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- From: sgi.com!pdi!shoshana@BRL.MIL (Shoshana Abrass)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: DISPLAY environment variable
- Message-ID: <32359@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 22:15:18 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
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- Being new to X, I have a basic question:
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- How do you propagate your DISPLAY variable so that you can display
- on your local screen even through multiple levels of rlogin?
- I've noticed that if you're sitting at host A and you rlogin
- to B, the REMOTEHOST variable (sgi only, I know) is set correctly
- and your DISPLAY is host A. But if you then rlogin to host C
- from B, the REMOTEHOST variable is B not A and the DISPLAY is :0.
-
- So...
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- Without REMOTEHOST, how do you carry your host's name through an
- rlogin connection? How is it done on non-sgi systems?
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- Thanks for any assistance,
-
- -shoshana
- shoshana@pdi.com
- Shoshana Abrass
- Pacific Data Images, Sunnyvale, CA
-