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From: atdep@ducvax.auburn.edu (Black Dougal)
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Subject: Re: Win3/X11 via modem possible?
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.163433.3551@ducvax.auburn.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 22:34:33 GMT
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Since other people were also interested in this topic, I thought I'd go
ahead and post a couple of the responses I got via email.  I'd still like
to see any more info that people might be able to share.  Please post,
but I'll summarize any email replies.

Brad Hines (brad@huey.Jpl.Nasa.Gov) writes:

>Yes, this is possible.  Start with a good SLIP package (Serial Line
>Internet Protocol).  I believe that there are good SLIP packet drivers
>available in the public domain (KA9Q, NCSA telnet, etc).  We use a
>protocol layer from FTP software (Cambridge, MA) (we use ethernet,
>but they have SLIP products as well).  Then several companies make
>X-for-Windows software; FTP should be able to refer you to some.
>
>Or, for something more likely to work in finite time, Sun sells
>PC-NFS, which includes all the SLIP software for both the Sun end and
>the PC end.  All you have to add then is the X-for-Windows stuff.  Also,
>grab one of the text files off cica describing using pc-nfs with windows.
>
>-- 
>Brad Hines
>Internet: brad@huey.jpl.nasa.gov
>Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, California


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Marc Kuperstein (marc@meaddata.com) writes:

>Some of us here are looking into this area, and here is what we know
>so far.
>
>First, there are several companies that sell an X server for the PC, a
>couple of which run under Windows.  Xvision and Locus are two such
>products (if you can't get a phone number, send me a note and I'll try
>to get them).  These products all require some type of network.
>
>Now for the slick part.  A company called FTP sells a product called
>PC/TCP, in a variety of flavors.  This product allows applications
>above it to talk TCP, and provides a comm path via an async line (i.e.
>switched modems) to another system.  On the Sun side you can run
>either SLIP or PPP (both of which are available via the net) to
>communicate with PC/TCP.
>
>The thing to watch out for is that the PC products should state
>whether they work with FTP PC/TCP.
>
>Hope this helps.  If you want to discuss this further, send me a note.
>I'll help if I can.
>
>Oh, when I mentioned that I was going to be running an X server on a
>PC and the X clients on a Sun over a 9600 baud line most of the
>vendors balked.  They said that while this was possible, the results
>could be really slow if your not careful.  Note: Don't go less than
>9.6Kbps.
>
>Best of luck.
>======================================================================
>Marc Kuperstein                                         (513) 865-1028   
>Mead Data Central                     Architecture & Systems Evolution 
>P.O. Box 933                                         marc@meaddata.com
>Dayton, Ohio  45401                            ...!uunet!meaddata!marc


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Thanks to Brad and Marc for the info.  We'll be looking into the PC-NFS
and the software from FTP and see what we can come up with.  I also got
some mail from someone at Georgia Tech (Go Jackets!) who said that he'd
be able to get some more information to me soon.

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Ernest Campbell                    |      ATDEP: ATmospheric DEPosition
ATDEP@ducvax.auburn.edu            |       Ozone and Acid Rain studies
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