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- From: gruen@ipc1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de (Lutz Grueneberg)
- Subject: Re: OS2 TO SUN
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.220345.14731@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:03:45 GMT
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- In article <14761.1321.uupcb@compart.fi>, mike.walsh@compart.fi (Mike Walsh) writes:
- |> 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.
- Yes, the answer is the SLIP protocol. But pay attention: not all SLIP's
- can talk which each other. I've never tested SLIP between SUN's and
- OS/2 machines.
-
- |> 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 offers PMX, a X11-Server for their TCP/IP. The older releases I've
- seen could only use the PM as Window Manager. So no olwm and XNews for
- now.
-
- Lutz
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- // Lutz Gr"uneberg
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