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From: klee@chico.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
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Subject: Re: can I display Mac applications remotely using X?
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Date: 20 Oct 89 20:20:30 GMT
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In article <1989Oct20.183825.6061@csmil.umich.edu>,
holtz@zurich.csmil.umich.edu (Brian Holtz) writes:
> I've heard that there's an X server that runs under Mac OS; would this
> be a way to have regular Mac applications display remotely on other
> workstations?  Is there _any_ way to do such a thing?

I'm pretty sure the answers to your questions are no and no, at least
with currently available software.  The Mac X server only supports X
clients running on other machines and connected via Ethernet (or
possibly other networks).  You could theoretically write a version of
the Mac toolkit that converted the toolkit interface into X protocol,
but I know of knowone working on anything like this.  Mac OS and the
Mac toolkit have many nice features.  Networking of applications is not
one of them.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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