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- From: jerry@arlut.utexas.edu (Jerry Heyman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: AmiWin and Netscape
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 23:55:17 GMT
- Organization: UT Applied Research Laboratories
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- CS Wagner (kainaw@cris.com) wrote:
- : I think I'm preparing myself for another headache...
-
- : I happened to see someone mention running Netscape on AmiWin. I can install
- : AmiWIn without problems if need be, but what's this about Netscape. AmiWin is
- : an X11 emulatoer according to the docs. Does this mean it can actually run the
- : programs on the Amiga or it can display a program running on a separate
- : machine? If the Amiga can run the program, what version of Netscape is needed?
-
- Actually AmiWin is an X11 server written for the Amiga. It run native -
- meaning that you don't need to switch operating systems to run it. Having
- said that, you need to understand exactly what an X11 server is.
-
- In the X11 nomenclature, an X11 server is the software part that does the
- display control. A client is the application that sends display information
- to a server so that the user can actually see what is being done.
-
- Having said this, Netscape is a client application. That means in order
- to see it on AmiWin, you will have to run it on another machine and then
- redirect (via the -display option) the output to the X11 server that you
- wish to use - in this case AmiWin.
-
- Example:
-
- I start AmiWin on my A3000 (via the 'startx' command)
- I give other machines the ability to write to my server (via 'xhost +')
- I then log into a Unix machine on my network
- On the Unix machine I issue the following command -
-
- $ netscape -display heyman:0.0 &
-
- This tells the Unix box to run the netscape executable, but to direct all
- the output to the X11 server known as heyman:0.
-
- While somewhat cryptic, I hope its a little bit clearer.
-
- : -Kainaw
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