NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/sys/sun/apps/2487

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From: [e-mail] (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: AnswerBook with X11r5??
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Date: 16 Nov 92 16:46:19 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Guy Harris) writes:
|>
|> >(ever try to wrestle with CD Manager under mwm and the "real" X server?)
|>
|> If that's the CD Manager that comes with various Sun CD-ROMs, the
|> problem probably has nothing to do with "mwm"; it has to do with the
|> fact that the application checks to see whether it's running under an
|> environment that can support it by checking whether it's running on top
|> of the X11/NeWS server, as I remember (it checks for the "NEWSSERVER"
|> environment variable, or something such as that).  The damn thing should
|> use some other technique for figuring out if the environment can support
|> it, if it doesn't use NeWS.

   I don't know what the problem you are having is, but I've used
the cdmanager with tvtwm and the MIT R5 server and never had any problems.
It certainly doesn't check which server is actually running.

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Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
    SIC/SII, EL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse, [phone]
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