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From: pcb@gator.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: RE: X on DOS
Message-ID: <864@gator.usl.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 90 05:13:38 GMT
Organization: CACS, Lafayette, LA, USA
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>On  Thu, 1 Feb 90 21:19:24 GMT  "Peter C. Bahrs"
><samsung!rex!rouge!gator!pcb@THINK.COM> writes:
>
>> Has anyone tried (successfully) to get IBM's X Windows for DOS
>> working?  This is the one where the PC basically becomes ax X
>> terminal.
>> When I invoke xondos and telnet to an IBM RT, I invoke aixterm &, exit
>> and I see "socket reset" flash on the screen.  Then I get an X
>> background and nothing happens.
>>
>try:
>telnet othermachine
>..normal logon...
>nohup aixterm dosmachine:0 &
>exit
>xondos   (after a short wait you should get an X display)
>aixwm &
>Your problem may be in failing to get the name:display of the
>dos machine correct when invoking aixterm.

This works ok.  I found out that the pci servers on the RT had a bug.
IBM sent a patch and it worked. 
HOWEVER, as in but, after a non-deterministic amount of time the PC hangs.
The screen is still there.  The processes are still listed on the RT 
(i.e. aixterm , aixwm, xclock...).  But the communications are stopped.
No beeps or warning.  In fact Ctrl-Alt-F10 will no longer terminate
the PC side?  My documentation for this product (a readme file) makes
no reference to this problem.

Has anyone else seen this problem?

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