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From: humphrey@hightop.nrl.navy.mil (Jeff Humphrey [Jeffus])
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: xnet (X-Net 1.1)
Date: 8 Jan 93 00:43:42 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Computer Security, Naval Research Lab

Date: 7 Jan 93 21:57:34 GMT
Message-Id: <C0I7ny.5q0@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,alt.security,comp.unix.wizards


  xnet (X-Net Version 1.1) is a simple X-Windows that maps the route
  taken by packets to specified sites.  Based on the low ttl idea
  presented by Van Jacobson in his program 'traceroute'.  Tested on
  color and b/w SparcStation(s) running 4.1.1 and 4.1.2 ...

  Questions/Comments/Bugs to (xnet@hightop.nrl.navy.mil)

  anonymous at hightop.nrl.navy.mil (/nrl/xnet.tar.Z)

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From: khuhner@eng.auburn.edu (Kurt E. Huhner)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: XAPPLRESDIR
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:21:21 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Auburn University Engineering

Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:46:53 GMT
Message-Id: <khuhner.930108094653@willow.cse.eng.auburn.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.open-look

In article <1355@pivot-sts.sbi.com> ray@rann.sbi.com writes:
>Hi All
>  I'm trying to get my resource file via the XAPPLRESDIR environment variable and am not having much luck. Based on info in the OSF/Motif programmer's guide, I believe that I can use this var as follows
>  "setenv XAPPLRESDIR = $APPLHOME/etc"
>register my appl class as "XTimesheet"
>  and then put my defaults file in...
>  "$APPLHOME/etc/XTimesheet"
> and the user can override these defaults by putting THEIR preferences in
>  "~/XTimesheet"
>I can't get this to work (!!!%@$!%^@) (BTW -The LANG var is not set). Can anyone either explain or point me to the proper usage. I'm currently using $XENVIRONMENT to point to me defaults but that doesn't let the user override easily.

   Set the XAPPLRESDIR to ./  This says look in the current directory BUT the
current directory must be the SAME NAME as the application!!

>  Thanks
>---Raymond
From: vladd@ups.com (Vladimir Dimanshteyn CONSULTANT)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Pixmap Editor for X
Date: 8 Jan 93 02:11:43 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: UPS Research and Development

Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:00:01 GMT
Message-Id: <1993Jan7.210001.14942@ups.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu
From: josephkwok@hgrd01.enet.dec.com ("KWOK Wai Ting, Joseph 08-Jan-1993 1811")
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Public domain ISO10646 fonts
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:37:38 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Message-Id: <9301081010.AA13287@enet-gw.pa.dec.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 02:11:05 PST
Apparently-To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu

I would like to know are there any public domain ISO10646 fonts available?
If yes, where can I get a copy of it (them)?

Thanks,
Joseph
From: opus@hydra.unm.edu (Colby Kraybill)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Possible bug with XtCreateWidget()?
Date: 12 Jan 93 11:46:09 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Date: 12 Jan 93 10:21:16 GMT
Message-Id: <1iu62sINN870@lynx.unm.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


I have been trying to get an application going which works under the
khoros signal/image processing software.  I've pretty much eleminated
the possibility that the error is in the khoros stuff.

Anyways, there is a library routine under khoros which makes a call to
XtCreateManagedWidget().  I traced through the source code of that call
and then came upon XtCreateWidget().  The error is this :

signal BUS (alignment error) in Get_GC at 0x60ecc
Get_GC+0x14:    ld      [%o0 + 4], %o0

I've yet to find 'Get_GC' in my X11R5 sources, but I am still looking.
However, instead of having to recompile some of those sources with a -g
option.  I'd like to find out if anyone out there has encountered something
like this and has some sortof fix, or atleast a reason why this is happening.

The values which are being passed to XtCreateWidget are fine, they are :

widget = XtCreateWidget(name, widget_class, parent, args, num_args);

name : "Glyph"
widget_class is commandWidgetClass
parent is a valid 'toplevel' window
args has all nine values which num_args says there should be.

Ideas?


