Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!uunet!brunix!doorknob!wsd From: wsd@cs.brown.edu (Wm. Scott `Spot' Draves) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: -host option (was Re: NeXT alternatives) Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 89 18:11:42 GMT References: <12192@reed.UUCP> <245300010@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <688@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> <41358@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <8277@polya.Stanford.EDU> <4683@umd5.umd.edu> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Distribution: usa Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 24 In-reply-to: feldman@umd5.umd.edu's message of 10 Apr 89 14:54:42 GMT In article <4683@umd5.umd.edu> feldman@umd5.umd.edu (Mark Feldman) writes: In article <8277@polya.Stanford.EDU> aozer@NeXT.com writes: ... > >You can run an application on one NextStep machine and have the windows >appear on another simply by specifying the destination host with "-host". > >Ali Ozer Under 0.8, the -host option is not well documented. I scanned through the tech refs and didn't see it. If it is documented, it certainly doesn't stand out. Not only is the use of this option undocumented, but how to write a program that does this yourself is also undocumented. Any clue how to do this? Scott - - - - - - - - - - Scott Draves | Space... The Final Frontier wsd@cs.brown.edu | uunet!brunix!wsd wsd@browncs.bitnet Box 2555 Brown U Prov RI 02912