NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/sys/sgi/18711

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From: [e-mail] (Ed Sternin)
Subject: Re: Help: problems with remote mailbox
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Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:19:31 GMT
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Running mailbox on the remote machine and sending output to a local
display is much less satisfactory than running mailbox locally and
only accessing the remote mail file.

One solution to my problem is to NFS mount the remote file(system)
and make it look like a local file(system).  Since I am only interested
in one file, it seems excessive.  Also, SGI charges extra for NFS, and
not all my machines have it at the moment.

Still, there is a problem:  there is no place to specify env GLRES="..."
in the following :

  /usr/bsd/rsh B.B '/usr/sbin/mailbox -S B.B -m "/usr/sbin/xwsh -display A.A:0 \
     -e /usr/local/bin/pine"'

I tried several combinations (placement and quotes), to no avail.  Everything
works, except I have to place the mailbox icon on A.A:0 screen manually.

I even created .Xdefaults file(s) on both machines, containing
  *mailbox*geometry: 99x90-0+350
(identical on both), no effect.

Anybody has any ideas?   Thanks.

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