--
Colby Kraybill
Department of Physics and Astronomy - Computer Geek Extrodenaire
opus@astro.unm.edu


-- 
Colby Kraybill
Department of Physics and Astronomy - Computer Geek Extrodenaire
opus@astro.unm.edu
From: sjr@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Simon Rodger)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Problem using monochrome animation on a colour terminal
Date: 6 Jan 93 10:14:26 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia

Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 07:44:05 GMT
Message-Id: <9300618.27443@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


Hi,

I am busy writing an X application that uses animation. I use
the GXxor function to avoid messy intersections and erasure. All
is well on my Sun but when I use another monochrome terminal
I discovered that the BlackPixel and Whitepixel indexes were
reversed. This I managed to solve using GXequiv. The real problem
is colour work stations. I have neither managed to define the window 
as a monochrome window nor somehow exclude all colour index values. 

I would appreciate any advise that could be given on the topic. 

Simon Rodger
From: roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Xpaint 2.0 compile error
Date: 10 Jan 93 14:19:29 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: QUAD Systems

Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:58:24 GMT
Message-Id: <C0MotC.GEI@quadsys.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Just downloaded and tried to compile xpaint 2.0 (have had xpaint 1.0
for a while) and I get:

Operation.c: In function `okLineCallback':
Operation.c:90: `XtNleftBitmap' undeclared (first use this function) 
Operation.c:90: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once 
Operation.c:90: for each function it appears in.) 
Operation.c: In function `lineWidth':
Operation.c:109: `XtNleftBitmap' undeclared (first use this function) 
.
.
.


Anyone else seen this?
-- 

Roland Besserer
QUAD Systems
roland@quadsys.com
From: jsixt@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Johannes Sixt)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: timers
Date: 12 Jan 93 19:14:32 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: RISC, J.K. University of Linz, Austria

Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:55:05 CET
Message-Id: <19930112.175505208029.NETNEWS@ALIJKU11>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <1993Jan11.172359.9320@ods.com>, chris@ods.com (Chris Atkins) writes:
> Gary Lasseter (lasseter@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov) wrote:
>
> : I'm working on a real-time telemetry display application supporting NASA/MSFC.  I'm looking for information regarding the most
>

I do not know what this is. Let's assume it's some sort of animation. I.e.
graphics output is necessary.
>
> Gary,
>   You are correct about the Xt timers not being extremely accurate.  I believe
> the correct questions are:
> 1)How can you get accurate timers in a non realtime environment(I assume you arerunning in a unix environment)?  You can't.
> 2)Assuming you could find a solution to 1, how can you get this to work in the
> Xt environment?

Try the following:
Seperate your program into 2 programs, one for managing the graphical user
interface (using Xt/Motif), the other does the accurate timing and the animation.

More accurately:
     1. When the GUI starts up it realizes a large Widget of some class
	(DrawingArea or Core, for example) where the graphics shall go. It
	puts the XID of its window in some root window property, which can be
	fetched by other applications.

     2. Then the GUI forks, execing the animation program. The animation
	program opens a display connection and fetches the XID of the window
	which it shall paint to from the root window property.

Communication between the programs can be done with pipes, XtAppAddInput() (in the
GUI), and select() (in the animation program). Of course, you can tell the XID
of the drawing window to the animation program through these pipes.

If the thing you mention is some sort of real time control it gets easier because
you need not tell the XID of the window to the control program but you only need
the communications part. You still do forking and execing.

-- Hannes
From: main@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (John Main)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: colormaps
Date: 7 Jan 93 21:26:31 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: NASA/MSFC

Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:14:50 GMT
Message-Id: <1993Jan7.191450.6131@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Hello,

I have various gifs I like to put in my background, but when I try to load many
of them using xloadimage, I get an error - some crap about not being able to
change the default colormap - and no new picture.  I got around this by ftp'ing
xv.  I can now load these pictures in the background, but then all of my
applications that I pull up after that scream about not being able to allocate
colors.  I guess my question is:  how do I load an image into the background
without changing the default colormap.

I am using a SPARCstation 2, using X11R5.  Also using xdm (not by choice!).


