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From: conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: UPDATE: Mac as an X terminal over a serial line
Summary: MacX does not work over a Liaison connection?
Keywords: MacX Liaison serial network
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Date: 26 Apr 91 02:03:32 GMT
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In article <2813ba42.5400@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> mjohnson@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu (Mark S. Johnson) writes:
 ...
>The bottom line (based on several informative replies) is that the Mac
>CANNOT (yet) be used as an X terminal over a serial line under the
>MacOS.  One CAN use SLIP and MacX under A/UX, however.
 ...
>-- 
>Mark S. Johnson        mjohnson@stn9.me.calpoly.edu      (129.65.19.9)

     I apologize if I missed the first of this thread and am repeating things.
But I just have a simple related observation and question....
     I can get MacX running past a GatorBox no problem.  What I cannot yet do
is get MacX going through the same network when accessing it through Liaison.
I can telnet, tn3270, ftp, and read news fine, but I can't MacX....
     I am a bit puzzled why I can't make this go, as Liaison ought to make a
reasonably transparent network connection.  (I guess my question is sort of
about MacX over a serial line and sort of about MacX over a network connection.)
     Has anyone gotten this to work?
     If it shouldn't work, can anyone offer a GOOD explanation for why?  Does
it have something to do with some evil inside of the CTB?  Is it just some sort
of timing problem (I have V.32/V.42bis modems -- reasonably fast)?
     Just curious, and hoping for some insight....
     If this has already been explained, I would welcome a copy via e-mail....
     Thanks much in advance....

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