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Date: Sun 16-Aug-1989 08:18:56 From: Unknown Subject: Reading Mail on another cube "Is there any way to read my mail on [elsewhere] from this cube [using the NeXT Mail utility]?" Now, who was it who said that every problem has an answer that's simple, obvious, and WRONG? This is an "rMail" script--you use it like rlogin, but it provides a remote Mail rather than an interactive shell. (more comments follow) ------- cut here ------- #!/bin/csh -f set noglob set app=$0 set app=$app:t if ($app =~ r*) then set app=`expr $app : r\\\(.\*\\\)` foreach w ($path) if (-d $w/${app}.app) then set app=$w/${app}.app/$app break endif end else echo "${0}: what am I?" exit 1 endif if ($#argv == 0) then echo "Usage: $0 hostname [-l username] [args]" exit 1 else set remote=$1 ; shift if ($1 == -l) then set user=$2 ; shift ; shift exec /usr/ucb/rsh $remote -l $user -n exec $app -Host \ `hostname` $*:q else exec /usr/ucb/rsh $remote -n exec $app -Host `hostname` $*:q endif endif ------- cut here ------- You can try linking this to other names, like rTerminal, and see what happens. Be careful with rShell--I got nmserver to panic and die (not sure I can reproduce this). The check for a .app/ directory really should be done on the remote machine. Feedback to comp.sys.next. -=EPS=- >From: eht@f.word.cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer)
Date: Sun 22-Aug-1989 21:47:02 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Reading Mail on another cube epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes: >"Is there any way to read my mail on [elsewhere] from this cube >[using the NeXT Mail utility]?" >Feedback to comp.sys.next. 1. You must have the application in YOUR SHELL's path. This screwed me up because I'd just rcp'd my favorite .cshrc onto the NeXT. 2. You must be running a PUBLIC window server - click on the picture of the CuBE in the Preferences application, and then check beside (Can you guess?) Public Window Server. Ok, after a couple bruises and gouges in my forehead (from banging it against that neat looking black box), I got it to work. I BELIEVE! Now the serious questions: Where is this documented? Is Eric psychic? "Ommmm, Ommmm, It's the -Host option..." Is this something that's going to be useful? I mean, is Next going to make available their code, so that we can run applications on the super-mini in the basement and have them display here on my desk? Sun is also supposedly using Display PostScript for windows; I don't suppose there's any chance that.... Nah. Brian >From: cy@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Cyrus Foughty)
Date: Sun 23-Aug-1989 18:58:19 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Reading Mail on another cube In article <15349@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> brsmith@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Brian R. Smith) writes: }Sun is also supposedly using Display PostScript for windows; I don't }suppose there's any chance that.... Nah. "Nah" is right. According to the NeXT rep I talked to, Sun reverse engineered their Display PostScript and went their own way from there. It isn't and probably won't be compatible with NeXT displays.
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