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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

is a small http server to be executed on the presenter's notebook computer. It lets audience read MagicPoint presentation foils on her notebook computers, over the net. When a presenter performs a presentation, she should invoke instead of with the same argument. will become an http server running on tcp port 9999 (by default), and invokes as a child process. By accessing URL audience will be able to read the MagicPoint window currently displayed on the presenter's notebook. The webpage provided by is designed in "client pull" manner; audience's notebook will reload the page, several times a minute. If no option is specified, will print the URL to be accessed by the audience to the standard output. This is useful for indicating the URL to be accessed on the presentation, like: %filter "mgpnet" %endfilter

TODO

Be network conscious. Current implementation is too naive about CPU/network usage. Presenter's notebook may be overloaded if there's too many audiences.

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HISTORY

was created by Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@itojun.org>, on the day before the newyear's eve, 1997.


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