From: Paul Guyot (pguyot_at_kallisys.net)
Date: Tue Feb 24 2004 - 13:39:06 PST
Aux environs du 24/02/04 ā 22:40 +0200, sous le titre "Re: [NTLK]
installing pkg's in panther", Eckhart Köppen prit sa plus belle plume
pour écrire les mots suivants:
>On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 06:58:54 +0000, Ian Lewis wrote:
>> heres where i am: i can get the newton to open up a connection through
>> Newtscape but there is no response from "mac.local". this is just a
>> connection between a Mac and a Newt. where am i goin wrong..?
>
>I'm not sure, but it seems that the Newton doesn't know what to do with
>"mac.local". If you open Terminal and enter ifconfig -a, it should give
>you a list of network devices, and for each device the IP address after
>the "inet" keyword. You could try to contact the Mac via the IP address
>directly instead of "mac.local".
>
>Paul Guyot should know more about this though, he has worked
>intensively with Rendezvous (which seems to be used here).
The Newton cannot resolve Rendezvous name (actually, only our Dock
TCP/IP extension can).
So you need to type the IP in Newtscape.
Plus Rendezvous is completely buggy in Panther anyway.
Paul
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