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From: karrer@bernina.ethz.ch (Andreas Karrer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Decnet-tcp/ip gateway.
Message-ID: <1991May29.175051.27421@bernina.ethz.ch>
Date: 29 May 91 17:50:51 GMT
References: <1991May29.151258.19842@augean.ua.OZ.AU>
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
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idall@augean.ua.oz.au (Ian Dall) writes:

>We have a zillion Vaxes and one lonely DecStation. The DecStation has
>Decnet and the decnet-tcp/ip gateway software (as well, of course as
>tcp-ip). We also have some tcp-ip only X terminals.

>What we want to be able to do is run DecWindows clients on the VMS
>machines and have them use the X server on the X terminals. Is this
>possible?

Yes. On the DecStation, look into /usr/examples/decnet/gatethru.
The gatewayd translates X-protocol-on-TCP-transport to X-protocol-
on-DECnet-transport.

I don't think it's "supported", though.

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  Andi Karrer, Communication Systems, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
  karrer@bernina.ethz.ch                 - terible simplifieur