[comp.windows.x] xdemo doesn't work

MANSFIEL@EMBL.BITNET (Niall Mansfield) (07/20/87)

If I say

        xdemo balls

or indeed specify any of the demos, all I get is the message

        file or directory not found

Am I missing some files, or what?  The only things with
"demo" in their pathname are

        man/xdemo.1
        xdemo/*.clu
        xdemo/xdemo.xload
        xdemo/xdemo.xfile
        exe.v10/xdemo

(It would be nice to get this going, to redeem myself after
offering to show somebody the nice demos that came with X,
adn looking a complete nit).

Thanks,

Niall

ps: I'm using the v10r4 release, on a Sun-3.

dana@faline.bellcore.com (Dana A. Chee) (07/21/87)

In article <> MANSFIEL@EMBL.BITNET.UUCP writes:
>
>If I say
>
>        xdemo balls
>
>or indeed specify any of the demos, all I get is the message
>
>        file or directory not found
>
>Am I missing some files, or what?
>
>Niall
>
>ps: I'm using the v10r4 release, on a Sun-3.

the OBSCURE line to make this work is 'xdemo localhost:0 balls'. 
Don't ask me why since I don't know anything about CLU (which is
what xdemo is written in) but thanks to Stuart (smarks@sun.com) for
providing me with the answer when I tried to run it.
      
         
     
 
    
     
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bgibb@cognos.uucp (Bob Gibb) (07/31/87)

In article <8707201637.AA16084@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> MANSFIEL@EMBL.BITNET (Niall Mansfield) writes:
>If I say
>        xdemo balls
>or indeed specify any of the demos, all I get is the message
>        file or directory not found

Specify a display as HOSTNAME:0 either on the command line or in the DISPLAY
environment variable. (HOSTNAME is the name of machine on which X server is 
running). The problem is that xdemo does not like a display specified as
'unix:0', even though other X programs do.






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