Re: [tlug] Re: command line

[Martin Baehr <mbaehr@example.com>]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:19:01PM +0900, A.Sajjad Zaidi wrote:
> > for the commandline i can only think of:
> > logging into a remote machine.
> You could use a GUI frontend to do that too, just like you do with PuTTY
> or TeraTerm in Windows, 

how is that different from an xterm?

> although you would have to use the CLI on the remote machine.

exactly.

> Even that can be overridden by using X Forwarding and running GUI admin
> tools remotely (oh the horror). There is no hope.

yes, but you still need to "type" the command you want to run
as these things are not preconfigured by default.
but i just remembered something else: xdmcp.
with that you could log directly into the remote machine
and thus avoid the commandline.

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