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From: painter@lll-lcc.UUCP (Jeffrey F. Painter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti.explorer
Subject: Re: talking to a Unix machine from a Symbolics via CLX (a query)
Summary: Can do it from LMI Lambda
Keywords: client, server, X, Unix, Lisp, CLX, Symbolics
Message-ID: <2788@lll-lcc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 90 18:18:47 GMT
References: <10681@unix.SRI.COM>
Reply-To: painter@lll-lcc.llnl.gov.UUCP (Jeffrey F. Painter)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, Comp Center, Livermore CA
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>I have X-windows running on a Unix machine. I also have a Symbolics.  The 
>Symbolics can communicate with the Unix machine via TCP/IP.
>Does anyone out there have any idea how I could accomplish the following?  
>* Run CLX on the Symbolics  (client)
>* Use the X-server on the Unix machine as the display for the client.  
>Question:  Does the Symbolics have to run X ?  

I have run CLX on another brand of Lisp machine, an LMI Lambda, and
displayed its windows on a Sun 3/50 running X.  The Lambda has no X
server, and had no X software of any kind until I brought up CLX.  I
have so far tested it only on some simple demos, but it seems to work
fine.  It was not unreasonably hard to bring up CLX on the Lambda, so
I imagine anybody could do it on a Symbolics or any other Lisp machine
too.  There were various compilation problems to bypass, and a tiny
machine-dependent function to write, open-x-stream.

I would be happy to provide more details by E-mail, but they would
be interesting only to LMI Lambda users.

Jeffrey F. Painter        painter@lll-crg.llnl.gov