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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Chris_F_Chiesa
- From: Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: DECterm across DECnet to X Terminal
- Message-ID: <72767@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 19:04:00 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
- References: <01GSYWHD85IQ006MJF@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>
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- In a recent article whose header Portal doesn't supply for me to include here,
- Dan Wing (dwing@uh01.colorado.edu) writes:
-
- >I've got an X Terminal (VT1200, only does X with LAT), which I'm using
- >DECwindows/Motif on now.
- >
- >There's another VAX, accessible only over DECnet, that I'd like to get run
- >Bookreader from. I've tried various incarnations of SET DISPLAY,
- >CREATE/TERMINAL, and got to the point that I could get a networked login to
- >my node (it was trying to execute X$X0.COM). I messed with X$X0.COM but
- >never got a DECterm to actually display on my X Terminal that was logged
- >into the remote VAX.
- >
- >It seems, from trying to get this to work most of today, and from talking to
- >some other people, that it isn't possible because I've got an X terminal
- >(instead of a workstation, where SET DISPLAY/NODE=xx/TRANSPORT=DECNET would
- >work). I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me to quit wasting my time
- >or lead me in the right direction.
-
- Well, Dan, with the exception that I'm not actually using Motif yet, just
- plain ol' DECwindows ("XUI"), I have exactly the same configuration and
- have done what you're trying to do. It's not exactly clear to me why you're
- having trouble. First, I don't recognize X$X0.COM. What's that?
-
- Second, you're correct that the VT1200 "only does X with LAT," so
- what are you doing with /TRANSPORT=DECNET on that SET DISPLAY command?
- And shouldn't you be using /CREATE as well?
-
- You should be able to put up a Bookreader session on your "remote" node
- by starting a process on that node, through any means available -- submit
- a batch job, log in on a character-cell terminal, log in via SET HOST,
- start a job using the TASK object, you name it -- and executing the following
- two commands:
-
- $SET DISPLAY/CREATE/NODE=your_VT1200s_LAT_address/TRANSPORT=LAT
- $RUN SYS$SYSTEM:DECW$BOOKREADER
-
- I'm not at my VMS system right now so I *may* have munged the actual
- image name in the RUN command, but you get the idea... Again, I make
- no claims as to the portability of this procedure from DECwindows XUI
- to DECwindows/Motif -- but if it's any comfort I'll be in your same boat
- when we migrate, if this ISN'T portable! :-)
-
- Chris Chiesa
- Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
-