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From: jsb@cs.brown.edu (John Bazik)
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Subject: Re: XTee: Viewing Client / Server Actvity
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Date: 17 Dec 90 18:26:08 GMT
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In article <CHRISTIA.90Dec15011128@carob.ssc.gov>, christia@carob.ssc.gov (Mike Christiansen) writes:
|> We are looking for a utility which can be used to view (not just monitor)
|> the actvity between a client and a server on a second server. That is, a
|> way to present the activty between a client application and a user on a
|> server on a second server. The name XTee comes to mind because this
|> application would behave as a Tee connection in the connection between
|> the client and the server.  We have found a utility xwatchwin which almost
|> does this, but it only snaps a picture of a window on a server. We have
|> also found a utility xscope which does monitor the interaction between the
|> client / server, but only prints an ascii log of those events. 

XMX, an X Protocol Multiplexor, does this.  It is a pseudo-server that
sends an output-only view of an X session to any number of X servers.

We use it for teaching in our workstation-equipped classroom.

XMX is available for anonymous ftp:

		host:	wilma.cs.brown.edu (128.148.31.66)
		file:	pub/xmx.tar.Z

John Bazik
jsb@cs.brown.edu