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- README -- Remotes-2.0 description and installation notes (January, 1991)
-
- Description
- Remotes is a companion package to Terminal and Stuart. It simplifies the
- management of Terminal and Stuart sessions.
-
- Remotes can launch local Terminal and Stuart sessions. It can also establish
- sessions with remote hosts using the rlogin, telnet, and tn3270 protocols.
-
- Features
- The primary window is so tiny that you can hide it behind the dock. It
- consists of a single button that displays a pop-up list of your local and
- remote hosts. To launch a new Terminal or Stuart session, just drag to the
- desired entry in your pop-up list.
-
- Each host configuration (e.g., auto start, window location, lines, columns,
- font, font size, protocol, login ID, etc) can be tailored individually.
-
- Just as you can auto launch applications, Remotes can be configured to auto
- launch Terminal and Stuart sessions. When you launch Remotes, it can
- automatically establish sessions with remote hosts. This is useful if you
- auto launch Remotes from your dock. Simply logging in to your NeXT can
- establish sessions with foreign hosts.
-
- For more information, select help from the Remotes menu.
-
- Prerequisites
- Remotes-2.0 requires NeXT System Release 2.0 (standard or extended).
- If you wish to use Stuart with Remotes-2.0, you must use Stuart Release 2.0.
- (Stuart is not required to use Remotes, however.)
-
- Availability
- Remotes has been placed into the pub/next/submissions directory at cs.orst.edu.
- It should appear at sonata.cc.purdue.edu in the near future.
-
- Installation
- 1. Unpack the source code
-
- % uncompress -cvV Remotes-2.0.tar.Z | tar xvf -
-
- 2. Install Remotes in the desired installation directory. Usually, this
- is your personal Apps directory, ~/Apps, or the system Apps directory,
- /LocalApps. To install it in your personal Apps directory, type:
-
- % cd Remotes-2.0
- % make install
-
- Getting Started
- When you first launch Remotes, it will create local Terminal and Stuart
- entries. To launch one of these two entries, click on the button in the Hosts
- window, drag to the desired choice, release the button, and the Terminal or
- Stuart application will be launched.
-
- Select the configuration menu option and the configuration window will appear.
- Click on the Remote Systems button, drag to the desired entry, release the
- button, and the characteristics for the entry will be displayed. Additional
- hosts can be created by filling in the appropriate fields and clicking on the
- add button. Similarly, host configurations can be deleted or changed.
-
- Select the help menu option for more information.
-
- License
- Remotes is under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Refer to the
- file COPYING for details.
-
- Rex Pruess, Weeg Computing Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
- rpruess@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (NeXTmail) (319) 335-5452
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