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- From: francis@ese.ogi.edu (Francis Moraes)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
- Subject: Re: remote access to Win/OS2 applications possible?
- Message-ID: <48048@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 15:29:09 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ogicse.48048
- References: <dan.724771856@dribble>
- Sender: news@ogicse.ogi.edu
- Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute - Department of Env. Science and Eng.
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- dan@dribble.c-mols.siu.edu (Dan Ellison) writes:
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- >Hi all. I am just starting to work a little with OS/2's TCP/IP
- >stack. I am wondering if it is possible to access an OS/2 server
- >from an Xwindows server and run Win/OS2 applications displaying on
- >the remote X-server's display? Has anyone done this? Anyone
- >know if it can be done? Anyone done it? Any other questions B^)
-
- Now, to answer the original question. No, you probably can't do it, at
- least not without doing some programming. Desqview/X does this by converting
- MS-Windows requests into X-requests and sending them over the net to
- another X server. For MS-Windows programs this is said to be painfully
- _slow_ under DV/X (this is not to put DV/X down, I believe it would be
- slow regardless). I don't generally think you would want to do this
- but if you really do you can now get DV/X (complete with networkings, but
- not the ethernet card of course) for $200.
-
- Followups to Comp.os.desqview
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- Note: I think OS/2 is better, but DV/X is great if you need what it does.
-
- Francis Moraes
-