On 9/14/2011 1:31, Invisible wrote:
> On 13/09/2011 10:01 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> On 9/13/2011 11:45, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> So what changed then? Certainly X hasn't changed since prehistoric
>>> times...
>>
>> ssh port forwarding, for one. It was never hard to forward X. It was
>> hard to forward X securely and hard to forward X without first logging
>> in over a command line interface.
>
> You mean SSH hasn't existed since before System V as well?

*Relatively* speaking, ssh is much newer than rsh. It's also relatively new 
that it will do port forwarding and stuff like that. Remember that ssh was 
standardized in 1995 or so, and X has been around far longer than that.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   How come I never get only one kudo?

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