thp@westhawk.UUCP ("Timothy H Panton.") (11/02/90)
I have a pc with X on it and a VMS VAX with UCX and DecWindows. How do I get them to talk ? I'm looking for the equivalent of setenv DISPLAY hepc:0.0 and possibly a rune or two to get it to use TCP/IP. (Telnet works fine). Thanks in advance. Tim. Ps, RTFM's accepted, but they are on the other end of a 64kbit link just now. T.
kpt@ibism.UUCP (Kevin Tyson) (11/03/90)
In article <9011011745.AA00172@westhawk.uucp>, thp@westhawk.UUCP ("Timothy H Panton.") writes: > > I have a pc with X on it and a VMS VAX with UCX and DecWindows. > How do I get them to talk ? > I'm looking for the equivalent of > setenv DISPLAY hepc:0.0 > and possibly a rune or two to get it to use TCP/IP. (Telnet works fine). > Thanks in advance. > Tim. > > Ps, RTFM's accepted, but they are on the other end of a 64kbit link just now. > T. $ SET DISPLAY/CREATE/NODE=<your pc node name>/TRANSPORT=TCPIP $ CREATE/TERMINAL/DETACH The above two lines will create a DreckTerminal window on you pc. I do something similar after I rlogin from my sun to our VAXStation. To bring up the desktop utilities try the following commands: $ CREATE/TERMINAL MCR VUE$MASTER This creates file view. $ CREATE/TERMINAL MCR DECW$MAIL This creates a DreckWindows mail session. $ CREATE/TERMINAL LSE/DISPLAY=DECWINDOWS This creates an editing session window. $ CREATE/TERMINAL MCR DECW$BOOK This creates a book reader window. I have found that running the X client of the book reader on the SS1+ is significantly faster then running it on the 3100. One thing you will find is that DEC uses private fonts in some of these utilities which will cause them to die when you create them. The quick fix I have found is to take a bdf fixed font from the R4 distribution, edit the header so that the name matches what the DEC software is expecting, bdftosnf, mkfontdir, xset fp+ and presto the DEC software is happy. I still have two problems. The first is quite minor. When I attempt to use the menus in VUE$MASTER I get the following errors on SYS$OUTPUT: and nothing visual happens on the XClient side. The second problem is somewhat more bothersome. I cannot seem to create XClients on the Vax from the Sun or our Ultrix box. TFM says to use the security entry in the customization menu of the session manager to specify node, username and transport. I have tried TCPIP * * and TCPIP node user, the latter requires hand editing the file as the utility converts node and user to upper case. Neither works. Each results in the Can't open display error on the unix side. If you, or anyone else knows how to use UCX so that the XClient is on the Vax side I'd greatly appreciate hearing about it. Likewise for any documentation on the widget hierarchy used in the DEC desktop utilities. Errors: