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From: joltes@husc9.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec
Subject: DECwindows:  creating remote displays
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Date: 27 Sep 90 14:59:22 GMT
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A question for the DECwindows gurus out there...

I run most of my applications on my trusty(?) VS2000 but have access to some
more powerful (i.e. 8550 running VMS and 5400 running Ultrix) servers.  So I'd
like to start remote sessions on those nodes and pop the displays back to my
workstation.  VMS is easy, but the standard method is to create a DECterm, set
host to the target node, and do

$ set display/create/node=xxxxxx
$ <invoke application>

which seems a pain.  Has anyone worked up an easier way (i.e. local .exe or
comfile that will establish the session and start up the application)? 

Ultrix is trickier.  I access this system using a Multinet TELNET session, and
the only method I've found in TFM uses UCX.  Anyone done this successfully 
using Multinet (or DECnet/Ultrix)?  

Ideally what I'd like is a scheme by which when I log in all the apps I want
(even the remote ones) are in my customize settings to start automatically.
If I have to provide passwords, it's o.k.

Oh, I'm running VMS 5.3-1 and Ultrix 4.0...

Thanks in advance,

Dick Joltes					joltes@husc9.harvard.edu
Mgr. of Hardware & Facilities
Harvard University Science Center