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From: peter_colby@viewlogic.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X-windows DISPLAY environment variable
Message-ID: <9007051226.AA06169@hari>
Date: 5 Jul 90 12:25:50 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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I am trying to figure out a way to automatically resolve
and set the DISPLAY environment variable when someone logs  
into one of our systems from X-terminals using telnet and rlogin.

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	I know of one way using rsh and a program from gnuemacs
(18.55) called env.

" rsh <system> /usr/local/emacs/etc/env DISPLAY=${DISPLAY} xterm &"

	On our systems, the emacs libraries (lisp, etc,info) are
kept in /usr/local/emacs. The documentation for env says that env
will set the environment as specified (DISPLAY in this case) and
then exec the specified command. The prolog in env.c has the only
documentation available as the gnuemacs developers seem to consider
env internal support only.
	This won't help telnet, I'm sorry.
	Peter C

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