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In article <4gk4gt$opg@gidora.kralizec.net.au>,
	Carl Renneberg <renneber@tmx.mhs.oz.au> writes:
>I have a Linux system at home, which I'd like to connect to an OS/2
>system at work over a dial-up link.

No problem. PPP (or SLIP) will do that for you.


>I'll be using the OS/2 PC mainly for engineering use (PCB drafting,
>electronics design, some software development). Much of the
>engineering software will be DOS- and Win3.1-based. But I'd
>also like to take advantage of the applications I have running
>under Linux.

Text-based apps will run fine over telnet, at the very least.
OS/2's telnet vt220 is usable, albiet with a few quirks that
can be worked around.


>Ideally, I'd like to be able to do the following:
>
>    - dial up my home system from the OS/2 machine, and use the graphical
>      (X windows) and non-graphical applications on my Linux machine;

With X apps, you may be in luck. There is shortly to be released a
port of XFree 3.1.2 to OS/2. Here's a http reference you might find
interesting:

   http://borneo.gmd.de/~veit/os2/xf86os2.html

There is another implementation of X for OS/2 which sits on top of
PM (the abovementioned one does not - it runs in its own fullscreen
session independantly of Presentation Manager) available from IBM,
but that costs $I$B$M$s.


>    - dial up the OS/2 system from home, and use the graphical and
>      non-graphical applications on the OS/2 system.

You'll need to do it the other way. OS/2 does not have a slip/ppp
server. Fortunately, it is easy enough to do with a script, or
you can use something like Os2You to call in from remote and have
the os2 initiate the ppp connection.


>On my Linux machine I have X, ppp, cslip, and BIND working. I know next
>to nothing about OS/2.

You'll need OS/2 tcpip, a usable subset of which comes with the Warp
Bonus Pack.


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