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From: zombie@voodoo.UUCP (Mike York)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: launching gl programs from the console wsh
Message-ID: <846@voodoo.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 91 22:54:38 GMT
References: <9660001@acf3.NYU.EDU>
Organization: BoGART To You Buddy, Bellevue, WA
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In article <9660001@acf3.NYU.EDU> mcqueen@acf3.NYU.EDU (David McQueen) writes:
>For the past two years I have been running graphics programs on our 4D80GT
>(currently Irix 3.3.1) employing the following piece of folklore:
>
> "never launch a graphics program from the wsh console window"

We've got 130 PI's (and until recently 23 4D/60's) in production where the 
end users routinely start up our graphics application from the console 
window.  Never had any problems that I'm aware of, and believe me, if there 
were problems, they'd let me know.  ;^)


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