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NOTE: This version of gnuserv has some enhancements over the original version
distributed by Andy Norman. See the end of this file for more details.
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To install, copy gnuserv.el into a directory on your GNU Emacs
load-path. Edit Makefile and change INCLUDES to point to the src
directory underneath your emacs source tree (or make yourself a
config.h file in this directory by hand, starting with config.h.proto
as a first cut) and type:
make
This should compile the server and the two clients. Now put gnuserv,
gnuclient and gnudoit in a directory that users have in their executable
search paths.
File : Description
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Makefile : Makefile to build gnuserv
LICENSE : GNU General License
README : this file
gnuclient.c : editor client C code
gnudoit.c : eval client C code
gnuserv.1 : gnuserv man page
gnuserv.c : server C code
gnuserv.el : server LISP code for GNU Emacs V18,V19,
XEmacs/Lucid Emacs and Epoch V4
gnuserv.h : server/client C header file
gnuslib.c : server/client C common code
src.x11fns.diff : diffs to src/x11fns to raise window (for emacs18)
config.h.proto : Use this file as the starting point for constructing
a config.h if you don't have access to the
one that was used when compiling your emacs.
If you find *any* problems at all with gnuserv, or you can think of better
ways of doing things (especially remote file access), please e-mail me at one
of the addresses below.
ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com
ange@hpl.hp.co.uk
...!hplabs!hplb!ange
...!ukc!hplb!ange
This version of gnuserv has been enhanced by a number of people, including
Bob Weiner <weiner@mot.com>, Darrell Kindred <dkindred@cmu.edu>,
Arup Mukherjee <arup@cmu.edu>, and Ben Wing <ben@xemacs.org>. The
modifications are basically as follows:
Bob Weiner:
Integrated support for several versions of emacs. New requests
from gnuclient cause the creation of new frames. Removed the
restriction on the length of the string passed to gnudoit. Later
added a server-done-function variable to control what happens to
a buffer after the user is done with it. Mods to each of the .c
files as well as gnuserv.el.
Darrell Kindred:
Removed the restriction on the length of the string returned from
a gnudoit request, for the purposes of unix/internet sockets.
Allow the gnudoit request to be read from stdin if it's not
specified on the command line. Internet sockets are not opened
unless the GNU_SECURE variable is specified. Unix sockets are
created in a protected ancestral directory, since many Unix
variants don't enforce socket permissions properly. An internet
socket accepting local connections is not opened by default
because this would make it possibly to override all security on
the unix socket. See the man page for details. Unless told to do
otherwise by a command-line argument, gnuclient and gnudoit now
try to open a unix socket by default if support for them was
compiled in. Mods to each of the .c files and to gnuserv.el.
Arup Mukherjee:
Removed the restriction on the length of the string returned from
a gnudoit request, for the purposes of sysv ipc. Added support
for the "gnuserv-frame" variable allowing you to specify control
whether or not new screens are created in response to each
gnuclient request. Made a number of other bugfixes and changes to
the lisp part of the code, allowing gnuserv to work properly with
newer emacs versions. All the changes are listed in the changelog
at the beginning of gnuserv.el. Also fixed up the man page to
reflect the new gnuserv features. On HPs, stopped the "-r"
parameter (in gnuclient) from defaulting to /net/<remotehost>.
Not all installations want this, and it's much harder to debug
when things stop working. Changed the man page to reflect this.
Mods to each of the .c files, gnuserv.el and gnuserv.1
More recently - added Xauth(1X11)-style authentication to gnuserv (as
of version 2.1). Although the code is completely new, credit is
due to Richard Caley <rjc@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk> ... he wrote a
prototype implementation from which I borrowed the basic
mechanism for hooking Xauth into gnuserv.
Ben Wing:
Added gnuattach.
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