[Info-vax] Mapping a PC screen to DECWindows

[Tom Linden]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:41:56 -0800, DTL <didier.morandi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there, Happy Obamaers,
>
> I run Personal Alpha emulator on a PC, running OpenVMS 7.2 (the Alpha,
> not the PC)
>
> VMS TCTIP is 192.168.1.200
> PC is 192.168.1.11
> Emulator Interface is set to shared.
>
> Everything works fine, thanks to all of you.
>
> But one thing, I do not "remember" how to map my screen to DECwindows.
>
> I started DECwindows
> I did a $ set display/create/transport=tcpip/node=192.168.1.11
> then when I start say Mozilla, it sez
>
> Starting mozilla-bin...
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: _WSA0:
>
> I do not remember  if I should run an X11 program on the PC.
> Thanks for your help. I'll write the HOWTO later.

Run eXcursion on the PC use PuTTY on the PC to open an SSH session to
VMS and then your done.

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