[Info-vax] X-terminals again

[tadamsmar]

On Jan 14, 12:43 pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> In article <496e22d2$0$22127$ba620... at nova.planet.nl>,
>         Wilm Boerhout <w6.boerh... at planet.nl> writes:
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> > tadamsmar vaguely mentioned on 13-1-2009 22:15:
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> > ¨snip*
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> >>> 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.
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> >> 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.
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> >> Should I add that line to startup or not?
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> > 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.
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> > 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
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> > $ SET DISP /CREATE [/PERM] /NODE=<yournode> /TRANSP=TCPIP
> > $ CREATE /TERM /DETACHED
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> > from your remode node, and the X-terminal window will appear.
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> 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.
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> bill
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How would I use XDM?