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In article <2omoj0$97c@birdie-blue.cis.pitt.edu> djbpitt@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:

   A recent posting about this issue landed no responses; I'll try once
   more before concluding that I'm the only person in the world who is
   attempting this configuration.

   The excellent WWW OS/2 home page at MIT at:

	   http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/os2/os2world.html

   mentions that there is a "w3" extension for Emacs that will allow users
   to browse the WWW. I dutifully followed instructions and tried to start
   w3 from an OS/2 emacs session, only to receive the following error
   message:

	   Symbol's function definition is void: open-network-stream

   I am not an experienced emacs user and I have no idea what this means.
   Can anyone explain how to overcome it? FWIW, I installed the fulls emacs
   suite in ftp-os2.cdrom.com /pub/os2/2_x/unix/emacs22, plus w3 and the
   "extras" package mentioned if one traces the Emacs line of the
   aforementioned MIT OS/2 WWW home page.

There seem to be a number of people who would like to access WWW from
OS/2, only to be disappointed.  Mosaic for Windows won't run under
OS/2 (the latest version that is), and Mosaic for OS/2 seems to be
little more than a pipe-dream at the moment, unless someone with
access to TCP/IP libraries volunteers to ask for the Windows source
code and port it.
	As for Emacs, although I never tried to use w3 from OS/2 (I
played around with it on a Sun once), I never believed that it could
work, because the `open-network-stream' function requires that the
person compiling the code has access to TCP/IP libraries.  I don't
know if Eberhard Mattes, the porter to OS/2, has such access, but in
any case I suspect that he wouldn't be interested in supporting such
functions until a public-domain library is available (one is currently
under development).
	Otherwise, for OS/2 users who want to access the World Wide
Web, the only choice seems to be to reboot under Windows or Linux and
run Mosaic (or w3 under Linux) from there.
					Cheers,
							Tony.
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