[Info-vax] X-terminals again

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <496e4484$0$22123$ba620dc5 at nova.planet.nl>,
	Wilm Boerhout <w6.boerhout at planet.nl> writes:
> 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.

In a practical user-oriented setup today they would be presented with a
login screen and never see a text interface.  :-)

bill

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