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This is xlogin version 1.0. Giving a version number to a simple shell
script seems pretty anal, but then this whole thing appears to be that
way.
xlogin can be used to start up xterms for remote hosts with either
telnet, rlogin or rsh. I wrote it originally because I didn't like
the long, ugly lines in my hosts menu which duplicated a lot of
information just to change one or two things. A recent message in
comp.windows.x prompted me to write up a manual page, install it
for the rest of our users and offer it to anyone else out there who
wants it.
I thought about including an Imakefile but that would have been _very_
anal. Just edit the script to change the method and xpath defaults if
you want and then put it in your X bin with execute permission. Then
put the manual page in your ManDir and annouce it. Voila.
Personally, I have it installed with -rlogin as the default for two
reasons: I don't like users .rhosting all of creation so rsh always
works for them and most of them are on high-powered DEC 3100s and SS1s
so they don't need to encumber other machines with xterms.
This is covered by the GNU General Public License. In yet another
attempt to avoid even more analness I didn't include yet another copy
of COPYING.
xlogin version 1.1 -- Wed Aug 15 02:21:51 1990
Ok, I changed my mind about some things before I was ready to ship it.
Now it uses the RESOURCE_MANAGER. Really. Perhaps not in the
absolutely most robust way it could but it seems pretty flexible; this
allows the advantage of having default options for each host, making
it easier to use from the shell because for the most part you would
never need to type options. This added an AppDefaults file which is
pretty minimal.
Here's what you should do to install it: check the two defaults in
XLogin.ad and change them if need be. Check the paths in Makefile
[now reborn as Makefile-dist]. Then make.
rterm version 1.2 -- Wed Aug 15 14:47:06 1990
What changed for this version, so soon after the other one? I
discovered, just after I mailed it to Dan, that there is an
xlogin.shar.Z on expo. I personally think, tempered of course with
ego, that xlogin is a name more naturally suited to my application
than to the function of the other one; nevertheless I don't want to be
a dick about it and confuse lots of people ("Um, which xview do you
mean?") so I've changed the name. Hopefully this one isn't taken; I'm
sure someone will tell me if it is. Yes, I know it doesn't well
parallel the rsh name, as indeed the xterm could be running locally.
So what? shutdown allows -r which centers more around bringing the
system up than taking it down. :-)
Dan says I need an Imakefile and a patchlevel.h for posting so they're
there now. Feel free to mostly ignore them. Makefile-dist is much
shorter than anything imake could come up with it, though you might
need to make an edit or two to change the flags or paths.
----
Comments, suggestions, whatever to David C Lawrence <tale@rpi.edu>.