Squirrel Point of Sale Systems

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Correa [mailto:brian "at" sncr.com]
> 
> New developments.  Squirrel is one of the systems we sell.  
> For years the
> Old Squirrel communicated using RS-232 to the terminals.  The 
> new Squirrel
> for Windows NT uses Linux to communicate to the terminals.  
> We have been
> searching for a product that will accomplish what PC Anywhere 
> did for us in
> the example above.  We think VNC will do it.  My 18 year old 
> little brother
> has good experience with Linux (More than anyone in my 
> office).  He brought
> his PC to our office and we tried to use VNC to see what the 
> operator was
> doing on the Squirrel Terminal.  But all we could do was 
> bring up another X
> window, not the one that is running the Squirrel Application.  Any
> advice??????

Have a look at the next sites. For your situation, I bet the first one fit's
your needs, the second one is an alternate.

http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/
If you use the XFree86 Xserver: gives access to :0


http://www.hexonet.de/software/x0rfbserver/
If your Xserver uses the framebuffer device: gives access to :0

> 
> Here are some notes from my brother - his e-mail is 
> prelag "at" intermind.net
> Tell them that the terminals boot off of internal network 
> cards and load
> their system files off of the Windows NT machines hard drive. 
> They have no
> internal disk space. We need to put VNC server on that shared 
> portion of
> disk and have the terminals execute it. Also, when we ran VNC 
> server on my
> PC it created a virtual X screen that wasnt viewable by my 
> PC. The only way
> we could view it was using the vnc viewer over the network.  
> We are trying
> to see screen:0.0 from the linux machine with a vnc viewer on another
> machine.
> 
> Brian Correa
> Account Manager
> Sierra Nevada Cash Register
> 3065 E. Post Road
> Las Vegas, NV 89120
> Ph:702.795.0700  Fx:702.795.7597
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