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Date:      Thu, 23 Mar 1995 11:00:16 +0100 (MET)
From:      Marino.Ladavac@aut.alcatel.at (Marino Ladavac)
To:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: X11 protocol compressor.
Message-ID:  <9503231001.AA21111@aut.alcatel.at>
In-Reply-To: <11468.795897409@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 22, 95 10:36:49 am

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Jordan wrote:
> 
> > Contrib on ftp.x.org.  Or try NCD (Network Computing Devices).  The LBX
> > (Low Bandwidth X) was developed by Mike(?) @ NCD and given to the X
> > people for inclusion.  They wanted to modify it somewhat before the
> > released it.  I believe the NCD code is out there under the name XRemote.
> 
> Uh, no.  I know about LBX and it's not what I'm looking for.  I'm
> looking for something that SPOOFS as a server and does very simplistic
> yet effective compression schemes on the datastream.  It's much easier
> to use across different server and client environments (neither server
> nor client need ever know) and it's a lot less reading than the LBX
> documentation! :-)
> 
> 
> 						Jordan
> 
You might take a look at the Term suite which multiplexes TCP and UDP
over single serial line.  There is txconn (basically a socket redirector)
which listens on the socket 6000+ (client side X server sockets :) and sends 
stuff to
the other end, to socket 6001 (you rlocal server.)  Term does compression,
and will work over any streamed connection (i.e. TCP, SLIP, PPP, whatever,)
not only serial lines.

To the X client it seems as if it were connected to localhost:X, where X is
9 by default.

I have used it over 14.4 kbps line and xarchie was reasonably fast (i.e. it
almost walked, if you don't mind 3 to 5 seconds for start and 1 second
redraws :)

/Alby



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