[Info-vax] X-terminals again

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <496e22d2$0$22127$ba620dc5 at nova.planet.nl>,
	Wilm Boerhout <w6.boerhout at planet.nl> writes:
> tadamsmar vaguely mentioned on 13-1-2009 22:15:
> 
> ¨snip*
> 
> 
>>> Use any X11 display server software.
>>> Put DEFINE DECW$IGNORE_WORKSTATION into the VMS SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM (that
>>> is, if VMS does not have it's own X11 graphical interface.
>> 
>> I am not sure what you mean by "if VMS does not have it's own X11
>> graphical interface."  All my units are workstations with a terminal
>> plugged it.  We need a few other X-terminals to run over the ethernet
>> on one of the workstations.
>> 
>> Should I add that line to startup or not?
> 
> This line should be put in the startup file only if you want to use an 
> external (to VMS) X11 display server, such as xCursion on a PC.
> 
> If your VMS node itself is a X11 display server (as it appears to be), 
> do not put the line in. Just point your external application to display 
> on your node. How to do that depends on what the other system is. If 
> it's also VMS, just do a
> 
> $ SET DISP /CREATE [/PERM] /NODE=<yournode> /TRANSP=TCPIP
> $ CREATE /TERM /DETACHED
> 
> from your remode node, and the X-terminal window will appear.
> 

Surely people here don't honestly expect users to actually do something
like this to run X-windows today?  Even VMS has supported XDM for quite
some time. 

bill

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