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From: bob@osu-eddie.UUCP
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Subject: Re: MAKEHOSTS - with xterms!
Message-ID: <3502@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-May-87 16:48:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  6 16:48:52 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 8-May-87 05:28:40 EDT
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Keywords: rXcmd
Summary: put the client in its place

In article <8705052221.a004255@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk> lmjm@doc.ic.ac.UK writes:
> ... A little shell script that does (effectively)
>	xterm -n "rlogin:remotehost" -e remotehost ...
> ...
>#! /bin/sh
>MC=`basename $0 | sed "s/^x//"`
>/usr/new/xterm -n "rlogin:$MC" -e $MC $*
> ...
>UKUUCP SUPPORT  Lee McLoughlin

I've noticed a lot of people do the sort of thing you suggest.  But
why not run the xterm (or any other) client on the remote host where
it belongs?  If you can rlogin to a host, then you can rsh on it,
which means you can have a little script called something like `rXcmd'
so you can say

	rXcmd host /usr/local/xterm

or, if you use GNU Emacs and want the full X interface,

	rXcmd host /usr/local/emacs

What is rXcmd?  It looks like:
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#!/bin/sh
# rXcmd (suggested by John Robinson, jr@bbn.com)
case $# in
[01])	echo "Usage: $0 host X-cmd [args...]";;
*)	host="$1"; shift
	xhost "$host"
	rsh "$host" -n "(setenv TERM xterm; setenv DISPLAY `hostname`:0; $*)" &
	;;
esac
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Thanks, John, for this nifty little bit.  It's the Right Way.
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 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
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