Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: bionet.software Subject: Re: X on Internet Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 91 06:06:09 GMT References: <9102261032.AA22393@genbank.bio.net> <1991Feb27.011557.7398@news.iastate.edu> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 18 I write: >Actually there is a new tool available called Xremote that distributes >the task of processing X protocol requests between a local UNIX system >and a remote X server (``remote'' being on the other end of some serial >connection; presumably anything acting like a terminal would do). >This is not unlike what Graphon and NCD do to improve serial line >performance. Because the program documentation I had read was for the client side of the NCD serial communications protocol. Thus it requires an NCD on the other side, so that should answer the question of availability. Oops.. -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]