[Info-vax] The Student System

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-11-02 19:18, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-11-02, bill <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 11/2/2023 12:56 PM, Martin Vorländer wrote:
>>> bill <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Getting back to VMS without black magic....
>>>>
>>>> How does one get networking up on the Student System?
>>>
>>> VSI put up a video on YouTube about this:
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf53T7i8RGs
>>
>> Thank you.  I am not a big YouTube fan (I leave that to  my grandson!)
>> but I will take a look.
>>
> 
> Anyone want to guess how many adverts poor Bill will have to sit through ?
> 
> The number of unskippable adverts on Youtube has grown to insane levels.

Agreed. It has become horrible.

>>>> And, once one does, is DECWindows on there so that one can work
>>>> from a remote X-terminal?
>>>
>>> Of course..
>>
>> And, thank you again.
>>
> 
> I don't know if you are still a xhost type person, but these days,
> I use "ssh -X" exclusively when running X11 over the network.
> 
> I have no need to run X11 where VMS is involved however, so I don't
> know if there are any VMS-specific problems with that approach.

You mean apart from the fact that it don't work? ;-)
This was discussed in a thread not long ago in this group (I think). I 
know it was discussed somewhere at least. The problem is that the ssh 
server in VMS don't know about such options, and don't hook up with X.

   Johnny