Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.sandia.gov!usenet From: "Randall R. Lober" <rrlober@sandia.gov> Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.machten,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: ...Running X clients on a UNIX box via a Macintosh - HELP!... Date: 21 Nov 1995 18:50:32 GMT Organization: Sandia National Laboratories Lines: 51 Message-ID: <48t71o$t80@news.sandia.gov> References: <tmc-2011951559480001@frodo.success.net> <daniel-2111950829030001@ts1311.slip.colostate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sass1500.engsci.sandia.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) X-URL: news:daniel-2111950829030001@ts1311.slip.colostate.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:35356 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:73496 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1544 comp.unix.machten:1114 comp.unix.questions:73215 daniel@cs.colostate.edu (John Daniel) wrote: >In article <tmc-2011951559480001@frodo.success.net>, tmc@wentworth.com >(Tim McLain) wrote: > >> In short, I need to know what software I need to run on my Mac to access >> the UNIX box and execute X clients located there, and have them display on >> my Mac. >Try white pine's eXodus. It should do exactly what you want. >You can download a demo at http://www.wpine.com It may do the basics. I've been using eXodus (the White Pine product) for a couple of years, and I've recently switched to XoftWare since it is more robust. Specifically, if any of the X programs you want to run use the HOOPs graphical engine for their underlying display capability, you'll have fun trying to get it to work with eXodus. Works fine with XoftWare as is out of the box. I've talked with White Pine tech support, they did try to help me, but punted and said it was probably a font problem, should work, that kind of drivel. MachTen is very nice, but you don't need this cannon for quail. Get it if you want to do unix-style code development on your mac occasionally, or you just have to have unix on all your machines. Bottomline, it was faster to buy the competitors product. Plus XoftWare is about 10% cheaper. Check 'em out. http://www.age.com Randy Lober +----------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ | | | | _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ | Randy R. Lober | | _/ _/_/ _/ _/ | Email: rrlober@sandia.gov | | _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ | (505) 845-9353 FAX 844-8251 | | _/ _/ _/_/ _/ | Senior Member of Technical Staff | | _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ | Engineering Sciences Center 9100 | | | Thermal & Fluid Engineering Dept. 9113 | | Sandia National Laboratories +----------------------------------------+ | P.O. Box 5800 | A day without UNIX, is like a day | | Albuquerque, NM 87185-0835 | without sunshine. | +----------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ > >John Daniel > >-- >"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you"