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From: bgibb@cognos.uucp (Bob Gibb)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xdemo doesn't work (for me)
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Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 17:19:14 EDT
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In article <8707201637.AA16084@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> MANSFIEL@EMBL.BITNET (Niall Mansfield) writes:
>If I say
>        xdemo balls
>or indeed specify any of the demos, all I get is the message
>        file or directory not found

Specify a display as HOSTNAME:0 either on the command line or in the DISPLAY
environment variable. (HOSTNAME is the name of machine on which X server is 
running). The problem is that xdemo does not like a display specified as
'unix:0', even though other X programs do.






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