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From: johnson@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Philip Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xtrek problem
Message-ID: <280003@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Oct 88 21:06:49 GMT
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Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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> But my machines don't seem to know when there is a player on the other
> machine.

Everybody playing in the same game must start a process on the same machine--
i.e., the xtrek daemon runs on only one machine:  everyone forks a remote shell
on the xtrek "server."  e.g.,
	rsh <hostmachine> /users/usr/games/xtrek $DISPLAY & 
The usual procedure is to use the fastest machine around as the xtrek server.

--Phil