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From: rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
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Subject: Re:  NeXT as an X client?
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Date: 23 Jan 91 01:54:27 GMT
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In article <9101210602.AA10296@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
	mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU writes:
>> We would like to use one of the new NeXT machines (68040) as a
>> Mathematica server, where students could login and run said program
>> from remote terminals.  In particular, we would like to have them
>> able to log in from X-terminals, and use the graphics capabilities.
>
>The NeXT can run X clients very nicely.  There is no problem with that;
>ports of R3 and R4 exist.
>
>However, the NeXT native applications do not use X and are incapable of
>displaying on an X-only machine like an X terminal.

Note that if you can run an xterm, then you can get mathematica's
graphics capabilities through the 4014 emulator built into xterm (I
first wondered why it was there until I needed to use 'plot' and
mathematica!  Thanks to whoever wrote this code...).

From mathematica you will want to load the "Tek.m" file which
initializes graphics for tektronix 4014 terminals; then you can just
use the xterm menu (via Ctrl-{left,middle,right} buttons) to switch to
tek mode when you do a plot.  Mathematica will clear the screen before
it does a plot, too.

						-- Rich
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