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marks@agcsun.UUCP (Mark Shepherd) writes:

   Hi. Does anyone know of a software product that will allow several
   users at several locations on several types of workstations (Suns 
   Macs and PCs) to all contribute text and graphics to a common window
   in real-time.
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   - several shared X-window implementations (to my knowledge, these 
     are experiments rather than actual products)

Yes, unfortunately, those kinds of things are still laboratory
curiosities.  I am working on one of them, and I've had so much
success with the prototype that I'm going to expand it into an
application.  Hopefully, it will be ready for release to the general
public by the end of the year.  Requirements will probably be along
these lines:

	Any architecture/OS combination capable of running X and
		compiling C.
	X11R3 or later
	TCP/IP
	10 M-Bit Ethernet (works better with a fibernet, though)

If you're still interested, drop me your e-mail address and I'll keep
you posted.

   but what I want is a product that will work on several different
   kinds of machine at the same time.

All of the X packages that I know of will fill that last requirement
since the X server and its protocol are portable.

 The product should work over
   standard dial-up modems (at least when there's only two stations).

Actually, the dial-up thing is a separate problem which can be solved
by installing SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol, available by
anonymous FTP from uunet.uu.net, among other places) on the system(s)
in question and you'll be able to run an X server on one end and
clients elsewhere.


						- Mark

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						- Mark

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: Mark A. Feit                     : feit@cs.odu.edu                  :
: Old Dominion University CS Dept. : feit@xanth.UUCP                  :
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