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Date:      Thu, 3 Dec 1998 10:45:16 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jean-Marc Beaudoin <jmb@merlin.vipxlnet.com>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
Cc:        Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>, Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net>, Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: About X-Windows client
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981203103950.259B-100000@merlin.vipxlnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <3666AAAF.C6269553@uk.radan.com>

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Good day,

Thank you for all the informations.

MI/X works very fine. It is straight forward and simple to use.

I would not use RSH or REXEC for security issues so, for now, I simply
open a telnet session on the FreeBSD box and call a predefined alias in my
.cshrc file to set the x connection.

As far as Winblows, I agree. But untill someone forces uncle Bill to lease
the rights of his products (Office, etc...) to be available on other
platforms I must do my administrative stuff either on a Windows 95 or
Windows NT (Neandertal Technology) station.

I still do prefer real O/S such as OpenVMS and Unix (FreeBSD).


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jean-Marc Beaudoin
Analyste technique
V.I.P. ExcelNet Inc.
jmbeaudoin@vipxlnet.com
jmb@merlin.vipxlnet.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Mark Ovens wrote:

> Scott Mitchell wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 09:22:59AM -0500, Pat Lynch wrote:
> > > HUmmingbird and the like used to do it with rsh/rlogin. -P
> > >
> > > ___________________________________________________________________________
> > >
> > > Pat Lynch                                             lynch@rush.net
> > > Systems Administrator                                 Rush Networking
> > >
> > > ___________________________________________________________________________
> > >
> > > On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Patrick Gardella wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've not seen a script such as that.  I would think that if Microimages knew of
> > > > one, they would ship it with MI/X.  But others may know how to do it.  I try to
> > > > avoid the windows world as much as possible.  :)
> > > >
> > > > Patrick
> > > >
> > 
> > I've used xrsh and xrlogin to do this for years now.  Of course, they won't
> > work on Winblows unless you happen to have sh, rsh and numerous other
> > things there as well.  If you can find a windows rsh client that will let
> > you pass environment variables across, it ought to be possible.
> > 
> 
> http://www.winfiles.com
> 
> and search for rshrcp32 or rcprsh32. I'm not sure of the exact name as
> I'm not at home. There are 2 parts. An rsh daemon and the
> rcp/rsh/rexec programs.
> 
> 
> > xrsh/xrlogin can be found at (amongst other places):
> > 
> > ftp://sunsite.org.uk/Mirrors/ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/xrsh-5.8.shar.gz
> > 
> > HTH,
> > 
> >         Scott.
> > 
> > --
> > ===========================================================================
> > Scott Mitchell          | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just
> > <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>   | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat"
> > QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B |     -- J. S. Bach.
> > 
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> -- 
>   Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It
>   was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place.
> 
> Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd.
> Bath, Avon, England.  Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions
> mailto:marko@uk.radan.com    http://www.radan.com
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