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- From: vicky@vds3k.digex.net (Vicky Staubly)
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- Subject: Re: how to "network" 2 (or more) amigas....
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 03:38:06 GMT
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- In article <Kimnach.465.000DE2A1@lerc.nasa.gov> Kimnach@lerc.nasa.gov (Greg L. Kimnach) writes:
- <snip>
- >
- > let me rephrase my previous post. what i'd like is a local area network and
- > run something akin to x-windows, so that i could use one amiga as a terminal
- > (control i/o and view) to an application running on another amiga. in the
- > long run what i hope to have is one amiga with a large monitor and a number of
- > other amigas without monitors (they do add up in price and require a lot of
- > space:-) ). the "remote" amigas may have hardware-dependent applications
- > (e.g., par, toaster, a dongled brilliance), but the application is run on that
- > machine, not on the "terminal" amiga. this must be possible!?:-)
-
- You can run programs on remote Amigas via AmiTCP and telnet (you run the
- telnet client on the machine with the keyboard and monitor, and the telnet
- daemon on the "blind" machine). However, that will only let you run programs
- that would run in a Shell window (and not _every_ one of those will work
- either). You can run X and that will allow you to run any X client software
- on the "blind" machine, but most GUI applications for the Amiga are not
- written as X clients, and so must be run "locally".
-
- However, one thing I can suggest is:
-
- 1) Using Parnet, there is a program that will inject the local Amiga's
- keystrokes and mouse events into the remote Amiga's Intuition queue.
-
- 2) A switchbox to select which Amiga is connected to a single monitor
- might complete that set-up.
-
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- Vicky Staubly Amiga 3000 owner staubly@access.digex.net
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