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From: jjd@bbn.com (James J Dempsey)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Remote xterm strategy
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Date: 8 Jan 90 18:28:01 GMT
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For people interested in using "Method 2" (rsh otherhost xterm) you
might check out the "xon" script on tape-2 in
contrib/clients/scripts/xon.sh.  It works no matter what type of shell
you run on the local host or the remote host.  It is careful not to
leave any bogus zombie processes around.  It does an automatic xhost
to the other system and it provides a -debug option which allows you
to see any errors that might have occurred (which you wouldn't see
normally because of redirecting output to /dev/null).  To use it you
say something like:

xon otherhost command arg1 arg2

Which would start up command on otherhost with arg1 and arg2 as
arguments after doing an xhost and setting DISPLAY correctly on the
remote host.

		--Jim Dempsey--
		jjd@bbn.com