From: a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh) Subject: Re: running X appl. by modem ? Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 18:49:00 GMT
In article <1993Sep21.183248.28107@hellgate.utah.edu> predard%sunset.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Pablo Redard) writes:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I'm wondering if I can log into my account at the university
>from home (through modem) and run an X application?
>I have linux and I'm running openwin.
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>thanks.
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The following is a artical on news by g9wayne@cdf.toronto.edu :
There are numerous ways of dialing out from any Unix box, including Linux.
I use kermit(1) to make the initial connection. It has good vt100
emulation, and is a basic command-line communications program. There
are others that are more "graphical" under X, like seyon, but I've never
used it.
After I make the connection with kermit, I always exit kermit and start
term(1), which allows me to have multiple virtual connections over the
modem, and to run X programs remotely. For example, I can run xmaple
or matlab remotely, over my modem. There is also reportedly a version
of oot running under Linux. Ask Prof. Holt for more info.
If you installed kermit and term on your Linux box, then this is how you'd
do what I just explained.
linux$ kermit
kermit> set line /dev/cua0 # or whatever you terminal line is
kermit> set speed 2400 # or your speed...
kermit> connect
at
OK
atdt9787239 # wait...
CONNECT
PACX....
SERVICE? cdf
eddie.cdf login: g9wayne
Password:
[login message...]
g9wayne@eddie> term -s2400
[now get back to kermit command mode, or exit kermit]
kermit> !term -s2400 </dev/cua0 >/dev/cua0 &
kermit> quit
linux$ trsh # start a remote shell
g9wayne@eddie> txconn # start up remote X server.
Then you can go to another Linux screen, or linux xterm, and type another
"trsh", and you'll have two shells running on eddie.
Get, install, and read the docs for kermit & term for more info.
[For those of you not running Linux at home, other people will have to help
you, I can't.]