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From: gibbsm@LL.MIT.EDU (Margaret D. Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: DECWindows communications with a Mac
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Date: 3 May 91 15:37:57 GMT
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In article <hoepfner.673275919@heawk1> hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov 
(Patrick Hoepfner) writes:

#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 

Actually, I am running DECwindows using eXodus, so this is eminently possible.