From: Andy Harper [Andy.Harper@kcl.ac.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:40 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: Hummingbird Exceed


On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:57:23 GMT "Bruce E. Haddad" <haddad@neosoft.com> 
wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> Does anybody know how to get Hummingbird Exceed on the NT to display DEC X
> Windows??  If you do, please reply via e-mail as well as posting here.


   Provided you have exceed running on your PC listening on the usual 
port (6000 by default - which is screen 0 in X parlance), then you 
simply need to do this on your VMS system from a decterminal window

  set display /create /transport=tcpip /node=<ip-address or hostname>:0

Then all subsequent x applications started from that decterm will send 
output to your exceed display.

If you want to have 'proper' DECwindows running on your PC, where 
you have the proper login screen when you connect and all the fancy 
stuff, then it's a bit more complicated. You need the following:
   a)  The VMS host must support XDMCP and it must be running
   b)  Exceed needs to be in single window mode and configured to use
       XDMCP to connect to the specific VMS host when you start.

Although it's possible to start 'proper' decwindows from a telnet 
session into the VMS host, I have never found this very satisfactory. 
In essence, you just run the decwindows manager:
   run $syst$system:....  [ sorry, forget what it's called now]

Regards,

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Andy Harper BSc, MBCS, C.Eng

Systems and Mail Manager
Kings College London