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From: hdm@demon.net (Dominic Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 13:42:36 GMT
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Earlier, J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
> I have to checkout the latest release of the LBX work for my remote
> FreeBSD work.  Maybe i'll switch to an X11 Emacs there, too. ;-)

Have a look at dxpc[1], which does a compressed X thingy, and alledgedly
works quite well.  Also, ssh can do compressed X streams.

-Dom

[1] <URL:http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~zvonler/dxpc/>
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