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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 5 Apr 1997 17:48:41 GMT
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hdm@demon.net (Dominic Mitchell) 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.

The advantage of LBX is that it's a Consortium standard (now, finally,
with X11R6.3).

-- 
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. ;-)