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Re: HotJava to a remote display?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Shaver)
Fri Jun 2 13:47:13 1995

From: Mike Shaver <shaver@neon.ingenia.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 23:05:15 -0400 (EDT)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM

Ward Harold mumbled something vague about:
> 
> Does hotjava understand the X -display command line argument? Please say yes
> otherwise I've got to find room on my desk for the Sparc box sitting in the
> cold frozen lab.
> 
> ... WkH
> 
> [Moderator: Sorry, it doesn't, at least in alphas 2 and 3.]

It does, however, support the $DISPLAY variable.
I've succesfully exported it from a Solaris 2.3 machine to my Linux
box (X11R6).  Some of the graphics are a bit odd, but it's quite
usable.

Mike

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