alundin@carina.unm.edu (Alan Lundin) (07/11/90)
I've been considering how an implementation of something like a TeX dvi previewer should be implemented in the MGR environment. Presumably it would be desirable for the fonts to reside locally so as to avoid having to transfer large bitmaps from the remote side. Since MGR doesn't (yet :-) support METAFONT/dvi fonts directly, how would you efficiently build such a bitmap and then display it? On the surface at least, it seems that the ability to start an arbitary process on the local side (from the client) would be useful. In this case if a program was known to be available on the local machine, the client could then request of MGR to start a process and perhaps display the results. Any thoughts? --Alan Lundin