Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!xanth!xanth.cs.odu.edu!feit From: feit@cs.odu.edu (Mark A. Feit) Newsgroups: comp.groupware Subject: Re: Shared-Window Teleconferencing Tools Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 90 00:32:31 GMT References: <820@agcsun.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.odu.edu Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA Lines: 63 In-reply-to: marks@agcsun.UUCP's message of 26 Jul 90 22:22:43 GMT marks@agcsun.UUCP (Mark Shepherd) writes: Hi. Does anyone know of a software product that will allow several users at several locations on several types of workstations (Suns Macs and PCs) to all contribute text and graphics to a common window in real-time. [STUFF DELETED] - several shared X-window implementations (to my knowledge, these are experiments rather than actual products) Yes, unfortunately, those kinds of things are still laboratory curiosities. I am working on one of them, and I've had so much success with the prototype that I'm going to expand it into an application. Hopefully, it will be ready for release to the general public by the end of the year. Requirements will probably be along these lines: Any architecture/OS combination capable of running X and compiling C. X11R3 or later TCP/IP 10 M-Bit Ethernet (works better with a fibernet, though) If you're still interested, drop me your e-mail address and I'll keep you posted. but what I want is a product that will work on several different kinds of machine at the same time. All of the X packages that I know of will fill that last requirement since the X server and its protocol are portable. The product should work over standard dial-up modems (at least when there's only two stations). Actually, the dial-up thing is a separate problem which can be solved by installing SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol, available by anonymous FTP from uunet.uu.net, among other places) on the system(s) in question and you'll be able to run an X server on one end and clients elsewhere. - Mark ................................... ................................... : Mark A. Feit : feit@cs.odu.edu : : Old Dominion University CS Dept. : feit@xanth.UUCP : : Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A., Earth : "So where's my lunch, anyway?" : ................................... ................................... Y :)8 G-G-G-D-E-C -- - Mark ................................... ................................... : Mark A. Feit : feit@cs.odu.edu : : Old Dominion University CS Dept. : feit@xanth.UUCP : : Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A., Earth : "So where's my lunch, anyway?" : ................................... ................................... Y :)8 G-G-G-D-E-C