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Re: X server for windows
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:07:21 GMT
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:52:50 GMT "Sproaticus" <jsproat@io.com> wrote
concerning 'Re: X server for windows':
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger writes:
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...

http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/

Note 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.

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 actually connect... perhaps I should give it another shot?


...Why won't vim work without X?

it would work in a terminal, not in GUI mode.

Dan



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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) (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 (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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