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From: marco@buengc.BU.EDU (Marco Zelada)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Figuring out the right DISPLAY variable when you rlogin.
Message-ID: <2647@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 24 Apr 89 00:38:19 GMT
References: <19688@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: marco@buengc.bu.edu (Marco Zelada)
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In article <19688@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) writes:
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>Many X users that I've seen seem to have something like this in, for instance,
>a .login file on a big Vax, to figure out what to set their DISPLAY
>environment variable to whenever they rlogin from a workstation:

	How about the following:

 		setenv DISPLAY `hostname`:0

	hostname will return the name of the machine you are login onto.

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