			Thanks,
			I (now, more than ever) Hate Bama
			(main@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov)
From: CFRAZIER@hdsc.ssc.af.mil (C | C Code | C Code Run, please!)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: pixmaps
Date: 4 Jan 93 14:18:23 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date:    Mon, 4 Jan 1993 7:25:42 -0600 (CST)
Message-Id: <930104072542.2ae0f454@hdsc.ssc.af.mil>
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From: CFRAZIER@hdsc.ssc.af.mil (C | C Code | C Code Run, please!)
Subject: scaling bitmaps
To: xpert@Athena.MIT.EDU
Message-id: <921214121603.2a803d19@hdsc.ssc.af.mil>
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I wanted to know if there is a way to scale down pixmaps.
From: leilas@ems.cdc.com (Leila Schneberger)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Font is NULL in the dialog box
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:36:06 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of Ceridian

Date: 4 Jan 93 14:49:17 GMT
Message-Id: <31375@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I'm on AIX 3.2 and trying to get a Oracle Case*Designer to run. (We have it
running on an HP already) I had to install some Oracle-specific fonts. Once
they're added to my font path I can use them to open new windows. 
The problem is that when I try to run the Oracle product I get the error
"Font is NULL in the dialog box." This is obviously not an Oracle error.
How can I find out what is causing the problem?

Thanks!
-- 

 Leila Schneberger                 leilas@ems.cdc.com
From: todd@fred.dfrf.nasa.gov (Todd Vernon)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Basic help with XSendEvent
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:53:41 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: NASA Dryden

Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:35:20 GMT
Message-Id: <1993Jan12.163520.4961@news.dfrf.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x



Could you send me the answer also ?

todd@fred.dfrf.nasa.gov
From: allan@jade.ab.ca (Jeff Allan)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Motif libraries for MS-Windows or OS/2
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:20:45 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Jade Simulations International, Inc.

Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:41:20 GMT
Message-Id: <1993Jan5.234120.15102@jade.ab.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Does there exist a set of libraies for motif, xt, and xlib which will compile
a Motif program that can be run under MS-Windows, or OS/2 Presentation Manager?

We are developing applications which must run both on X and on either or both 
non-Unix PC window systems. We are using Motif because our primary development
and target platforms are Unix workstations (Sparc, HP9000, RS6000).
If possible we would like to use one of the X/Motif GUI builder tools such as
UIM/X or TeleUse which produce Motif/C as output.

We are also considering non-X-based cross-platform GUI development systems but
would prefer to support the Motif look and feel if possible.

Please email your replies and I will summarize to the net.


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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Product Manager				Third Floor, 1422 Kensington Road N.W.
					Calgary, Alberta, CANADA  T2N 3P9
From: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael!)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Best WM? Vote for ctwm, plus good .ctwmrc file
Date: 10 Jan 93 02:54:40 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Magic Michael's Mushroom Factory.

Date: 9 Jan 93 19:07:35 GMT
Message-Id: <7146@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <MUTS.93Jan7141241@PMCS.estec.esa.nl>, muts@estec.esa.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes:
|> >>On Mon, 4 Jan 93 11:35:19 GMT, sinkwitz@ifi.unizh.ch (Rainer Sinkwitz) said:
|> 
|>   Rainer> One vote for olvwm, you get the virtual screens and much
|>   Rainer> more, and it's free !!!
|> 
|> One vote against olvwm. It is open look. (typing this on a SUN with
|> ^&*%#$ open look completely removed; I use plain X11R5 instead). Use
|> ctwm, it is like twm, thus completely customizable (the standard
|> customization is not very nice) but offers virtual screens as well. I
|> shall append my .ctwmrc file, which is quite nice:
|> 
|>  

 **example removed**

|> --
|> _________________________________________________________________________
|> Peter Mutsaers.         |================================================ 
|> muts@pmcs.estec.esa.nl  |        Quod licet bovi, non licet Jovi



I also love ctwm; but Peter's example .ctwmrc file didn't include an
example of another nice feature - the ability to place a new window
(or whatever) in a predetermined workspace. Here's what the man page
says:

Occupy { occupy-list }
         This  variable  specifies  which  window  occupy   which
         workspace at startup.

