Getting the examples to run

Once you have successfully installed orbit, getting the examples to run should be fine. The examples are available by ftp from ftp://opera.u-strasbg.fr/pub/ORBit/orbit-docs.tar.gz. Gunzip and untar the package, perhaps like:
prompt% gunzip -c orbit-doc.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
This should build a documentation directory that contains this documentation in both sgml (docbook) and html, and an examples directory. Move to the examples directory, and go
prompt%./configure

prompt%cd echo
prompt%make
Similarly for the calculator example.

To actually run the echo example, open two windows up. Run echo-server in one and echo-client in the other (echo-server writes out the file echo.ior which echo-client reads). If you want to have fun now, compile orbit on a different machine, make echo-client on the different machine, move echo.ior from the first machine to the second and run echo-client: eh voila - client/server over tcp/ip with the same code that ran using unix sockets on a single machine.