From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 20 18:19:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA18272 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 18:19:09 -0700 Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA18263 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 18:19:07 -0700 Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R2.01/dg-rtp-v02) id AA27188; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 21:18:22 -0400 Received: from lakes (lakes [192.96.3.39]) by ponds.UUCP (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id VAA16295; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 21:00:24 -0400 Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes (8.6.9/8.6.9) id VAA08951; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 21:14:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 21:14:11 -0400 From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199504210114.VAA08951@lakes> To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, kaleb@x.org Subject: Re: X11 protocol compressor. Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > 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! :-) > > > > > > You're probably thinking of SXPC, look at > > ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/sxpc-1.4.shar.Z > > -- > > Kaleb > I know this is probably ancient news by now; but I'd like to add that I've been in contact with the author of sxpc since some earlier versions. He's made the changes I suggested, and I have been very happy with it's performance on my FreeBSD 2.0 systems for some time. Version 1.4 has all the changes I sent him. There is one problem; sxpc tries to bind to a file in /tmp which usually isn't there - so you get a little perror() message.. It's completely safe to ignore the message... - Dave R. -