Local process execution with MGR

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From: Alan Lundin
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 1990 11:16

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I've been considering how an implementation of something like a TeX dvi
previewer should be implemented in the MGR environment.  Presumably
it would be desirable for the fonts to reside locally so as to avoid
having to transfer large bitmaps from the remote side.  Since MGR doesn't
(yet :-) support METAFONT/dvi fonts directly, how would you efficiently
build such a bitmap and then display it?

On the surface at least, it seems that the ability to start an arbitary
process on the local side (from the client) would be useful.  In this
case if a program was known to be available on the local machine, the
client could then request of MGR to start a process and perhaps display
the results.  Any thoughts?

--Alan Lundin

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