Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!asuvax!ukma!dftsrv!heawk1!hoepfner From: hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: DECwindows communications with a Mac Message-ID: Date: 3 May 91 13:05:19 GMT References: <1991Apr24.151351.16576@colorado.edu> <583@rosie.NeXT.COM> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Lines: 23 cmacaskl@gehenna (Chris McAskill) writes: >In article <1991Apr24.151351.16576@colorado.edu> fozzard@alumni.colorado.edu >(Richard Fozzard) writes: >> > So, does anyone know of a comm program for the mac that runs dec windows. >> >> In reading the MacX manual, it talks about MacX being used with something >> called DEC LanWORKS for Macintosh to run DECwindows. I have no experience >> with it, though. >I thought that eXodus, White Pine's X server product, had DEC connectivity >stuff so you could run DECwindows. Am I wrong? Yes you are wrong. DECwindows is a superset of Xwindows. In order to run DECwindows, you will need to run something that understands DECwindows. I don't think that anything out there except DEC's own LanWORKS does this. --Patrick Hoepfner hoepfner@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center