NXHosting on OS X

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amxd

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Please can anyone confirm if it's possible to NXHost applications on OS X?

ie.. run an app on one machine and display it's interface on another machine? I am a NeXTSTEP / OPENSTEP user and use to be able to do this. It's a killer feature and I really hope it still exists under X.

Sadly I am yet to get my hands on a machine running OS X!

thanks,
AM.
 
Sadly no it isn't possible. NXHosting requires some services that aren't there anymore (i.e. Display Postscript). I too have lamented its passing (and the fact that there isn't a replacement).

I guess we're stuck with the clunky Timbuktu and its ilk.

 
Although it doesn't work now, at least the recognition of it is present in the open command:

<tt>% strings `which open`
...
-NSHost
...</tt>

However, if you try to use it:

<tt>% open -v -a -NSHost foo TextEdit
Feb 16 12:15:45 open[802] No such file: /Users/mark/-v
Feb 16 12:15:45 open[802] No such file: /Users/mark/-a
Feb 16 12:15:45 open[802] No such file: /Users/mark/-NSHost
Feb 16 12:15:45 open[802] No such file: /Users/mark/foo
Feb 16 12:15:45 open[802] No such file: /Users/mark/TextEdit </tt>

and TextEdit just goes ahead and runs on the console.

Obviously open has some bugs to work out, since -v and -a are both valid flags, and also alter open's behaviour...
 
Well...I wouldn't hold my breath for that to come online. It could just be cruft left over from the old code base that just hasn't been cleaned up.

Just my opinion...

-Henry
 
I can think of a few thousand things on Apple's TODO list which have a higher priority than remote display PDF.

However having said that, Steve's parrot told me support has been added and will be enabled in a post-GM update.
 
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