[comp.windows.x] Request advice: DISPLAY and no of terminals off an 835

damerell@nsfnet-relay.ac.UK (Dr R M Damerell, RHBNC) (01/09/91)

Suppose I start an X terminal (A, say) which connects me to host B and then
I rlogin to C; how can I arrange for C to determine where my terminal is
so it can set DISPLAY correctly?

Please does anybody have any ideas on how many terminals you can reasonably
hang off a Hewlett-Packard 835? Typical applications are TEX, preview, 
Emacs, compile small programs. 

Thank you, Mark

gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea) (01/10/91)

    Suppose I start an X terminal (A, say) which connects me to host B and then
    I rlogin to C; how can I arrange for C to determine where my terminal is
    so it can set DISPLAY correctly?


Lobby your vendor to supply a telnet that supports "X Display Location"
option negotiation (per RFC 1096).

 < Stephen