The YY server

The YY server is the program which connects to an X display from an application program (the client). It acts on the commands of the client, and conveys input to the display back to the client, after a filtering stage. Because it works over internet sockets, it can run on any machine on the local net, and so need not compete for CPU cycles with . can use any X windows display for its output as long as the machine running the server has permision to use that display. Thus up to three machines can be involved in the process of producing a picture. The server currently runs on sun-3 and sun-4 machines, and may have difficulty communicating with machines which use a different byte order.



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