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- From: adh@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
- Subject: Re: openwin and DISPLAY
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: na
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 12:25:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.122530.8309@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Sep3.181602.20133@lsil.com> <1992Sep4.113258.1884@cbnewsi.cb.att.com> <ANDYS.92Sep8165454@shlepper.sbi.com>
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- andys@flatline.sbi.com (Andy Sherman) writes:
- ">>>>> On 4 Sep 92 11:32:58 GMT, adh@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay) said:
- "
- "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????.
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- because i have an x terminal on my desk.
-
- " 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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- it does if the console is on your labserver, in your lab.
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- i don't know *which* of the openwin tools is refusing to run remotely;
- i just tried /usr/openwin/bin/openwin -- *that's* what i referred to
- above.
-
- --
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- Andrew Hay "Do not fraternize with that creature, I am trying to train him"
- a_d_hay@att.com "But that's a parrot!" "I was TALKING to the parrot..."
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