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- From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
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- Subject: Re: Using X over the modem???
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.123556.17654@sm.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 12:35:56 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 06:36:12 GMT
- Message-Id: <1992Nov10.063612.5941@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov8.200137.19985@newstand.syr.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov8.200137.19985@newstand.syr.edu>, jdlin@rodan.acs.syr.edu () writes:
-
- > I install Linux and Xfree386 on my machine. After I using the kermit
- > and modem to connect to a remote host, I try to execuate a remote X
- > application. But I always got the following error message:
-
- > window: Base frame not passed the parent window in environment.
- > Cannot create base frame. Process aborted.
-
- That sounds as though you're getting a SunView application rather than
- an X application. Check your path.
-
- However, fixing that won't help much, because kermit over a normal
- modem connection is not going to let you run X over it. You need
- connectivity at the network transport level appropriate to whatever the
- X applications are trying to use - which on a Sun is probably TCP, for
- which you'd need SLIP or PPP or some such on both your machine and the
- remote machine.
-
- There do exist protocols for running X over slow lines. One of them
- (XRemote) is, last I heard, being used as the basis for a Consortium
- effort to develop a standard for such things; I do not know what the
- current state of this effort is, but I'm fairly sure that it's
- currently bleeding-edge technology...and if you were ready to get into
- that can of worms, you wouldn't have needed to ask what you did.
-
- der Mouse
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