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From: pha21@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Braham Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: X windows question
Keywords: GCG, Xwindows,
Message-ID: <1085@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Apr 91 11:07:40 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.162256.12561@ulrik.uio.no>
Organization: University of Keele, England
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In article <1991Apr16.162256.12561@ulrik.uio.no>, rodrigol@ulrik.uio.no (Rodrigo Lopez) writes:
> Perhaps this is the wrong newsgroup to ask this question. My problem
> is as follows:
> 
> We are running a program package on a microvax that has drivers for X windows,
> actually decwindows. We get this to work on VAXstations but not on DEC
> stations.
> Is it actually possible to run such an application over decnet from
> VAX/VMS to
> ULTRIX ????
> 

yes this is possible in the following cases :

1) you VAX/VMS machine must know that the server its talking to is a tcp/ip
connect (standard unix) and thus must communicate with it this way. this can be done via several products eg DEC's UCX etc ...

2) alternatively if you MUST run DecNet (sic) the the Ultrix machine must be running DecNet-Ultrix (very sic) and must know that the X stuff is comming on a DecNet connexion rather that tcp/ip as it would normally expect.

I've done this in the past with X-Terminals and all works okay once you've sorted things out.


braham

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