Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: damerell@nsfnet-relay.ac.UK (Dr R M Damerell, RHBNC) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Request advice: DISPLAY and no of terminals off an 835 Message-ID: <9101090844.AA07830@expo.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 9 Jan 91 08:21:55 GMT Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: The Internet Lines: 9 Suppose I start an X terminal (A, say) which connects me to host B and then I rlogin to C; how can I arrange for C to determine where my terminal is so it can set DISPLAY correctly? Please does anybody have any ideas on how many terminals you can reasonably hang off a Hewlett-Packard 835? Typical applications are TEX, preview, Emacs, compile small programs. Thank you, Mark