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From: jafo@ariel.tummy.com (Sean Reifschneider)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sometimes you need X server source (Was: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium)
Date: 30 Mar 96 16:26:48 GMT
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In article <4jg1a1$4b8@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, <erik@fenris.campus.vt.edu> wrote:
>Jonathan Walters (jwalters@idirect.com) wrote:
>: Is it a figment of my imagination or do most modems already compress
>: any data being transfered. That would make LBX a waste of time.
>
>Yes, most modems do compress data being sent. In some cases, yu might want
>to disable this for quicker response.
You should check 'dxpc', available on sunsite.unc.edu and some others.
It does proxy and compression. You run a server on the remote machine,
a client on your local machine, and then point your remote display at
"<the remote machine>:8". I was getting 1.5 to 4x compression the othery
day when I was trying xterm and a graphical documentation browser through
it. This was on a 28.8K compressing modem which I'm sure couldn't have
given me 4x compression on this data, I don't know how it effected the
1.5x, but it was probably still compressable via v.42bis. Bitmaps and
all.
Sean
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Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo@tummy.com>
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