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From: marra@samuel.enet.dec.com (Dave Marra)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: DecWindows Under VMS
Message-ID: <1991May1.124240.29978@e2big.mko.dec.com>
Date: 1 May 91 12:42:40 GMT
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>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.

The only way around it is to redefine it when the system boots in the
system logical
name table. If your the only user *EVER* then this should be ok,
otherwise it
could be 'yucky'.

						.dave.

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