, for the previous version,
and PRESTO, it fails in exactly the same way as the latest version of
DNET! 

(Does this just confuse the issue, or what?)

====================================================================
Kent Polk - Southwest Research Institute - kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
        Motto : "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing"
====================================================================