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- From: nrf@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (neal.r.fildes)
- Subject: Re: MacX and HP-VUE
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:22:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.192234.27289@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- References: <kjq-171192121156@mac009.physio.nwu.edu>
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- From article <kjq-171192121156@mac009.physio.nwu.edu>, by kjq@plato.nwu.edu (Kevin Quinn):
- > I'm trying to get a Macintosh running MacX to act as an HP-VUE terminal
- > across the network to our Model 730 workstation and I need some help. The
- > Mac is hooked up to our network via an Appletalk connection and thus
- > appears on the ethernet network via dynamic addressing so I do not have a
- > fixed IP address for this machine. My problem is how (and whether) it is
- > possible to use MacX in this configuration. From my reading of the HP X
- > manuals, I understand that in order to get a remote terminal, acting as an
- > X terminal server, to use HP VUE services I must pay attention to three
- > files: inittab, Xservers and Xconfig. Yet in the description of the
- > Xservers file it seems to indicate that I must record the actual address or
- > name of the remote terminal (which is dynamically determined). How can I
- > get around this? I also admit to being unsure what to put into the second
- > field of the record in this file (DisplayClass). Any advice or help would
- > be appreciated. I am (obviously) a novice in the world of X.
-
-
- Here is how I solved it - I stored in macX the following command line for
- execution on the HP machine:
-
- /usr/bin/X11/hpterm -display "(r)display" -iconic -ls -e /usr/lib/X11/vue/etc/vuesession
-
- where (r) is the 'registered' character. when you execute this command, the
- chosen display gets the vue environment.
-
- Hope this helps.
- (this way you don't have to mess around with the configuration of the system
- itself)
-
- Neal R. Fildes
- AT&T Bell Labs
-