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Date:      Fri, 20 Oct 1995 17:33:05 EST
From:      "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
Cc:        hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Netscape puzzle 
Message-ID:  <199510202133.RAA05549@exalt.x.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 20 Oct 1995 15:22:17 EST. <199510202122.PAA15970@rocky.sri.MT.net> 

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> > Here's something weird. I'm not looking for an answer or a fix.
> 
> I'll give you one anyway.
> 
> > >From work, if I rsh to my box and run netscape 2.0b1 with the display set 
> > to a machine here at work, I get an "unable to open display" error. With
> > netscape 1.1 it runs for several seconds and then takes the PPP connection 
> > down. This has occured each and every time I've tried it.
> 
> Why it's taking your connection out, I don't know but I've found that
> the Netscape versions >= 1.1 I've run on both SunOS and FreeBSD require
> me using the IP address instead of the hostname if I want to use remote
> hosts.

I had tried that and it didn't make any difference with the BSD 2.0b1, 
I still got an "unable to open display" error. :-(

--

Kaleb KEITHLEY



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