         Where occupy-list is a list entries of the form :

                   [Window]   win-name { wpsc1 wspc2 ... }
              or   Workspace  wspc-name {win1 win2 ... }

         Example :

              Occupy {
                             "xload"   {"all"}
                  Window     "xterm"   {"here" "there" "elsewhere"}
                             "xv"      {"images"}
                  WorkSpace  "images"  {"xloadimage"}
              }


BUT note that it doesn't matter when the window is called.




There is also a mapform for ctwm (shows map of all windows on all workspaces and
allows user to use mouse to manage these windows - simple to move windows from one
w'space to another and (of wanted) to warp cursor there)

Michael
From: thomas@ritcsh.csh.rit.edu (Thom)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: INFO-MAC Fonts
Date: 6 Jan 93 01:39:28 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Computer Science House @ RIT

Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:28:13 GMT
Message-Id: <1993Jan5.192813.8778@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I need to get the "chicago-18" font.  I was told that it was 
on the INFO-MAC archives on sumex-aim.stanford.edu, but that
service is closed off.  Does anyone konw of any mirrors, or
any other sites that may have it?

Thanks

-thom
-- 
Thom Craver             |  "Never regret things you've done.  
thomas@nick.csh.rit.edu |   Rather save your regrets for the things
trc6398@ritvax.rit.edu	|   you haven't done."
From: shibuya@bl.applicon.slb.com (Hiroto Shibuya)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: VT2XX emulator on HP?
Date: 9 Jan 93 08:12:45 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Applicon; Billerica, MA (USA)

Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:11:01 GMT
Message-Id: <SHIBUYA.93Jan8171101@chute.bl.applicon.slb.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps

Oh by the way, I found the following entry in c.w.x FAQ.

> Century Software (801-268-3088) sells a VT220 terminal emulator for X. 
> VT102, Wyse 50 and SCO Color Console emulation are also available. 

I called them up and asked if it runs on HP workstations.  Following
is the bizzar conversation I had with them. (not exact wording, but I
think it is close enough.)

Century> We run on HP but it doesn't run on X.

I thought he meant that they only support the window system on Domain
OS, (which I thought is not X, but I don't really know).

me> You mean you support only Domain OS and not HP-UX?

Century>  No we run on HP-UX, but we don't run on X

me>  ???? Aaaaaa, isn't X the only window system run on HP-UX?

Century> Well, we run on HP-UX operating system, but we don't run on
        "X window operating system". (this part I'm sure that what
	this guy really said)

me> ?????????? weeeelll, isn't X just window system running on HP-UX?

Century> No they are separate things.  It is like DOS and Windows.
        Windows is operating system and they are separate things.

  	For example on Sun, we have two separate products, one for
	SunOS, and one for Sun window system.

me> ?????????????????????? weeellll, I think you don't have what
    I want. Good bye.

????????????????

---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*-------
       
I'm no native in this country, but it was the most foreign
conversation I ever had.  Could anybody make any sense out of this for
me please?  What a heck is terminal emulator which runs on HP-UX but
not on X????  
--
					Hiroto Shibuya
			
					Applicon Inc.
					Billerica, MA
					U.S.A.
From: naftaly@supergas.dazixco.ingr.com (Naftaly Stramer)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: X-Server not releasing memory
Date: 9 Jan 93 07:38:36 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Intergraph Electronics

Date: 8 Jan 93 22:44:32 GMT
Message-Id: <1993Jan8.224432.27914@dazixco.ingr.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


Hi Xperts, 

This is posted for a friend of mine 
(dbaldwin@hiflyer.dazixco.ingr.com (Don Baldwin) so please reply via email to him.

He is running an application that uses X-Server memory (for images). He noticed
that each time he invokes the application and quit out of it, the X-Server is not
releasing the image memory, so after several time his swap memory is gone. He is 
running on an Intergraph Clipper. 
Do any of you Xperts know something about a bug in X-server that will cause it to
behave like that.

Thank you very much for your time.

----
Naftaly Stramer 			    |   Intergraph Corporation
Internet: naftaly@dazixco.ingr.com          |   Electronics Division    
Voice: (303)581-2370  FAX: (303)581-9972    |   6101 Lookout Road, Suite A
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From: ama@marley.Eng.Sun.COM (Al Amaral - SunSelect)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Writting to other client`s windows.
Date: 8 Jan 93 04:54:41 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. - BDC

Date: 7 Jan 93 23:44:30 GMT
Message-Id: <1iif8uINNiuu@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <251@io.trident.datasys.swri.edu> johns@io.datasys.swri.edu (Stephen Johns) writes:
>I have two clients, via sockets I send the window ID from one client
>to the other.  I then try XDraw calls to the passed window ID.  Nothing
>happens, and I mean nothing, no warning, no errors, no drawing.  Does
>X support this at all?

