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I've put up a zipfile of the current distributed powerpoint stuff at
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<a href="http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~olson/AG/Software/NT/dppt2.zip" eudora="autourl">http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~olson/AG/Software/NT/dppt2.zip</a><br>
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<b>BIG CAVEAT about this stuff: it is barely at all release engineered...
I'm mostly releasing it because of the interest folks have in it. If
someone has some cycles for java development, I've got a ton of ideas on
how to turn it into a useful tool.<br>
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</b>You'll need PowerPoint and the microsoft java interp installed on the
machine. I've found that the clean NT4 install on the new dipslay machine
I just got works fine.<br>
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To use, unzip into a directory. <br>
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Edit config.bat to set SERVER to the hostname of the machine that will be
a server for the dppt session. <br>
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On that server, run two scripts:<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>start
registry<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>start
agserv<br>
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On the machine you are going to drive the presentation from, run:<br>
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<x-tab> </x-tab>master
full-path-to-ppt-file<br>
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Note that powerpoint wants a full path, even if you're in the same
directory. <br>
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Now here's the cool thing I just discovered. If you put the presentation
up on a website, ppowerpoint knows how to open it given a url. So, you
could do something like<br>
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<x-tab> </x-tab>master
<a href="http://www.somewhere.org/your/pres.ppt" eudora="autourl">http://www.somewhere.org/your/pres.ppt</a><br>
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On a machine that wants to watch the presentation, run<br>
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<x-tab> </x-tab>client
full-path-to-ppt-file<br>
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or <br>
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<x-tab> </x-tab>client
<a href="http://www.somewhere.org/your/pres.ppt" eudora="autourl">http://www.somewhere.org/your/pres.ppt</a><br>
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let me know if it works!<br>
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---bob</html>