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Date:      Mon, 22 Jun 1998 22:50:22 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Dave Bender <bendede@startribune.com>, "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: DCC thru alias? was (Re: X thru ppp alias?) 
Message-ID:  <199806222150.WAA21476@awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jun 1998 13:51:45 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980622133339.28872X-100000@mercury.jorsm.com> 

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> On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> > I'm afraid this can't work AFAIK.  When you run the remote 
> > application, it has to make a connection back to the machine with the 
> > DISPLAY.  There's no way for the alias engine to know which internal 
> > machine should get the data back.
> 
> Speaking of this...DCC on IRC works this same way, yet it worked for me
> yesterday.  I would expect it to not work, for the same reasons as above.  
[.....]

Libalias has special support for IRC and a few other things.  It 
notices the outgoing packets and prepares its tables for the reply...

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-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
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