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From: klee@gilroy.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Problems running motif from Ultrix onto a VMS workstation.
Message-ID: <1820@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 15 Sep 89 01:12:17 GMT
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In article <100920112@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>, ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin
Ellsworth) writes:
> > 3) setenv DISPLAY to <nodename>::0.0
> 
> has one too may colons in it.

Actually, this is correct.  According to Scheifler et al's DP book (p.
11), UNIX clients should specify DECnet connections by using 2 colons.

I suspect that the original poster's problem has to do with setting the
list of allowed hosts on the machine running the server.  Is that
server initialized when you try to connect to it?

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
Internet: klee@decwrl.dec.com
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