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From: randy@oetl.UUCP (Randy O'Meara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: xterm(1) does work after linking pty's to /dev
Message-ID: <416@oetl1.oetl.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 89 19:58:36 GMT
References: <414@oetl1.oetl.UUCP> <1080032@hpfcmr.HP.COM>
Reply-To: randy@oetl.UUCP (Randy O'Meara)
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Co, Env. Test Lab., Santa Cruz, Ca.
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	Thanks for the reply Rocky.  The problem (as pointed out by
	Chris Steinbroner - Thanks Chris) is that xterm expects
	to find the pty master/slave pairs in /dev.  The normal
	HP-UX location for these files are /dev/ptym/* and
	/dev/pty/*.  Just ``ln'' all the master and slave pty's
	to /dev, and it works.  Now why isn't that mentioned in
	any of my documentation?

>If you change that line to "exec > $HOME/.x11log 2>&1" you will pick up
>the error message in the file ~/.x11start.  

	Good suggestion for Xwindows first-timers.  Here's what I use:
	exec >$HOME/.xstart.out 2>$HOME/.xstart.err

>errno 32 is "Broken pipe".  When I got this with X10, I think my $DISPLAY
>was set incorrectly or not exported.  You might try editting the .uwmrc
>file to change the invocation and explicitly request a display.

	Broken pipe may well have been the real error, but there was
	no error reported to stderr.  Thanks.


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