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Subject: Re: xterm
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Date: 30 Aug 90 19:15:14 GMT
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In-reply-to: drw900@anusf.anu.edu.au's message of 29 Aug 90 23:49:05 GMT


It sounds like you are trying to run an old xterm client (perhaps from
SGI's IRIX 3.2 X tape) on an R4 server.  The R4 server is pickier
about bad arguments.  Many earlier clients passed bad fields to the
server.  There are several ways to solve the problem:

	1) Upgrade to IRIX 3.3 which has newer clients.

	2) Do "xset bc" on the Sun to tell the R4 server not to
	be so persnickety.

	3) Compile MIT's X11R4 clients on the 4D.

Jim Helman
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