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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS2 TO SUN
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.192949.21027@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 19:29:49 GMT
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- In article <14761.1321.uupcb@compart.fi> mike.walsh@compart.fi (Mike Walsh) writes:
- >Thanks to all those who send me replies or mail on my question of
- >how to connect OS/2 workstations to SUN machines.
- >The answer appears to be IBM's TCP/IP for OS/2 although one person
- >(who hadn't used it) also suggested FTP's equivalent product.
- >.
- >Now for the follow-up:
- >We need probably to do this connection to a remote SUN. I get the
- >impressions TCP/IP can handle this, is this true and are there
- >any problems with remote connection.
- >One question that comes to mind is will we need some form of
- >X-Windows emulation on the OS/2 side ? Answers to this and any questions
- >I've not posed gratefully accepted.
-
- IBM's TCP/IP package includes an X server. So you'd set your DISPLAY
- environment variable to point to your IP address (that you installed
- OS/2 TCP/IP with), and X apps will run, with their output on your
- desktop.
-
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