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- From: muegel@rtsg.mot.com (Michael S. Muegel)
- Subject: Re: send_alarm for X?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.053604.13766@rtsg.mot.com>
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- Organization: Corporate Computer Services & Support, Motorola, Inc.
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 05:36:04 GMT
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- Previously, gordonb@mcil.comm.mot.com (Gordon Berkley) wrote:
- >Now that I am using X, however, I don't *SEE* my DM window, so I don't
- >get my alarms.
- >
- >Is there a similar function/utility available for X?
-
- Get the Project Athena Zephyr system. From the zephyr manual page:
-
- Zephyr is a notice transport and delivery system developed at MIT
- which runs under 4.3BSD Unix.
-
- A Notice Transport and Delivery system is a method of getting small
- quantities of time sensitive information efficiently from one client
- (or server) on a network to another. The object is to accomplish this
- with the highest possible fan-out (i.e., client to server ratio) while
- maintaining both network and server performance. Zephyr is a multi-
- cast notice transport and delivery system based upon an authenticated
- datagram protocol. Localized Zephyr servers provide routing, queueing
- and dispatching services to clients which communicate with them via
- the Zephyr Client Library. Two special purpose Zephyr clients, the
- WindowGram client and the HostManager client provide user and client
- host communication support.
-
- many clients sit on top of the basic transport system. Zwrite is one of them.
- It gives you stuff you are used to in alarms. Nice thing about Zephyr,
- though, is that it works on many different UNIX platforms. Zwrite
- can work both with X stations and ASCII terminals.
-
- I think I got the source somewhere at mit. Archie could probably say
- for sure.
-
- -Mike
-
- --
- -Michael S. Muegel <mmuegel@mot.com>
- UNIX Applications Startup Group
- Corporate Computer Services and Support
- Motorola, Inc.
-