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From: ghe@physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He)
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Subject: Re: "Exit" from mwm
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Date: 27 Mar 91 04:08:55 GMT
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In article <IVAN%NEPJT.91Mar26164323@nepjt.ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, ivan%nepjt@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Ivan Maldonado) writes:
|> 
|> John & Others,
|> 
|> The above procedure will work so long you start "X" through the command:
|> 
|> open xinit
|> 
|> This supposedly sets all the "X" processes under the parent process
|> "mwm", so that the "f.quit_mwm" step will kill all its "X" babies.
|> It works just fine on our risc's..
|> 
|> -Ivan
|> 

But 'open' doesn't work on X-Stations. It complaints that /dev/pts/?
is not the console or an hft workstation, although the man page says
nothing about 'open' works only on console. 

Guangliang He
ghe@physics.orst.edu