re desqview x over tcp ip how reliable how is it implemented in article c bflb kem cs columbia edu ethan cs columbia edu ethan solomita writes three q s is it reliable i use it all day every day maintaining our ftp site and answering mail via support qdeck com and i can honestly say that in the last few months i ve never had my machine go down due to any sort of tcpip network manager instability of course i ve crashed my machine quite a few times on purpose during beta testing and that sort of thing but the tcpip portion is quite stable however keep in mind that dvx and the network managers are only going to be as stable as the software they sit on top of so if your underlying network kernel is flakey you can t expect dvx to be terribly stable how does it send the information from a ms windows app over the x protocol does it just draw everything as graphics into one window or does it use multiple windows and essentially work more cleverly it just goes as a window that has graphics drawn into it to vastly over simplify what goes on we just take the windows graphics api calls and translate them directly to x protocol unfortunately windows was not really written to be network aware so sometimes we see a speed penalty when an app does something stupid like sending a big white bitmap to erase something rather than just drawing a white box fortunately that sort of thing is rare if i want to run ms word for example remotely do i have to run a separate copy of ms windows remotely and then start ms word from that or can ms word be started remotely on its own you need to run ms windows which word then runs inside you could run multiple windows programs within the one winx window and windows has ways to automagically start winapps when you start windows so in practice it s not really a major problem i have my system set up so that i can run winx which automatically starts word full screen for windows so i never see any part of windows but word quarterdeck office systems internet support tom bortels pricing ordering info qdeck com tech questions support qdeck com bbs fax compuserve go quarterdeck anonymous ftp qdeck com leave your email address as password
