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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!news.sgi.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!shellx.best.com!bohandas From: HCI <bohandas@best.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: xaps over ppp connection (Q) Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 22:19:16 -0700 Organization: Best Internet Communications Lines: 34 Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.961019221600.24818A-100000@shellx.best.com> References: <325CF4EC.57A3@foto.infi.net> <53l1kh$4ia@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: shellx.best.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <53l1kh$4ia@uriah.heep.sax.de> I have successfully run Netscape on my ISP's CPU via telnet, and had it display flawlessly on my home monitor via my ppp link. It was horribly slow. It took a full minute or more before the frame of the web browser was displayed, and even longer before it was colored in. Perhaps you just need to wait longer. On 11 Oct 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > Tom Misiak <misiak@foto.infi.net> wrote: > > > I have been able to successfully set up my > > user PPP under FreeBSD 2.1 to connect to my HP workstation > > at work. I can telnet from my machine to my workstation > > using its IP and everything in that (telnet) xterm works > > great and relatively fast. I then execute xhost+ on my > > end and setenv DISPLAY IP:0.0 on my workstation's end. > > I then attempted to start a simple xapp to see what > > happens. I executed xcalc& in the telnet term. After > > about 45 secs I got the outline of xcalc but the app > > never became usable (had the frame but nothing in it...) > > Perhaps it's the non-rectangular buttons, i'm not sure. I even ran > Emacs across a plain 14400 link, and never ran into any serious > problems apart from not exactly feeling like on an Ethernet. ;) > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > > >