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From: lacsap@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Pascal Chesnais)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: NeXT as an X client?
Summary: compile your client programs with the x library
Message-ID: <4859@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 13 Jan 91 16:57:18 GMT
References: <1991Jan12.221524.13461@sapphire.idbsu.edu>
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In article <1991Jan12.221524.13461@sapphire.idbsu.edu>, alex@sapphire.idbsu.edu (Alex Feldman) writes:
> Greetings.  We would like to use one of the new NeXT machines (68040)
> as a {\sl 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 people at NeXT do not think we can do this, we 
> can just log in from ascii terminals... yet I am told that there is
> a complete X11R3 for the NeXT, which would seem to indicate that we 
> could do that.
> 
I will answer this one in a different way, since I do not know much about
mathematica.  You can compile the X libraries R3 or R4 on the NeXT with a
little work.  Once you have your library, you can compile your x-client
(like gnu-emacs) using the Xlibraries, so that when you run the program
with DISPLAY set up to be the connecting machine, the window should appear
on the display of the connected machine.  Now if you want to run a x client
from anywhere and want it to appear on your NeXT, you are out of luck.  If
you want your NeXT window to appear on an X server you are also out of luck.

Now for the mathematica part, doesn't it just run as a server?  If so
you would still need a front end that would be able to talk to it and
do the right things with X...

Someone who understands Mathematica really should field that question.

pasc

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Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Electronic Publishing Group
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