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    X server for windows —Dan Boger
   Hey geeks :) Anyone know of a free X server for windows I could use? I really want to be able to edit stuff off my work computer at home, but it's so hard without VIM/Emacs... Or, another option, instead of an x server, anyone ever tried to forward (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: X server for windows —Matthew Miller
     (...) Xwin32 is free for 2 hours of use per session. There's another one called something like M/X, but if I remember right, it's not as good. You could also use VNC.... How fast is your network connection? If it's less than 1.5MB both ways, I'd not (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
    
         Re: X server for windows —Dan Boger
     (...) I have VNC set up, and I use it sometimes - but transferring 1600x1200 on a 56K, even over a compressed SSH is too slow for comfort... :/ (...) 56K - I've used X over 33k before, and it was better than vnc - still less data transferred, I (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
    
         Re: X server for windows —Matthew Miller
     (...) Different than that. You can use SSH to set up "poor man's vpn". I'm too tired to think hard about it right now :) but the end result is your computer thinks it has a new network interface with an IP address on a private (10.x.x.x) network. (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
    
         Re: X server for windows —Dan Boger
     On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 05:38:15 GMT mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) wrote concerning 'Re: X server for windows': (...) cool - that sounds like it might do the trick... have any how-to's off-hand? :) Dan (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
    
         Re: X server for windows —Matthew Miller
     (...) Yes indeed. (URL) Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org Quotes 'R' Us ---> (URL) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: X server for windows —Jeremy H. Sproat
     (...) (URL) that I haven't actually tried that yet (still waiting for my DSL line so I don't have to X over a *!@#^& 33.6 modem.) I'm currently using Novell's Lan Workplace Pro which has a very decent X server in the package. ...Why won't vim work (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
    
         Re: X server for windows —Dan Boger
     On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:52:50 GMT "Sproaticus" <jsproat@io.com> wrote concerning 'Re: X server for windows': (...) since we're talking about my wife's computer, it has the LanWorkplacePro installed there... I tried to use it's X but it wouldn't (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
    
         Re: X server for windows —Jeremy H. Sproat
     (...) I would try to do so. Mine worked like a champ very first time, though, so I don't know how great I would be in helping to diagnose your situation. BTW, the verion I'm using won't tell me a version number (arg >:-P spit fume), but it was (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: X server for windows —Steven Vore
   see (URL) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 

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