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- From: steve@pitacat.math.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen)
- Subject: Re: emacs via remote login
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.163715.22921@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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- Organization: Math Department, Case Western Reserve University
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 16:37:15 GMT
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- In article <BRUGGINK.92Aug13105217@neep.engr.wisc.edu>, bruggink@neep.engr.wisc.edu (Dennis Bruggink) writes:
- >
- > These emacs binaries work fine when I'm sitting at the (indigo) console,
- > but when I log-in via telnet using a Macintosh (which is not
- > running X window) and try to use emacs, I get the message:
- >
- > X server not responding. Check your DISPLAY environment variable.
- >
- >
- > So evidently I'm sposed to turn off X (?) or have some kind of emacs
- > config file/command, or do I have to recompile emacs, or ???
- > Thanks...
- >
-
- Try:
- emacs -nw.
-
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