for Windows 95 and Windows NT
Basics
Positioning SCO XVision Eclipse is a leading PC X server designed to ensure the tight integration of Windows 95 and Windows NT with Solaris or indeed any UNIX system. SCO XVision Eclipse provides seamless access to character and X based UNIX applications via the PC X server and an array of powerful terminal emulators. Its subsystem approach ensures the user never need know they are using UNIX. Many organizations have adopted a client/server strategy within their overall IT plan. Historically, users have had X terminals to access their server based applications and PCs to provide access to personal productivity tools. SCO XVision Eclipse eliminates the need for both a PC and an X terminal on the desktop. SCO XVision Eclipse is the next generation of PC X server. It has been re-engineered to ensure 100% error-free installations and easy access to the UNIX server. It supports complementary ground breaking SCO technologies that no other PC X server vendor can offer (SCO Vision Resume and SCO SuperVision). Description SCO XVision Eclipse is a high-performance transparent PC X server. It delivers seamless integration between the Windows desktop and the UNIX server. It is designed to allow PC users access to mission critical X applications run from the UNIX server. It provides users a Windows 95 front end to the UNIX world. SCO XVision Eclipse provides many features to simplify the integration of Microsoft Windows with UNIX including:
How to use this Guide In the following sections, the features and advantages they bring are highlighted. To make this easier to negotiate, the following typographical conventions have been used:
1: Easy Installation and Application Startup During the installation of SCO XVision Eclipse, the wizard will guide you through the process. It will ask you whether you wish to test the network software and optimize the X server. The netcheck facility ensures that the TCP/IP stack installed on your PC is configured correctly. It performs all the various TCP/IP operations that SCO XVision Eclipse needs to be fully operational. If the network software is not configured correctly, netcheck will point the user at the error and detail probable causes. The graphics optimizer performs the most commonly used graphics operations using three different methods of drawing and timing each. The fastest method is remembered and is used to perform that specific operation in any future SCO XVision Eclipse session. You need only re-run the optimizer if you change the hardware on your system.
After installation is complete, the UNIX application starter wizard makes starting a client as simple as launching a local program from the desktop. The UNIX application starter wizard helps you build a connection to the UNIX machine. It will prompt for a host (notice that the hosts have been auto-discovered), an application (you can browse the UNIX file system as if it were the local machine), the nature of the application (X or character) and what you wish to call the resulting shortcut. Behind the scenes, the wizard is building a complex piece of UNIX syntax that is unfamiliar (if not a little frightening) to Windows users. After the wizard has finished guiding you through the process of creating a UNIX application, it will ask whether you wish to start the client now (if you do not start it now, you can do so by going to the Unix Programs option from your Start menu). The first time the client is started, a View Host Reply window will appear showing you what the UNIX host responded to the command the wizard created. If the client starts, you can check the option not to show the box for this application again. If the client does not start, an explanation will be given as to why within that window.
2: SCO Zones - Expand the mind of your monitor SCO Zones is a Windows 95 virtual desktop. It allows users to simplify their desktops and organize their workspace more efficiently. It gives easy navigation around the busy desktop via multiple screens where 'like' applications can be grouped. SCO Zones acts as a virtual desktop manager. Each Zone is a different logical screen to the user. It enables users to have multiple workspaces (and even multiple X servers running in each zone).
3: SCO Vision Resume SCO Vision Resume allows users to quickly suspend and resume sessions as they move around the internet/intranet without the need to shut down their session; they can simply resume the session from exactly the same point that they left it. |
SCO Vision Resume involves the use of a proxy X server on the UNIX machine. A demo version of this software is available with SCO XVision Eclipse. The proxy server acts as a server to the client application (e.g. xterm) and a client application to the server (i.e. SCO XVision Eclipse). In relaying the messages to the X server, it is possible for the proxy server to be disconnected from the physical X server, thus leaving the client session still running on the proxy. When the session is resumed, the proxy attaches to the SCO XVision Eclipse server and the session is displayed as it was left.
Apply these settings and click on the OK button. Start XVision and select the Resume profile. The server will start. From the Windows 95 task bar, select New Unix Program and use the wizard to start an application (typically the application could be an xterm or xlogo). Upon completion of the wizard, start the application. Once the session has started, it is now possible to suspend the session (either cleanly via the XVision menu, SCO Vision Resume option, or by simply closing down the XVision server). Start XVision again, using the Resume profile. The server will automatically reconnect to the resume host and the client applications will appear on screen. 4: Embed X clients within Web Documents SCO XVision Eclipse allows the embedding of X clients within web documents. This extends X to the corporate intranet enabling users to access mission critical applications from wherever they are on the corporate network. The SCO XVision Eclipse software stores each UNIX program entry in a .rps file on the PC. These are files that can be executed by the RPS.EXE file supplied with SCO XVision Eclipse. It is possible to embed the .rps files in web pages. Creating a MIME type of application, a subtype of rps with an associated program of c:\progra~1\vision\rps.exe from within Netscape's Options, General Preferences, Helpers enables Netscape to understand and act on remote applications. If a user has Netscape and SCO XVision Eclipse installed, together with the helper application configured, they can physically start the clients from within the intranet. Starting the rps program will read the .rps file for the host and application information. The host contained is then connected to using the user's own login and password ensuring complete system integrity and security. Rps discovers user-based data such as login and password (if configured) from the Vision Services.
5: Extensive Emulator Support SCO XVision Eclipse contains an array of powerful terminal emulators giving users access to legacy character applications in addition to their X applications. Emulators within the product are vt420 (and its subsets; vt320, vt200, vt100, vt52), wyse60 (and its subset wyse50) and SCO ansi. Users benefit from a local client in which to run their UNIX application, reducing the load on the server machine. Character applications historically have required the use of "dumb" terminals, or, in the X world, the use of an X based terminal emulator. Using an X based emulator such as xterm is a fairly heavyweight solution to the problem of using character based applications. Running local emulators cuts down the amount of network traffic (X is quite a network intensive protocol) and reduces the load on the UNIX server.
6: SCO SuperVision - Central Management SCO SuperVision is the System Management product for the whole Vision Family of Windows to UNIX integration products. It is a set of UNIX applications, servers and a Windows 95 management workbench that provide UNIX-centric system management tools for the administrator of populations of PCs. The management workbench follows the Windows philosophy, taking advantage of drag-and-drop and icons representing the SCO XVision Eclipse users. The system administrator creates a graphical model of the user community by configuring departmental or functional groups, so that management can be applied to individuals, departmental groups or all users in the enterprise. It is an add-on package that requires SCO XVision Eclipse, and requires that the XVision Eclipse host components be already installed. SCO SuperVision provides facilities for:
Supported Platforms Server:
For information on availability for other platforms and versions, visit the SCO Web Site at www.vision.sco.com. PC:
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