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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: host:display.screen
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.145420@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 5 Feb 91 22:54:20 GMT
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In article <9102041741.AA03063@TERRE.matra-espace.fr>, paulet@terre.matra-espace.fr (Pascal PAULET 6109 FAMI2) writes:
|> can you tell me if anybody knows implementations where a single host
|> supports multiple displays (not screens!).

Some of the serial X terminals do this.  They have one or more servers
running on the host in addition to the server controlling the host
display.  Each server has a different display number in the
host:display.screen syntax.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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