On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Rino Mardo wrote:
> this is possible in all flavors of *nix and Sun's is one of them. what
> you actually saw are not computers but rather dumb terminals and the
> reason they are able to move from one terminal to another is that they
> are actually logged in the Sun box and not to those terminals. sort of
> like issuing a "nohup" to suspend your processes even if you
> disconnect.
This part reminds me a bit of VNC, which allows you to retain state from
one session to the next - of course you have to remain logged on and just
close the VNC session. I'm not sure I'd want to be logged on all the time
just for the sake of this convenience - but in case of a local power
outage on a terminal that didn't have a UPS, maybe....
Bob Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Trillium Technologies Ent.
General Santos City, Philippines
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