--- You wrote:
I'm not totally sure about this, but I believe that you would have an 
xserver on your computer, which would connect to the remote host and run 
one of the xprograms, which would be an xclient.  Right?
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this is exactly what mac x and eXodus are and do, and this is exactly what
xiamin said he was looking for d:) looks like mr. bushong (i think it was him)
was right in the first place.