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Date:	Sat, 12 May 2007 11:24:25 -0700
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Hoblink

In <200705121344.l4CDiJQr042039@smtp.ucsd.edu>, on 05/12/07
at 06:44 AM, sshapiro@UCSD.Edu said:

Hi,

>I thought I was using wired (cat 5) connection, but it turns out I am
>using wireless. (During startup I got some kind of error message
>regarding lan0).

Hmmm. Make sure you have a working loopback interface and that you have
USE_HOSTS_FIRST defined in config.sys.

>I didn't realize that the internet connection would have any bearing on
>running Hoblink!

I see. :-) See

http://www.xfree86.org/current/X.7.html

which defines X as a portable, network-transparent window system.

X was invented to allow you to run graphic applications on remote systems
so there needs to be some sort of network transport so that the data can
be passed between the local and remote systems.

HOBLink's xserver is an implementation of an X server that is limited in
the sense that it only TCP/IP transport.

One of the beauties of tcp/ip is that when a client talks to the server
the client and server can be anywhere, even on the same machine, and
neither the client or server care.

>(I will try and get this message out -- I am not having trouble receiving
>messages, but outgoing mail seems to be blocked)

Not this one. :-)

Steven

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