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Ron Clarke wrote:
>
> How do you shut the damn thing off once it is running ?  

Press Q.  I think ESC works too.

> Alt+tab, then logout ?

To shutdown X, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE always works.  Otherwise,
right-click mouse and click on the menu.

> Where would I look for the manual for this presentation prog ?

man mgp

> Also, it accesses my other machine (Lois, running thttpd under BL2.1) 

BTW, thttpd is included in BL3.

> with links just fine.  But how does one get to run Lois' applications 
> from BL3 on Clark ?   

You can transfer files by downloading from links or wget.
But actually running applications, while they are sitting on 
another system, is a bit more complicated.

> Do I need to install and configure the NFS ?

That is one way of doing it.  However, I removed the built-in
NFS capability from the BL3 kernel to save space.  You would 
need to do three insmods to get the BL3 kernel to mount a remote
NFS partition.  Unfortunately, the necessary modules for that
are not included with BL3 (they are quite large), so you would
first have to download them.

But, a simpler option is available.  Just startxt on clark.
Then on lois, export an xterm (or wm):
----------------------
export DISPLAY=clark:0
xterm &
----------------------
Then clark will be able to run anything on lois from that xterm.

If you are unhappy about the window/font size of the xterm that
arrives on clark, use -font and -geometry parameters for that
xterm command (the & goes at the end) or simply send a wm:
----------------------
export DISPLAY=clark:0
icewm &
----------------------

Cheers,
Steven