- RMIF Overview
  - RMIF:
    - Stands for Remote Midas InterFace
    - Allows Midas resources (results, messages, pipes,...) to be shared between different Midas sessions on (possibly) different computers.
    - Designed for "slow, high latency, unreliable" network links.
    - Has a primitives written in C/Fortran for X-Midas and Java for NeXtMidas.
      - NOTE: Not all features in the Java (like plot compression) have corresponding C/Fortran implementations.
    - Can be run in various client/server combinations:

          NeXtMidas <--> NeXtMidas
          NeXtMidas <--> X-Midas
          X-Midas   <--> X-Midas

    - For more details, please check out:
      - The RMIF Section of the NeXtMidas User's Guide
      - The RMIF explain file.
    - The X-Midas sd360.txt and NeXtMidas sd360.mm macros serve as an example usage of RMIF.

  Java Experts Take Note:
  RMIF does not use Java's Remote Method Invocation (RMI) and any similarities are conceptual only.