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- From: andys@flatline.sbi.com (Andy Sherman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Subject: Re: openwin and DISPLAY
- Message-ID: <ANDYS.92Sep8165454@shlepper.sbi.com>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 20:54:53 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.121811.22606@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> <1992Sep3.181602.20133@lsil.com>
- <1992Sep4.113258.1884@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: Salomon Inc
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- In-reply-to: adh@cbnewsi.cb.att.com's message of 4 Sep 92 11:32:58 GMT
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- >>>>> On 4 Sep 92 11:32:58 GMT, adh@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay) said:
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- adh> but openwin is damaged -- it won't [easily] run anywhere but the
- adh> console. i tried setting DISPLAY to the machine:0 form, and ow just
- adh> barked and died (a clean death -- i don't think it suffered much).
-
- Why would you want to do this????. Display 0 *is* the console. It
- makes no sense to run the ow server (as opposed to clients) from
- somewhere else.
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- Andy Sherman
- Salomon Inc - Unix Systems Support - Rutherford, NJ
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