From: Bill Thompson (bill.thompson@GOODYEAR.COM)
Date: Wed May 05 2004 - 09:51:51 EDT
Okay, I dusted off the cobwebs and remembered the name of the second product. It was called "NTrigue" and was also by Insignia
Solutions. Don't know if you can still buy it (it was a great product at the time) but there is still information about it on the web:
http://swexpert.com/R/SE.F2.DEC.96.pdf
Bill Thompson
Sr UNIX Systems Administrator
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
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From: "Bill Thompson" <bill.thompson@GOODYEAR.COM>
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Subject: Re: Invoke an application on windows
> Back in the early 90's Insignia Solutions created a product called SoftPC which ran a PC emulator on a Unix box. They later came out
> with SoftWindows which ran a Windows emulator on Unix. To my surprise it is still available (albeit in a Windows 95 version):
>
>
http://www.dealtime.co.uk/xPF-Insignia_SoftWindows_95_4_0_Unix_06250_4_0?cfA3F32229=YTMyNzU4OTpnb29keWVhcmludGVybmV0Oi9L8fugdI4cqWbGcfewqcc
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>
>
> They also made a product that ran Windows NT on a central PC server and pushed the display out to Unix machines but unfortunately I
> cannot remember the name of this product.
>
> Bill Thompson
> Sr UNIX Systems Administrator
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kumar, Praveen (cahoot)" <Praveen.Kumar@CAHOOT.COM>
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> Subject: Invoke an application on windows
>
> > Hi,
> > Is there anyway by using some third party drivers or some kind of
> > API,i can execute a windows application sitting on an AIX/unix platform. I
> > have been working on unix for a good time but never came across such
> > environment, but since one of our developer has asked this question i just
> > thought if someone would have had a similar requirement, pl let me know.
> >
> > Also is the other way possible, i mean a windows application
> > executing the Unix script.
> >
> >
> > TIA
> > Praveen.K
> >
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