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From: feit@cs.odu.edu (Mark Alan Feit)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: MS-DOS Server Port
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Date: 24 Feb 90 16:58:15 GMT
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Has anybody out there ported the X server to run under MS-DOS?  A few
people in the CS department have expressed an interest in being able
to run X on our suns from home without having to use SLIP or sign up
for an Internet number.

What I have in mind is a system which will sit up at the port for some
high display number (like 100), listen for connections, and handle
communications to/from the remote user by way of a normal dial-up
connection.  The whole operation would look something like this:

Client(s) <--Inet--> Dialup Interface <--Telco--> PC X Server <--> Display

From what I have read in O'Reilly Volume 0 and what I've done in my
own work, it looks quite possible to do...  I just don't want to
reinvent the wheel.

Any thoughts?
						- Mark