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From: bochner@flare.harvard.EDU (Harry Bochner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Vanishing clients in xnews server
Message-ID: <5643@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 91 22:09:05 GMT
References: <1207@culhua.prg.ox.ac.uk> <9672@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>
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In article <9672@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>, dan@scooter.rosemount.com (Dan
Messinger) writes:
 > In article <1207@culhua.prg.ox.ac.uk>, mason@robots.ox.ac.uk (Ian Mason)
 > writes:
 > |> There seems to be a problem with our X/NeWS server. Clients like
 > |> cmdtools and xterms disappear sometimes when they are closed.
 > I see the same thing frequently.  I thought it was because I was using the
 > stock twm off the X11r4 tapes, but apparently not.  I am using an IPC
running
 > OS 4.1 and OW 2.0.

This used to happen to me frequently when I used the twm that originally came
with X11R4. Then someone fetched a newer twm (version 4.1?) from MIT, and the
problem has largely vanished. So I recommend looking for a newer version
of twm.

Harry Bochner
bochner@das.harvard.edu