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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Network transparent server?
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Date: 23 Jan 89 17:16:26 GMT
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In-reply-to: heiser@iis.UUCP's message of 20 Jan 89 21:06:05 GMT

In article <742@jupiter.iis.UUCP> heiser@iis.UUCP (Gernot Heiser) writes:
   Does anybody know of a way to connect to a remote emacs server?

emacsclient uses UNIX-domain sockets (as socket(AF_UNIX,...)), not
TCP-domain sockets.  It doesn't matter if your home directories are
the same on both machines, because that socket only *looks* like a
file in ~.