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NetProb ticket #4323, sun4 8.0B: xmitdir
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mbarker@MIT.EDU)
Wed Jun 19 10:01:35 1996
From: mbarker@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:00:57 -0400
To: testers@MIT.EDU
>From nschmidt@MIT.EDU Wed Jun 19 09:09:33 1996
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>Subject: sun4 8.0B: xmitdir
>Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 09:09:29 EDT
>From: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
>
>System name: mozart
>Type and version: SPARC/5 8.0B (1 update(s) to same version)
>Display type: cgthree
>
>What were you trying to do?
> Start up xmitdir from .startup.X with the line
>
> xmitdir -fg black -bg LightSkyBlue &
>
>What's wrong:
> The program never started up and the console window gave the message
> "Can't Open display"
>
>What should have happened:
> The program should have started. I use this application at least
> 10 times per day and am lost without it. (Although I know that
> I can always use the finger @mitdir command, this is nowhere near
> as convenient)
>
>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
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