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Date:      Sat, 19 Mar 2016 09:45:23 -0453.75
From:      "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
To:        FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Problems w/ mgdiff across my LAN
Message-ID:  <56ED64B9.2000300@hiwaay.net>

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I am trying to use mgdiff (from ports) to look for differences between 2 
ASCII files (ANSI C, actually). I am logged into the box where the files 
reside from this box, running FreeBSD 9.3R, patched up:

[wam@kabini1, ~, 9:40:46am] 488 % uname -a
FreeBSD kabini1.local 9.3-RELEASE-p33 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p33 #0: Wed 
Jan 13 17:55:39 UTC 2016 
root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
[wam@kabini1, ~, 9:40:47am] 488 %

On the other box (also FBSD 9.3R, I get:

[wam@devbox, Vector, 9:36:54am] 734 % xdiff main.c  Main.c
Error: Can't open display: localhost:11.0
[wam@devbox, Vector, 9:37:04am] 735 % which xdiff
xdiff:   aliased to mgdiff -args -wB
[wam@devbox, Vector, 9:37:17am] 736 % uname -a
FreeBSD devbox 9.3-RELEASE-p33 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p33 #0: Wed Jan 13 
17:55:39 UTC 2016 
root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
[wam@devbox, Vector, 9:37:27am] 737 %

I ssh-ed into the other box (devbox) from this box (kabini1) under tcsh 
in an rxvt shell. I have been having variations of this problem for a 
while, but worked around it by cd-ing to the remote dir from this box & 
then mgdiff-ing. I can do that here as well, but that is clumsy & I 
suspect that there is a simple bit of pilot error causing this issue, 
which I would like to fix :-). Any clues appreciated. TIA & have a good one.


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	William A. Mahaffey III

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	"The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
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