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From: turner@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Steve Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X-windows DISPLAY environment varia
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Date: 5 Jul 90 18:53:47 GMT
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In-Reply-To: carroll@m.cs.uiuc.edu's message of 03 Jul 90 21:03 CDT

Since everyone seems to have a different way to do this, I thought I'd
mention the one I found in the standard X distribution:

Under .../contrib/clients/xplaces there is a sh script and man page
for 'rcmd'  The script describes itself as:

# This command runs a command remotely in the background, by pointing
# stdout and stderr at /dev/null. (Should we point stdin at /dev/null too?)
# By running this through the Bourne shell at the other end, and
# we get rid of the rsh and rshd which otherwise hand around at either
# end. Hacked from a posting by clyde@emx.utexas.edu to list.xpert

To rlogin, for example, 'rcmd remotehost xterm' works.
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