[ale] Re: [ale-expo] other demos

[R I Feigenblatt]

>	Another good fringe package that should be highlighted is the
>	X10(?) stuff. This is a package that interfaces to home automation
>	controllers. I believe there is even an GUI interface and a dialup
>	daemon that lets you do stuff remotely. Let see Win-95/NT do
>	something like that!

David C. Snyder has written me to say:
"This remote management capability was the point of Steve's post, but you
were so busy plugging Microsoft that you missed it."

I apologize. I wrongly assumed everyone reading this list knew the following,
and so made my previous post on this subject more concise than I should have.
        There are NUMEROUS third-party packages that allow remote control of
        DOS or Windows machines. People condemn Microsoft for feebleness if
        they don't integrate a feature into the OS and then they condemn it
        for megalomania when they do; what's a company to do? By the way, free
        tools (made available in 1993) for WfW 3.11 let it support sockets and
        networked DDE, Win95 adds RPC and NT 4.0 will add networked OLE.

Thanks David! :-)
Ron Feigenblatt