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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Allan,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>We have been using RPPT for a while now, and honestly I can most of our issues have come from stress testing it. At first glance it seems to work well, and is much better than Distributed PowerPoint, but we have had issues where the server will just disconnect or a client won't be able to connect and then the server needs to be restarted and so on. There also seems to be an issue with having spaces in the filenames. Despite the documentation, we have been able to push it a little and run multiple clients and servers and clients on the same machine using different ports, to try to create seamless transitions from presenting to viewing and vice versa. This does eventually cause problems where both stop working and need to be restarted :)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>There just seems to be too many complications and worries around showing a powerpoint file and for normal users to operate. It would be great if it could somehow be as simple as it is to view a slide show, or even have it in a VIC window somehow as a high res video feed.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Anthony</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Allan Spale [<A HREF="mailto:aspale@evl.uic.edu">mailto:aspale@evl.uic.edu</A>] </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 6:19 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: Milinowicz, Anthony [NCSUS]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Cc: 'ag-tech@mcs.anl.gov'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] PowerPoint in AG 2.0</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Anthony,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>The next version of Distributed Powerpoint called Remote PowerPoint (RPPT)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>is available and in my opinion seems stable enough for download and usage</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>(note, I have not really stress-tested it yet...but it seems to work</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>well).</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Some nice features include using GUI for setup (no more config file) and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>embedded animations and video are permitted in slides.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Boston University had a seminar on RPPT many times already. You can view</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>the slides at: <A HREF="http://scv.bu.edu/accessgrid/seminars/archives.html" TARGET="_blank">http://scv.bu.edu/accessgrid/seminars/archives.html</A>.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Allan</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>EVL@UIC</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>node-op</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Milinowicz, Anthony [NCSUS] wrote:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> Has anyone thought of making any changes to the current PowerPoint solution</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> for AG 2.0? The current way of using this seems generally unstable and not</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> user friendly. Any ideas?</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Thanks,</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Anthony Milinowicz</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Johnson & Johnson NCS</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> amilinow@ncsus.jnj.com <<A HREF="mailto:amilinow@ncsus.jnj.com">mailto:amilinow@ncsus.jnj.com</A>> </FONT>
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