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From: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xdm and NCD X-terminal
Message-ID: <16063@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 22 Aug 89 22:08:54 GMT
References: <303@ccu.UManitoba.CA> <8908212319.AA02977@xenon.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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I wrote a program (Xfake) which looks like a server to xdm, and which
notices if an NCD is turned back on again, and causes xdm to put the
login prompt up again.  This is also handy when your terminal crashes.
But in any case, xdm doesn't like it when you turn off your NCD, and
there is no convenient way to tell any existing clients to give up.
It's a hack, but at least it lets you sign on.

It's available via anonymous ftp from expo as contrib/Xfake.shar
and crocus.waterloo.edu (129.97.128.6) as X/Xfake.shar.  But note
that we are in a slow little internet backwater, so go easy on us, ok?

John Sellens
University of Waterloo
jmsellens@dragon.waterloo.edu