Yes, this is supported.  Did you flush your X dpy buffers?  Calling
XSync, XFlush, or most of the XEvent routines will do this for you.

The only two things (that I can think of at the moment) you have to 
watch for is:

1)  If your clients are not on the same machine you have to make sure
    that different byte ordering is taken into consideration when you
    pass the window ID through the socket.  If this was your problem
    you would get an error...

2)  If the client which created the window goes away the window will,
    by default also go away.  The other client had better watch for this.
    There is supposed to be a mechanism for asking the server to keep
    things like windows around after the client has closed its connection,
    but I've never used it so I don't know off-hand what it is.


--
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Al Amaral				Al.Amaral@East.Sun.COM
From: drew@vision.co.uk (Andy Walker)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: PC-Xview Remote for Windows and DOS
Date: 8 Jan 93 11:21:30 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK

Date: 8 Jan 93 08:49:53 GMT
Message-Id: <1993Jan8.084953.10056@visionware.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

cdost+@pitt.edu (Constantin D Orogo) writes:
: 
: Anybody out there have used PC-Xview XRemote for Windows or for DOS.
: NCD's brochure claims it's 10 times faster than SLIP or PPP. What
: applications have you ran on that shows decent performance. Also,
: anybody used a Silicon Graphics as the host.

VisionWare's XVision was the first MS-Windows based PC XServer to
licence the XRemote software from NCD.
We make similar claims about the increase in speed over SLIP/PPP
- (its the same protocol and at the host end the same code :)
We use XRemote in-house and for staff to dial into the office.
There are certain types of application which perform _better_ than
others when using XRemote:
Apps which do a lot of line drawing / textual operations are fine
because many of the messages are similar and the redundancy can be 
stripped out.
Apps which use a lot of imaging - eg sending of big bitmaps, perform
less well because all the data has to squeeze thru the serial line.

See also the recent useful posting on Comp.windows.x from Jim Fulton (NCD)
on 01-Jan-93 (Re: What is XRemote? - and notice about LBX).

Hope this helps
Andy

--
Andy Walker
VisionWare Ltd                  EMAIL   : drew@visionware.co.uk
57 Cardigan Lane                PHONE   : +44 (0)532 788858 Ext. 204
Leeds, LS4 2LE, England         FAX     : +44 (0)532 304676
From: dgreen@smurf.sti.com (Dan R. Greening)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Any Experiences with X over serial lines
Date: 7 Jan 93 05:57:29 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Software Transformation, Inc.

Date: 6 Jan 1993 19:01:59 -0800
Message-Id: <1ig6f7INN2fo@smurf.sti.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

sandy@amoco.com wrote:
>
>
>Has anyone had any experience using Workstations over serial lines  ?
>It would be nice to be able to have dial up access to do support etc;
>( Home working perhaps ?? )

I have done dialup PPP and SLIP (these implement the IP protocol over
serial lines).  After using both for many months, I prefer PPP, simply 
because the implementations appear to be more robust and don't crash
my systems.  (Of course this is anecdotal.)  I did this between two Suns,
both running SunOS 4.1.1.  One of them used Morningstar PPP (commercial).
The other used a public domain implementation of PPP.

I have only done this at v.32bis modem speeds (14.4KB + compression).

For displaying text, and drawing simple line drawings, my modem X
operations work fine, though quite a bit slower than ethernet.  For 
large pictures, however, you have a long wait ahead of you.

The new serial line stuff in X11R6/Xvision is beneficial only in that it
provides substantial compression and therefore is faster.  PPP/SLIP will
do the job acceptably for now, however.

Regards,
-- 
____
\  /Dan Greening    Software Transformation   1601 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Rd, #100
 \/dgreen@sti.com   (408) 973-8081 x313       Cupertino, CA 95014