Re: your WWW questions

peterson@choctaw.csc.ti.com (Bob Peterson)

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From: peterson@choctaw.csc.ti.com (Bob Peterson)
Message-id: <9206301148.AA10506@choctaw.csc.ti.com>
Subject: Re: your WWW questions
To: jfg@dxcern.cern.ch (Jean Francois Groff)
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 92 6:48:45 CDT
Cc: serrano@osage.csc.ti.com, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
In-reply-to: <9206300929.AA11026@dxcern.cern.ch>; from "Jean Francois Groff" at Jun 30, 92 11:29 am
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You said:
> 
> 	Hello !
> 	...
>   ..."TheProject.html" is the hypertext page that you obtain when
> clicking on the "?" icon in Viola, and then on the first link named
> "World-Wide Web". If it doesn't work, it probably means that your
> Internet connection has a problem, perhaps a bad configuration of the
> name server. Try typing this in the "Doc ID" field at the bottom of Viola:
> 
> 	http://128.141.201.74/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
> 
> and hit Return.

  The problem is caused, as I understand it, by the (single) gateway
between the company's internal networks and the Internet.  That gateway
allows _NO_ TCP/IP connections between an internal machine and an
external machine.  Also, the gateway machine offers no compiler and, in
general, refuses to allow ordinary users to install arbitrary code,
e.g., www.

>   Cheers !
> 
> --
>   Jean-Francois Groff (jfg@info.cern.ch)

    Bob

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