alex@sapphire.idbsu.edu (Alex Feldman) (12/03/90)
I have an HP9000-400t serving 4 400dl's, running HPUX 7.03 with HP's X11R4. When I want to open up an xterm on some nearby Decstations, on which I have an account, I do it with remsh kanaha xterm -display garnet:0 & where kanaha is the decstation and garnet is the 400 where I am sitting. The very same command, directed at one of the other 400's and run in the foreground so as to see standard error, returns an error xterm: usage ... where what follows is a list of the options, not including -display, seeming to indicate that xterm does not support this option (which it does). Every conceivable variety of quoting and escaping has not altered the situation. Now for the odd part. Desperate, I put a file containing the one line xterm -display garnet:0 in my path, and then executed remsh opal foo & Where foo was the name of the aforementioned file and opal is one of the other 400's. Shazam. Worked great. So I guess I have a suitable workaround, and I shouldn't complain. But I'm complaining anyway... is it HP-UX (always suspect) or is it me (more so)? Has anyone else run into this problem? On a totally different subject, has anyone out there installed xfig on these beasts? It seems like the widget libraries are so different from MIT's that it would take a lot of hacking. Part of my problem may be a poor imake, but I have been having a lot of trouble wresteling with that as well. -- --alex alex@kanaha.idbsu.edu or if that fails, try alex@sapphire.idbsu.edu
thomas@hpugrca.HP.COM (Thomas Buenermann) (12/04/90)
Check if /usr/bin/X11/xterm is executed, or /usr/bin/xterm, the X10 version (use type in [k]sh). Regards, Thomas