xdm

[Spencer Murray]

In article <3518 at lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>,
benno at lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (benno blumenthal) writes:
|> We are running IRIX 3.3, and xdm doesn't seem to support XDMCP (it is
|> awfully hard to tell why a program does not respond to a port it is
|> supposed to be listening too, so I cannot be too sure about what exactly
|> is going on).  Back in Dec90, I called the hotline, and they cheerfully
|> told me that it doesn't work.  They also said that they were not too
|> sure whether it would ever be fixed, since XDMCP only exists to talk
|> to X-terminals and SGI does not make them.
|> 
|> This was not the answer I wanted.  My question is this: has SGI fixed
|> this bug in 4.0?  Are you ever going to fix it?  Is there some alternative
|> to xdm which makes fixing xdm pointless?
|> 
|> I think it should be pretty clear that supporting x-terminals is in SGI's
|> interest -- X-terminals are useless in a vacuum, and they tend to make
|> people buy bigger and better machines so they can hook up lots of
x-terminals
|> to them.
|> 
|> Benno Blumenthal  Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia
University
|>                   Palisades NY 10964     (914) 359-2900 x350
|> 
|> internet:  benno at lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu
|> 	or benno at rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu
|> bitnet:    benno%lamont.ldgo at columbia.edu

The above-mentioned bug has been fixed and will be available in 4.0.

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