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exporting xterms



Today, Anthony J. Gabrielson gleaned this insight:

> Jerry,
> 	I kept playing with it, and I got it to work.  I actually had to
> set the enviroment with an export DISPLAY ip:0.0 - I was suprised.  With
> IRIX and other version of UNIX &  linux in the past I only needed to do an
> xterm -d ip:0.0. I actually just confirmed that I could do that with my
> Irix box at work. Thats real agrivating.

This should work on linux too, except you need to switch "-d"
with "-display" for the same function. I seem to recall that the -d did
work once... no idea when it stopped.


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