NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/sys/hp/8351

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From: [e-mail] (Chan Benson)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:07:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Running HP clients on a Sun with OpenWin
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> > 1) I am unable to get HP clients (e.g.: hpterm or more importantly
> >    HP-VUE itself) to display their output
> >    on a Sun running OpenWin (version 2 or 3). If I wait long
> >    enough, however, the HP developed client eventually pops up
> >    a window on the Sun server, and works as advertised.
> >    Long enough is usually more then 10 minutes. Unfortunately,
> >    HP-VUE itself never comes up, at least not over a 3 day weekend ;-).
>
> I remember seeing this bug come by on this group a few months ago.  As I
> recall, it was a bug in the Sun server which affected Motif based
> programs run on HPs.  There was a server fix available.  There was also
> a workaround of setting the resource "*colorUse:  False".
>
> Any of those details might be wrong.  I'm just parroting what I read, so
> the memory isn't particularly vivid.

Close enough. The bug has to do with the way the Sun server responds
to requests for a non-existent selection. I've got a sample program
that you can compile and run anywhere that demos the bug. Available
upon request.

The solution is to set the resource "useColorObj" to false.

        -- Chan "Vivid Memories R Us" Benson
        [e-mail]