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- From: jos@bull.nl (Jos Vos)
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- Subject: Re: What is Xremote?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.192433.27115@sm.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 19:24:33 GMT
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 12:50:20 GMT
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- koverber@cs.ulowell.edu (Kurt Overberg) writes:
-
- >I saw someone post something about a program called
- >Xremote? It sounds interesting, what is it? Could it
- >be a way to dial into my machine at work and set my
- >display to my 486 at home?! Wow! That would be
- >great! Thanks... :)
-
- A few remarks on your question:
-
- - Having your 486 (either running UNIX or MS-DOS) act as
- X server is possible. For UNIX this is obvious, for
- MS-DOS (and also for MS-Windows) are commercial products
- available. I believe that the products of Hummingbird
- are considered to be one of the best.
-
- - You need then some networking protocol on your serial line.
- SLIP (Serial Line IP) is the most commonly known solution,
- PPP is another possibility.
-
- - NCD has developed a special protocol for dealing with the
- X protocol on serial lines. It includes compression techniques,
- I believe. Of course, NCD has included this software in their
- X-terminal-software, and for the X-client-side (e.g. UNIX-server)
- you can buy the software.
- I think NCD has contributed Xremote to the X consortium, and it
- might be included in X11R6. Maybe someone else can comment on this.
-
- - I don't know how SLIP/PPP and modems with good compression techniques
- (V.42bis) relate to Xremote w.r.t. performance. Any comments?
-
- Hopefully this explains some things.
-
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- -- Jos Vos <jos@bull.nl> (UUCP: ...!{uunet,mcsun,sun4nl}!nlbull!jos)
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