Re: EXE at server

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:43:39 +0000
Richard Heathfield <rjh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

sb5309@xxxxxxxxx said:

There is an EXE file on a web server (assumed to be a linux binary).

Er, it's unlikely to be a Linux binary if it's an EXE file. EXE is a
CP/M, MS-DOS, and now Win32 executable file format.

This executable will show an interactive presentation on a monitor.

Is it possible to get the server to run the program, but display the
interacttive presentation at a client machine (over the internet) ?

If the program has been properly written as an X client, it is indeed
possible to write an X server that will serve display functionality over
the Net. But it probably isn't an X client, because nobody's ever that
lucky. :-(

Even if it is an X client it will need to be run with the DISPLAY
environment variable appropriately set and it will need to be able to
connect to the X server running on the "client" machine and in order to be
reasonably pleasant to use there will have to be adequate bandwidth and low
latency between the two machines.

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