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From: janssen@holmes (Bill Janssen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: DISPLAY environment variable from login(1)
Keywords: Ultrix 3.0, X11R2, uVAX II/GPX, vs2000
Message-ID: <2785@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 5 Sep 89 17:26:21 GMT
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Reply-To: janssen@holmes (Bill Janssen)
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In-reply-to: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)

Actually, using the tty information for this is an extremely fragile
option.  The server could have been started with a different display
number, or the screens could have been switched.  Some type of
meta-environment variable is really needed for this kind of situation
(multiple logins under the control of one "session").

Bill
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