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Date:      Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:55:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: can't start acm
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980416125452.7029T-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980416080046.282A-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>

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On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote:

> I can't start acm, the flight simulator, and i don't know what i'm doing
> wrong.
> 
> When I do this:
> # acms &
> [1] 872
> # ACM version 4.7,  Copyright (C) 1991-1994   Riley Rainey
> (rainey@netcom.com)
> 
> ACM comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under the
> conditions described in the COPYING file.
> 
> I got that:
> 
> # acm localhost
> _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for outpost.nada.org
> acm: can't open outpost.nada.org:0.0
> outpost.nada.org:0.0
> # 
> 
> ... and the game is not running.
> 
> what am I doing wrong?

ACM can't find the address of your X server.  Make sure that
output.nada.org is defined in /etc/hosts.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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