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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.dos-under-unix
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!Celestial.COM!ray
- From: ray@Celestial.COM (Ray Jones)
- Subject: Re: dos from unix(x-windows)
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:08:25 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.010825.10978@Celestial.COM>
- References: <1993Jan13.202628.631339@sue.cc.uregina.ca> <1993Jan15.230301.21366@Celestial.COM> <TIR.93Jan18193605@lk-hp-21.hut.fi>
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- In <TIR.93Jan18193605@lk-hp-21.hut.fi> tir@lk-hp-21.hut.fi (Timo Riikonen) writes:
-
- >>In my office, we are running 2 SCO UNIX ODT (with X-windows), 2 SCO Xenix,
- >>and 1 Interactive UNIX systems. There are also 2 DOS machines with Windows
- >>and 1 Tektronix X-terminal. We have no trouble running WordPerfect, MS word
- >>and many, many other DOS apps from any of the machines on the net - using
- >>exactly the same file. (all the UNIX and Xenix boxes run either DOS Merge or
- >>VPIX.)
-
- >Correct me if I am wrong, but I would suppose that you run DOS
- >emulator in another virtual terminal, wake up Windows and a Windows
- >application.
- >As I understand you can't run Windows applications on an X that is
- >running on top of UNIX.
-
- We run DOS and MS Windows from the DOS machines on the network. Character
- based DOS apps from any of the machines including the X-terminals. Just use
- the right machine for the righ app.
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