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From: pte900@csc.anu.oz (Peter Elford)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: X window interface to White Pages
Message-ID: <1885.26234ff2@csc.anu.oz>
Date: 11 Apr 90 15:40:34 GMT
References: <29453.639763981@cheetah.nyser.net>
Organization: AARNet
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In article <29453.639763981@cheetah.nyser.net>, mrose@CHEETAH.NYSER.NET (Marshall Rose) writes:
> Hi.  Some time ago I sent a note to the list introducing the
> NYSERNet/PSI White Pages Pilot Project (a large, distributed white pages
> service spanning multiple administrations).  I am pleased to announce
> that we have added a new service for anonymous use: X window access to
> the White Pages.
> 
> The "xwp" application displays the portions of the white pages you find
> "interesting", allowing you to both search the white pages and browse:
> by clicking on an entry, you can find out about it's children or about
> the entry itself.

And it works well.

> 2. You will be asked if X window access is desired.  If so, you enter
> the name of your X display.  This should be something like
> IP-address:0.0, e.g.,
> 
> 	192.33.44.20:0.0

Sometimes you don't get the prompt for your display IP address and get 
dropped into the old line-mode wp server. Why is it so ?

Peter Elford,                           	e-mail: P.Elford@aarnet.edu.au
Network Co-ordinator,	 			phone: +61 6 249 3542
Australian Academic Research Network,		fax: +61 6 247 3425
c/o, Computer Services Centre,			post: PO Box 4
Australian National University			      Canberra 2601
Canberra, AUSTRALIA