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From: dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Re: Screen Slaver Program
Message-ID: <17030001@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 88 17:25:58 GMT
References: <2411@tekcrl.TEK.COM>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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>It exists, and is called "Timbuktu" (rather appropriately).
>I can tell you the publisher next week.  It's pretty powerful --
>allowing one Mac to observe everything happening on another
>including mouse movements, and even allows interaction -- two
>people working on the same Mac (one remotely).  It does not
>enslave more than one Mac at a time, alas.

Can you have more than one person (ie n macs observing what is going on 
on the target Mac? Does it work over appletalk, appleshare, ethertalk or
just 2 macs connected by modem? I have a situation where I might want to 
hook up 5 macs together and have 4 of them watching what the other one is
doing. In other words, we would like to do some collaborative work on our
project team, and members of our project team are distributed geographically.
We do have connection to each other potentially through our private TCP/IP
based Internet, so if Timbuktu could work in that environment it would be
extremely nice.

I do know that Timbuktu is from WOS data systems and is priced at $86 at 
Computerware.
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