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- From: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
- Subject: Re: MGR (was Re: Are we dead??)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.155912.16846@rosevax.rosemount.com>
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- Reply-To: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
- Organization: Rosemount, Inc.
- References: <9211193298@umunk.GUN.de>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:59:12 GMT
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- udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:
- : H.C. Pulley (hcp@csx.cciw.ca) wrote:
- :
- : : I have not looked at the source for MGR yet, but since it has been ported to
- : : Minix386, I assume it doesn't need any sockets or TCP/IP?
- :
- : It doesn't use networking, the window manager and the application clients
- : must run one the same system.
- :
-
- It doesn't use networking, but it does uses pseudo-terminals, which
- are included in 4.0 (I wrote a pty driver for 3.2, but never quite got
- the last quirks out of it before 4.0 came out).
-
- However, you can run the clients on a different machine from the
- window manager. All of the graphics stuff (in both directions) is
- implemented as ASCII escape sequences in the stdin and stdout streams.
- This means that you can dial-up a remote computer and run an MGR
- client (albiet sluggishly). It also means that it's pretty simple to
- do graphics stuff in shell scripts (try that with X!).
-
- Anyway, I assume that the 3bX port (a sysV type system) would be an
- easier starting point than the SunOS/BSD port that I have played with.
-
- --
- Grant Edwards |Yow! Now I'm concentrating
- Rosemount Inc. |on a specific tank battle
- |toward the end of World War
- grante@aquarius.rosemount.com |II!
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