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From: anselmo-ed@cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo)
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Subject: Re: Elm and X ??
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Date: 7 Aug 90 17:53:41 GMT
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In-reply-to: greg@gagme.chi.il.us's message of 6 Aug 90 18:55:31 GMT

>>>>> On 6 Aug 90 18:55:31 GMT, greg@gagme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik) said:

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

This is the error message you see when you try to run a SunView
program under X.  Do you have elm aliased to something like

	shelltool elm

Workarounds:  bring up the XView version of shelltool/commandtool.
	      Use xterm instead of shelltool.
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Ed Anselmo   anselmo-ed@cs.yale.edu   {harvard,cmcl2}!yale!anselmo-ed