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Article #8839Re: DECWindows communications with a Mac
From: Margaret D. Gibbs
Date: Fri, 03 May 1991 15:37
Date: Fri, 03 May 1991 15:37
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In article <hoepfner.673275919@heawk1> hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) writes: #cmacaskl@gehenna (Chris McAskill) writes: # #>In article <1991Apr24.151351.16576@colorado.edu> fozzard@alumni.colorado.edu #>(Richard Fozzard) writes: # #>> > So, does anyone know of a comm program for the mac that runs dec windows. #>> #>> In reading the MacX manual, it talks about MacX being used with something #>> called DEC LanWORKS for Macintosh to run DECwindows. I have no experience #>> with it, though. # #>I thought that eXodus, White Pine's X server product, had DEC connectivity #>stuff so you could run DECwindows. Am I wrong? # #Yes you are wrong. DECwindows is a superset of Xwindows. # #In order to run DECwindows, you will need to run something that understands #DECwindows. I don't think that anything out there except DEC's own #LanWORKS does this. # #--Patrick Hoepfner #hoepfner@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov #NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Actually, I am running DECwindows using eXodus, so this is eminently possible.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!LL.MIT.EDU!gibbsm From: gibbsm@LL.MIT.EDU (Margaret D. Gibbs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: DECWindows communications with a Mac Message-ID: <9105031137.AA05961@LL.MIT.EDU> Date: 3 May 91 15:37:57 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 29