Russell, Glad you're on the right track now... I recall being where you are just a few weeks ago. :) If you start up a MSDOS box from Windows and simply type TELNET, you can start their simple Telnet client. With that you can connect to your "basic seven line server" as it stands. Telnet is quite a useful tool for testing much networking... don't limit yourself to IE :) Hmmm, I just tried typing telnet://servername.com in Netscape and it opened a telnet client window... you might try that in IE too... I don't use IE (as few MS products as possible!) :) BTW, you can start REBOL with -sq options set to silence all those security messages and other stuff. I created a REBOL desktop shortcut and edited it's "properties" command line to include the -sq switches, and just double click on that shortcut to start up REBOL (unless it's already running, which seems to be the norm lately!) Or just insert a line that says "secure none" near the beginning of your programs. Good luck! Russ ------------ At 05:20 PM 10/24/99 -0700, you wrote: >Hi Russ! > >Thanks, your hint did the trick. I realized the spinning / was indicative >that the "server" was waiting for a client to call. I opened another >instance of REBOL and typed in the lines from the ref. doc. "A TCP >Conversation" to open remote, print first remote, then (I found I had >to )close remote. This resulted in the 'now output!! >I then created a loop of those lines and ran it 100 times (holding down the >enter button to react to the security box appearing over and over). The >server loop quit first, leaving a spinning / in the client instance of >REBOL. Eventually that timed out, I guess, then I closed 'remote. > >Thanks again! In my PC I don't "telnet", as I use Internet Explorer and >Outlook Express for everything, ftp, etc etc. I haven't had occasion to net >with other computers, except my Amiga via the Amiga Explorer interconnect. > >Russell, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
