From: steranka AT steranka DOT com (Patrick Steranka) Subject: Re: WIN32on UNIX? 3 Jun 1998 10:24:03 -0700 Message-ID: <3574B9F6.CF069963.cygnus.gnu-win32@steranka.com> References: <356DC217 DOT B3A0F863 AT thinclient DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stephen Greenberg Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On a couple of projects I have worked on we needed to access Window's formated "HELP" *.hlp files on a UNIX system. A company called Bristol Technologies has a product that we used. It was fine for what we wanted. Nothing special, but the windows help "app" running under UNIX. The also have a product that makes it easy to port apps from Windows to UNIX. They may have something that lets you run windows apps on UNIX, but I don't know. The URL is < Bristol Technology Inc. Home Page (hyperhelp) >. I just tried it and it timed out. I'm on their mailing list, so think they are still around. HTH, Patrick Steranka steranka AT steranka DOT com Stephen Greenberg wrote: > As an integrator of Thin Client and UNIX-NT solutions we are looking for > > an alternative solution to presenting WIN32 applications to the UNIX > desktop. Currently, we are using variations of Citrix Winframe and > Microsoft Terminal Server (beta) technologies for this purpose, however, > > there are a growing number of issues with these solutions for UNIX > environments. If you are not familiar with this products, they are > multi-user versions of WIN NT that allow NT user sessions to display on > UNIX desktops. > > We are currently evaluating a product called "LiftOff" from New Moon > which distributes WIN32 execution by intercepting API calls on the host > server and re-directing them over the network to be executed on client > systems. This is an intriguing approach to distributed processing, > however, it requires that the client system be able to execute the full > functionality of WIN32. Currently, only WIN9x and WINNT can successfully > > act as clients to this WIN NT application server approach. > > (This is a link to info on the product) > > http://www.newmoon.com/company/press_room/press_releases/pr_05-05-98.html > > My question is if there is a way to allow a UNIX desktop to act as a > full WIN32 client, i.e. receive the API calls from the Windows > application server and execute them locally. Any information, thoughts > or speculations are appreciated! > > Thank You in advance... > > Steve Greenberg > Thin Client Computing > 15111 N. Hayden Rd #160-107 > Scottsdale, AZ 85260 > (602) 432-UNIX > (602) 483-7570 fax > steveg AT thinclient DOT net > > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".