[Info-vax] X-terminals again

[Wilm Boerhout]

Bill Gunshannon vaguely mentioned on 14-1-2009 20:54:
> In article <496e388c$0$22133$ba620dc5 at nova.planet.nl>,
> 	Wilm Boerhout <w6.boerhout at planet.nl> writes:
>> Bill Gunshannon vaguely mentioned on 14-1-2009 18:43:
>>> 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. 
>> Maybe Shirley Honestly would, but I wouldn't touch XDM with a 10-ft 
>> pole. Unsecure, doesn't fit in with VMS intrusion detection, etc. But 
>> hey, that's me, old fashioned...
> 
> So you expect users to telnet/SSH/whatever into the VMS box and start
> X by hand?  90% of my users wouldn't now what to put after /NODE= and
> really shouldn't in this day and age.  I assume the next line creates
> one DECTerm (you'll have to p[ardon me, I haven't used that method in
> over 15 years!).  The user then has to know the commands for anything
> he wants to do and has to start each one individually?  Making a user
> do that would probably get me fired by the end of the week.

The lines I mentioned are indeed for VMS-knowledgeable people such as 
appear in this group every now and then.

In a practical user-oriented setup, they would be hidden in a login script.

/Wilm