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From: dalka@cbnewsc.att.com (kenneth.j.dalka)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: How do you get the IP addr for the DISPLAY var?
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.144934.13473@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 3 Apr 91 14:49:34 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I'm using an X windowing terminal with a UNIX system V machine and I'd like
to set the DISPLAY variable automatically from a shell script (or C program).
The problem is that I'd like to make it terminal independent. Rather that
setting some pre determined IP address in my .profile, I'd like to be able
to walk down the hall and log on with some other terminal if need be. The
only way I can see that this would work is if I could somehow ask UNIX
what my IP address is. It must know because I can login and talk to unix
before I get to X. If UNIX can send characters back to me, then it knows
where I am. But I can't find any place in UNIX where the info is stored.

PS. I don't want some dumb shell to ask me to type in my IP as I login.
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					Ken Dalka (Bell Labs)
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