Run remote UNIX programs locally

Sep 24, '02 08:25:08AM

Contributed by: area51

My university has Matlab installed on unix boxes. I wanted to be able to log into my school account and run matlab with graphical output on my laptop. After some trial and error a friend of mine figured out that all you have to do is add a -X tag to the ssh login command like this:

 % ssh -X  -l username
Now all the graphs show up on my local desktop. Of course, you have to be doing this via XDarwin. This may be obvious to a UNIX veteran but I thought it would save other less experienced users some time.

And, yes I realize there's an OSX version of Matlab, but if your university already has it, why spend the money?

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