Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!news.funet.fi!ngw!news.funet.fi!not-for-mail From: Bernard Lang Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: Gotcha with Street Atlas 2.0 (no networks) Date: 3 Mar 1994 21:31:33 +0200 Organization: FUNET-NGW Lines: 21 Sender: daemon@news.funet.fi Distribution: alt Message-ID: <9403031411.AA16655@margaux.inria.fr> Reply-To: Bernard Lang NNTP-Posting-Host: news.funet.fi Return-Path: <@UCCVMA.UCOP.EDU:B.lang@INRIA.FR> Comments: To: rpicard@GMR.COM Comments: cc: CDROM-L%UCCVMA.BITNET@frmop11.cnusc.fr, blang@margaux.inria.fr To: CDROM-L Redistribution > I came across a similar problem when I tested Computer Select. It was > smart enough to know I was mounting the CD drive (via NFS) and > wouldn't let me run it. It at least told me why, and that a network > version was available. That is why X-windows is nice. You just run on the machine that has the drive. The drive does not know, since you are logged on the machine that has it, even though using the screen of another. Alternative: a gopher-like kind of program. It logs on the machine just long enough to pick the info you want, and pointers to take you further later if you ask. But it may require specific software. I believe dictionnary servers have been installed in more or less that way. Now I have no idea about the legal issues involved, since in this case the drive is accessed by a single machine, and is not directly on the net. Bernard Lang