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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Path: sparky!uunet!qualix!reason!rthau
- From: rthau@qualix.com (Rick Thau)
- Subject: Re: Timbuktu for Sun
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.160503.1810@qualix.com>
- Sender: usenet@qualix.com
- Reply-To: rthau@qualix.com
- Organization: QUALiX Group, Inc.
- References: <1992Jul27.000538.1045@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:05:03 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- We have a product called Communique, which allows you to do all the things requested,
- PLUS have voice over the net, and video (slow scan). It will do this for a group
- of participants, not just point to point.
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- For information contact info@qualix.com or call 800-245-UNIX.
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- rt
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- In article 1045@cbnewsi.cb.att.com, rhb@hotsand.cnet.att.com (Richard H. Brandwein +1 908 949 2135) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Jul24.215425.6373@meiko.com>, mike@meiko.com (Mike Stok) writes:
- >|> In article <1992Jul24.185911.28442@brtph560.bnr.ca> hawkins@bnr.ca (John Hawkins P730) writes:
- >|> >I know of a program on the Mac that allows one to share interactive
- >|> >graphical info over a LAN or modem connection. A given user can "draw"
- >|> >in a window on another user's screen, pointing and calling up
- >|> >drawings, text etc while chating on the phone.
- >|> >
- >|> >Question: Does anyone know of a sun version? an x-window version? even
- >|> > a PC version?
- >|>
- >|> I think shdr is an OpenLook (i.e. Sun flavour X) package like this.
- >|> You can get it from beta.xerox.com in /pub/europarc/shdr.tar.Z
- >
- >There is a program in the demo library of OW 3.0 called "chalk" which
- >seems (to me) to serve the same functionality as shdr. Chalk is an
- >interactive chalkboard; it works quite well, but it doesn't go nearly
- >as far as what Timbuktu seems to do.
- >
- >Since you can export your display (or portions thereof) to another
- >user with his permission, it wouldn't seem that hard to create
- >an integrator package to do something like Timbuktu. I'm sure that
- >people working on multimedia applications have betas of this for the
- >sun...
- >
- >
- >--
- >--
- > Rich Brandwein rich.brandwein@att.com
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