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In article <1990Aug4.145827.7722@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> wpg@mendel.acc.Virginia.EDU (William P. Gardner) writes:
> 1.  Is it possible to have a workstation at a remote site that displays
>     multiple windows controlled by a program at the central site?
> 
> 2.  Is it possible to have one or more of those windows be shared among
>     two or more remote workstations?

Yes, both are possible with the X window system, since one of the goals of
the X design was network (in general, communication path) transparency.  To
see a demo of this sort of thing, try out wscrawl, a program which was
posted to the Usenet newsgroup comp.sources.x a few months ago, and is
available from the usual archives via anonymous ftp (I got it from
uunet.uu.net).

Wscrawl allows multiple users on multiple workstations (any one of which or
none of which might be the computer running the program) to share a window
in which they all can draw and type text.  When one user resizes the
window, it gets resized for all.  Etc.


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