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From: schoch@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: MacX1.1
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Date: 1 May 91 21:48:26 GMT
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In article <1991Apr26.155930.22658@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, pjd2@po.CWRU.Edu (Pedro J. Diaz) writes:
|> 
|> Does anyone know how Mac X1.1 makes a connection to the client??

MacX uses rexec to run a command on a remote machine.  Rexecd is a
BSD program and as such was incorporated into SunOS.  Rexec works
much like rsh except that instead of reading .rhosts on the remote
machine, a username/password combination is sent to the remote machine.
It is likely that the System V machines does not have rexecd or, if you're
lucky, it's just not running.

If you're good with writing TCP servers on the System V machine, you
could port rexecd.  The source should be available from Berkeley.

	Steve