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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xaps over ppp connection (Q)
Date: 12 Oct 1996 12:53:40 GMT
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fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND) wrote:

> I don't think so: xcalc is a small program sending rectangles and text
> to be drawn, not images/bitmaps.

j@uriah 132% ( date ; ssh ida /usr/X11R6/bin/xcalc -display uriah:0.0 ) &
[1] 9338
j@uriah 133% Sat Oct 12 14:46:08 MET DST 1996
date
Sat Oct 12 14:46:50 MET DST 1996

(The second date command has been typed once the window appeared with
all details.)

That's using a 14400 link, with modem compression enabled, with VJ
header compression.  The link was not totally idle though.

Seems xcalc actually creates a lot of X11 elements, i think something
like an xterm starts up much faster.  xcalc is almost as slow as an
Emacs in startup.

Fortunately, once they are started, they run fast enough to be usable.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)