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sxpc(1) 				X				 sxpc(1)

NAME
     The Simple X Protocol Compressor

SYNOPSIS
     This  program provides compression of the X protocol stream. It is intended
     to be used to improve the performance of X applications over a slow  inter-
     net  connection.	(e.g.  slip, cslip, or term) It assumes a Unix operating
     system at	both ends of the link.	Transferring  large  bitmaps  or  images
     through  sxpc  may  be  slower  than not using it.  The algorithms used are
     geared primarily for the data exchanged during interactive  use  where  the
     same  data  may be sent several times with only small changes.  (e.g. edit-
     ing)

     WARNING WARNING  DANGER DANGER

     If you use this program, use xauth to provide SECURITY,  since   host-based
     security  will  be  BYPASSED.  See README.xauth. (If somebody knows you are
     running sxpc they will be able to connect to your server and watch what you
     type, what shows up on your screen, or type for you... A BAD THING :-()

DESCRIPTION
     For notes on using sxpc with term see README.term.

     On the X clients' host:

     For csh based shells:

     setenv DISPLAY `sxpc remote $DISPLAY `

     For sh based shells:

     DISPLAY=`sxpc remote $DISPLAY`

     export DISPLAY

     (where $DISPLAY is the display setting you would normally use to connect to
     the X server from the clients' host.)

     On the X server host:
      sxpc local $DISPLAY

     Killing SXPC To kill sxpc in your .logout. (or any other time.)

     kill `cat /tmp/sxpc.THEDISPLAYARG`

     (where THEDISPLAYARG is the value of $DISPLAY used in the	sxpc  line,  NOT
     the  value  DISPLAY setting sxpc outputs. ie if you run sxpc remote foo:0.0
     it would be /tmp/sxpc.foo:0.0.)

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     XCLIENTGATEPORT

     Sets the base port on which clients will connect to the   X  server.   This
     will  be added to the display number to get the final port number.  The de-
     fault is 6008 so that by default the DISPLAY setting  to  connect	to  sxpc
     will be localhost:DisplayNumber+8:0.0

     XCOMPGATEPORT

     Sets the base port on which the sxpc running on the X server host will lis-
     ten  for  connections.  This will be added to the display number to get the
     final port number.  The default is 4000 so that the sxpc on  the  X  server
     host will listen on port 4000 (if it is directed to display on display 0.)

AUTHOR
     Rob Ryan (robr@cmu.edu)

X				    09sep1993				 sxpc(1)

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