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From: robert@texas.esd.sgi.com (Robert Skinner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: workspace comments
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Date: 9 Jul 90 17:14:36 GMT
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In article <9007091749.AA27450@mcirps2.med.nyu.edu>,
karron@MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU writes:
|> 
|> Sorry for this terse note, but I am heads down busy on this project. Before
|> I forget these notes, I thought it better to telegraph them to you.
|> 
|> 1) Workspace whould not fire up when you log in from a tty line even if
|> it is in your profile. How can I check in my .login script that 1) it it
|> is not running already ? or 2) That I am not connected to a window server ?.
|> 
|> If you kill workspace (for various reasons) and reopen a wsh window,
|> how can you keep it from restarting ?.
|> 
|> For development work, a developers environment mode or script would
be apprecica
|>    ted.
|> 

Start up workspace from your user.ps, not your .login.
That will eliminate both of your problems.

Robert Skinner
robert@sgi.com

	It is better to burn out than to fade away.