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Please set the line wrap to something less than 80 characters in your mail
client.  Thanks.

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Thai.Dang-Vu-1 wrote:

> I have a question. Could I configure a Windows machine as an X client
> so that from a Linux machine I can run Internet Explorer and have the IE
> window on that Linux machine? If it is possible, could you tell me which
> document I should read?
>
No.  IIRC, a project to do this was discussed on this list about a year
ago, but AFAIK, nothing came of it.  Search the archives if you are
interested.

Google for VNC or rdesktop for other alternatives.

-- 
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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