"Green, Keith" wrote: > > I, "Green, Keith" wrote: [...] > 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.
There's more to Exceed than I was aware of. > 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? There's more to XFree86 than I was aware of, too. Cygwin is (as I understand it) basically a fairly complete Linux/Unix environment that runs under Windows, and now I learn that there's a port of XFree86 that runs under Cygwin, under Windows. >From what you tell me, Exceed provides basically the same thing, a Unix/X11 environment running under Windows. Sorry I misunderstood. You're outside my area of expertise. You might be able to find (or perhaps create) a kit to make Cygwin/XFree86 easy to install, but I expect it will still be big (but smaller than one CD-ROM). You might do better to focus your search on the Cygwin part rather than the XFree86 part. -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
