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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm and X ??
Message-ID: <1990Aug7.114851.3616@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
Date: 7 Aug 90 11:48:51 GMT
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greg@gagme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik) writes:

>I was trying to run Elm 2.3pl5 on X11R4 on
>a Sun 3/60 running SunOS 4.0, and I got the
>following error:

>window: Base frame not passed parent window in environment
>Cannot create base frame.  Process aborted.

This is an error report from your windowing system, not elm.  I've
not see this specific one (currently using Elm on X11R4, SunOS 4.1
on a 3/50) but in call cases it's been when I try to invoke a
windowing program on some system other than what you're connected to.