I, "Green, Keith" wrote: > > Currently, we tell our users to buy Exceed. However, I installed > XFree86 on my machine and have been able to run the program under > it with no problem. Unfortunately, this is way overkill for what we want > the users to do; I just want them to be able to run the program, > without having them tinker for hours getting configurations correct. > etc.
Ted Responded: >I don't think you've told us quite enough to understand your problem. >I'm guessing that "the program" is an X client. That suggests that it's >meant to run in some Unix, or Linux, or VMS (?) environment. Exceed is >etc. Thanks for your response. I will try to be more clear. As you say, Exceed is an X server. I can take a program designed and programmed under Unix (IRIX) that my colleagues have written and I can bring this over to my PC. On my PC, I compile this application in with some Exceed libraries. This is a different version of Exceed than the one that simply provides an X Server. It also provides libraries I can link to. The user executes our program ON THEIR PC (no unix box is involved). Exceed somehow wakes up and processes the X commands. So the application both runs on the (windows) PC and is displayed on the same PC via the X server. Of course, I could run this on the unix box and just display on PC, but that's not the what the users will be doing. I guess I don't understand the situation with XFree86. I'm running a program on top of my windows 2000. It's like a separate environment -- looks and acts like linux. I browsed the internet for a long time until I found this "thing" that looked like what I wanted and installed it. It seems to be what I want, but it's huge. When it comes up it says "Cygwin/XFree86" in the upper left corner. Maybe XFree86 and Cygwin/XFree86 are separate things and I've somehow conflated these? I follow links and read stuff, but there's a lot to read - much of which I only vaguely understand, and maybe I've made some assumptions that I ought not to have made. In my mind's eye, I think (correctly or not) that this cygwin/xfree86 has a relation to my windows 2000 analogous to that which my old windows 95 had to dos, i.e. cygwin/xfree86 : windows 2000 :: windows 95 : dos. I strongly sense that I can use this cygwin/xfree86 "environment" to do what I want to do. In fact, I'm sure of it...since it already works on my PC. However, I don't want to send out this half a gig package for our users to install (half a gig being all of the cygwin and XFree86 stuff) and I can't assume that my users will have access to the expert I had to get my own system started. thanks again, k ____________________________________________________ Keith Green, Research Staff Member Room 105W, Simulation Center, Institute for Defense Analyses 1801 N. Beauregard St., Alexandria, VA 22311-1772 Wk: (703) 845-6815 Fax: (703) 845-6809 _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
