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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> Can you telnet from one terminal and run X from another, in both 
> cases accessing the programs and/or modem connection on the server?

How do you want this? There are multiple possibilities. You could, of
course, have all your X programs on a machine with a large hard drive,
and have them displayed on a machine with a monitor plugged into it.
I would do that by running telnetd on the machine with the large drive,
and then I'd startxt (is that a verb??) and run telnet on the machine
with a monitor. Then in telnet I'd export DISPLAY and start running
programs with telnet. Of course, just running rxvt would probably be
easier.

> My partner wants to telnet in to our bbs on both terminals at once, 
> with no need to Alt-F1/Alt-F2 to switch, and do a 'talk' with each 
> other.  I already have a two-monitor setup on one computer but only 
> one keyboard.
> We could do this with two laptop computers and one modem.

How would you switch keyboards in this case? Or could you use two
rxvts?

> Or with the dumb terminal method (serial cable) I could use as 
> client a 386 laptop computer with 1MB RAM, and DOS and kermit on a 
> boot disk and no hard drive.  Or use an actual dumb terminal - we 
> have a portable one (plus two dead ones made a long time ago in our 
> city - Ann Arbor Ambassador).

I've always wanted to try using a dumb terminal with my setup here.
It would be handy to be able to have two people using one computer at
once. One could be checking their email with something like Sylpheed,
and I could be browsing with links on the terminal.

> Of course no X this way, just CLI.  

There are also those X terminals, but they're probably more expensive
than a BL3-equipped computer masquerading as an X terminal.

> Fine for reading email, links, practicing shell scripts while 
> someone else uses the computer for other things.

Heh-heh. I typed almost exactly the same thing above before I read
all of your message. :)

> Fun. I have to try httpd some time soon.  Any other features of BL3 
> you suggest learning on?

httpd is simple. Just cd to the directory you want to serve up, and
type httpd. Then open up a browser and type in your IP address to
access it.

I can't think of any other interesting features to comment on at the
moment.

David
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