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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