Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!midway!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!ALEXANDER.BBN.COM!gildea From: gildea@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM (Stephen Gildea) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: rlogin and the DISPLAY variable Message-ID: <9010172019.AA25898@expo.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 17 Oct 90 20:20:23 GMT Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: The Internet Lines: 9 Use xon (distributed with R4 in contrib/clients/scripts/), which handles passing the DISPLAY value to the remote system. In your case, you want a command line something like this: xon remotehost xterm -e vi < Stephen Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. gildea@bbn.com Cambridge, Massachusetts