Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!ns-mx!iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!deimos.cis.ksu.edu!mccall.com!tp From: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: DecWindows Under VMS Message-ID: <1991Apr30.140123@mccall.com> Date: 30 Apr 91 19:01:23 GMT Article-I.D.: mccall.1991Apr30.140123 References: <1991Apr28.022858.14554@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991Apr28.034619.20193@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <28APR91170437@eql.caltech.edu> Reply-To: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot) Organization: The McCall Pattern Co., Manhattan, KS, USA Lines: 33 In article <28APR91170437@eql.caltech.edu>, rankin@eql.caltech.edu (Pat Rankin) writes: >In newsgroup comp.windows.x, article ><1991Apr28.034619.20193@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>,\ > andreess@mrlaxd.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) writes... >>In article <1991Apr28.022858.14554@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> >yurkon@CYCVAX.NSCL.MSU.EDU writes: >>>Could anyone tell me where put, and what to name, the resource files >under >>>VMS? That is where would .xdefaults go and name.xdefaults? Does >DecWindows >>>look for the environment variables XENVIRONMENT and HOME? >> >> The name of the file is SYS$LOGIN:DECW$XDEFAULTS.DAT. (The >corresponding >> equivalent to .mwmrc is SYS$LOGIN:DECW$MWMRC.DAT.) (SYS$LOGIN is >the >> VMS logical corresponding to the Unix HOME environment variable.) > > Not quite. The location is actually ``DECW$USER_DEFAULTS:'', and >the default definition for _that_ is ``SYS$LOGIN:''. It's possible to >redefine decw$user_defaults to point somewhere else. One final wrinkle. You need to define that in decw$login.com, not your normal login.com. However, that's too late for some resource files. The Session Manager and Window Manager resource files will still be in your login directory. If anyone knows a way around that, I'm interested. BTW, don't feel bad, none of this stuff is documented, or not much. -- Terry Poot The McCall Pattern Company (uucp: ...!rutgers!ksuvax1!deimos!mccall!tp) 615 McCall Road (800)255-2762, in KS (913)776-4041 Manhattan, KS 66502, USA