Hi Mike,
In a message of  to Asbjorn Hojmark (2:235/306.6), you 
wrote:
 AH> Actually, the nomenclature is quite consistent. The client is always the
 AH> program requesting a service of the server program. This may seem 
trange
 AH> to people used to pcs but that's because, in Unix, everything's a 
rver.
 MB> I use Unix, I like Unix, but even I'm not foolish enough to give it high
 MB> marks for consistency.
I didn't write Unix was consistent. (To make me say that would be rather 
expensive). What I meant was that the client/server terminology used in X is 
quite consistent with other uses of those phrases.
'The client' is the program (system) requesting a service of the program 
(system) fullfilling that request ('the server'). The terms client and server 
doesn't necessarily have anything to do with where the user or data is.
 MB> One of the creators of Unix was once asked what he would have done
 MB> differently if he had it to do over again, and he responded that he 
ould
 MB> have spelled "create" with an "e."
:-))
Mvh, Asbjorn Hojmark 
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