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- From: brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner)
- Subject: Re: Pathworks and AIX (groan)
- Organization: University of Western Ont, London
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:43:32 GMT
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- In article <2534@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>, willis@cs.athabascau.ca (Tony Willis) writes:
- > 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
-
- Disclaimer: I do not run Pathworks here. However, I am beginning
- to manage aix rs/6000 systems. From this limited background, I
- humbly suggest that since the problem began with the aix 3.2 upgrade,
- *that* is likely your problem.
-
- This theory is supplemented by a "ship-load" of PTF's against 3.2.
- (Have you also posted to comp.unix.aix?) You may also want to ftp
- to ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com (192.35.233.1) and look in the pub/ptfs
- directory. Last I looked, there was a file (name eludes me, but it
- is obvious) listing ptfs as of specific dates. (It is a big file.)
- Last date was just before Christmas (Dec 21?).
-
- I suggest you follow-up with IBM. b.
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