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From: jcarson@WILKINS.BCM.TMC.EDU (Janet L. Carson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X-terminals & xinit
Message-ID: <9002132000.AA08677@wilkins.bcm.tmc.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 90 20:00:20 GMT
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>If you want a nice way to allow your X terminals to get started, plus
>provide automatic shutdown when the terminal is powered off, you
>need XDMCP.

The two problems we've been talking about: the need for the user to
pick one of several machines to log into, and the need to shutdown all 
clients, regardless of where they are really running, are not currently 
solved by XDMCP.  (At least this was the impression that I got at the X 
conference last month...)

--Janet

Janet L. Carson                               internet: jcarson@bcm.tmc.edu 
Baylor College of Medicine              uucp: {rutgers,mailrus}!bcm!jcarson