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From: fkittred@bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Decnet, VMS <==> Ultrix connection questions
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Date: 3 Apr 89 11:56:20 GMT
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In article <521@mmlai.UUCP> burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio) writes:
>
>The CMU package does not work well to my Hewlett Packard.  For some reason it
>hangs up remote logins if they become inactive for a time.  The Wolongong
>and Excellan products work better, but will not pass the ^C through to stop
>output from tying up the screen (use lots of | less :-)
>
Hum, could it be that you don't have the C shell enviromental variable
"autologout" set to zero?  We had a similar problem here with Ultrix
to HP systems until we found this feature.

>By the by, it's X Windows, not DECwindows...

There is no such thing as "X Windows", there is X, X11, the "X Window System",
but no "X Windows".  The one thing that the X Consortium asks is
that you do not call their contribution "X Windows"...

regards,
fletcher

Fletcher E. Kittredge  fkittred@bbn.com