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- From: willis@cs.athabascau.ca (Tony Willis)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Pathworks and AIX (groan)
- Keywords: PC's, pathworks, AIX3.2
- Message-ID: <2534@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 08:11:07 GMT
- Followup-To: twillis@drao.nrc.ca
- Organization: Athabasca University
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- Hello, I hope someone can help me.
-
- I have a whole bunch of PCs which do their Internetworking with
- DEC's PATHWORKS package. The people on the PCs would like to
- establish contact with a bunch of IBM rs/6000 workstations
- and use their PCs as (un)glorified X-terminals.
-
- If you start up PATHWORKS with the dwdos option you eventually
- get some little windows which allow you to start up an
- X application on the workstation (that's the theory anyway).
- When the rs/6000s were all at AIX3.1.5 you could
- enter a command such as '/usr/bin/X11/mwm' in the Pathworks
- startup window, and lo-and-behold the motif window manager in
- the rs/6000 would establish contact with the PC and users could
- start up xterms, etc.
-
- However, since I upgraded all rs/6000s to AIX3.2 the
- ability to connect seems to have disappeared. I suspect this
- may have something to do with users having appropriate
- Xdefaults files and so on.
-
- If anybody has found the golden rule for getting PATHWORKS
- and AIX to talk to each other in X-land, could you please tell
- me the secret?
-
- Thanks for your help.
-
- Tony Willis
- twillis@drao.nrc.ca
-