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- From: pendleton@ossenu.astro.nwu.edu (Jim Pendleton)
- Subject: Fix: Gopher 1.11b, VMS, MultiNet
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.104337.1@ossenu.astro.nwu.edu>
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- Organization: GRO/OSSE Northwestern U.
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:43:37 GMT
-
- Thanks to the guidance of JQ Johnson at the University of Oregon, we have
- discovered the trick to making Gopher 1.11B work for us under VMS and
- MultiNet. Perhaps by posting this, we can save others some time.
-
- Under VMS, it may be necessary to modify your include file search path to place
- MULTINET_COMMON_ROOT:[MULTINET.INCLUDE] at the beginning.
-
- The default NETDB.H found in SYS$LIBRARY (at least for our system, VMS 5.5-2,
- without UCX) has an older, incompatible definition of the "hostent" structure.
- The symptom you will see is a "connection refused by host" error when you try
- to connect with any server by name. (An IP number will connect you, but you'll
- be unable to access any items.)
-
- The simplest solution is to redefine sys$library as
-
- $ DEFINE SYS$LIBRARY MULTINET_COMMON_ROOT:[MULTINET.INCLUDE], -
- SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]
-
- before running MAKE or executing the COMPILE.COM's.
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Jim Pendleton, SysMgr
- GRO/OSSE, Dept. Physics & Astronomy
- Northwestern University
- j-pendleton@nwu.edu (708) 491-2748
-