From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 16 16:41:40 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA03975 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 16:41:40 -0800 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA03939 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 16:41:14 -0800 Received: from g386bsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29346; Thu, 16 Feb 95 20:27:14 +0100 Received: by g386bsd.first.gmd.de (UAA11626); Thu, 16 Feb 1995 20:29:24 +0100 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199502161929.UAA11626@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: talk,pop3,Xwinman,webrowse To: duane@dtq.ptw.com (Duane Ellison) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 20:29:24 +0059 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Duane Ellison" at Feb 15, 95 10:52:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1868 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 1. For some reason I am unable to 'talk' on my machine. I get an > invalid socket. I have checked the /etc/inetd.conf and talk was > #talk and ntalk was setup, but that doesn't work either. Now maybe > I am looking in the wrong area, but I am at a loss. I suspect you are on a standalone machine. talk only works with a network. No one has fixed that yet, as far as i know. > 2. My service provider has pop3 running on his machine and I don't have > a clue as to how to grab the mail from him via a ppp connect. If > this is generally a bad idea I would appreciate the info Not necessary a bad idea :-). But, i don't know if there is a good unix solution to get your mail with pop. You can look at the pine port, this has something with pop in it. > 3. I have ftped and installed /usr/X11R6 and only have /usr/X11R6/bin/twm > as my availble manager. I pulled the olvwm package and installed it > but can not run it because I get a missing libo*. I would at least > like to have a different choice of managers to run. Soemwhere at the same place where the olvwm package is sitting the libraries are also available. You can also try the "fvwm", yet another window manager for X, or "piewm". At least source ports of these two are available. > 4. I am sure there is a x web browser but I am unsure of what it is that > I am trying to pull. I am trying to have a single internet solution > with unix/freebsd wihout having to load a windows or os/2 program > to provide a single part of the solution. You can get "netscape" available at "ftp.mcom.com" ? You need to use the BSDI binary. Or you can use "chimera", somewhere in the ports area. ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe