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From: galvin-peter@cs.yale.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: problems connecting to a remote server
Message-ID: <61315@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 89 14:31:08 GMT
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Reply-To: galvin-peter@CS.YALE.EDU (Peter Baer Galvin)
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT  06520-2158
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We put the following change into lib/X/XConnDis.c to solve this
problem.  Unfortunately we then had to relink all of our clients for
it to take effect.  Alternately we found we could specify the host
number in the DISPLAY variable rather than the hostname and all the
programs would run correctly.


diff  -r1.1 XConnDis.c
192c192,197
<               hostinetaddr = inet_addr (displaybuf);
---
> /* Yale - HML - don't depend on this to fail with -1 if not a host number */
>               if ( ( *displaybuf >= '0') && (*displaybuf <= '9' ) )
>                       hostinetaddr = inet_addr (displaybuf);
>               else
>                       hostinetaddr = -1;
>


					      --Peter

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Peter Baer Galvin       		      (203)432-1254
Senior Systems Programmer, Yale Univ. C.S.    galvin-peter@cs.yale.edu
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New Haven, Ct   06457			      galvin-peter@yalecs.bitnet