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XFree86/OS2 4.5 and DISPLAY
Christian Hennecke
2005-08-27 13:09:25 UTC
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Folks,

I just noticed something strange. In my CONFIG.SYS, I have

SET DISPLAY=local/hal9000:0

to use the faster pipe transport mechanism. However, when I type

SET DISPLAY

in an xterm, it returns:

DISPLAY=:0.0

I also noticed that Alexander Mai's htmldoc port does not like this
setting and terminates with a "Open server pipe failed" message. I have
to set DISPLAY to use TCP/IP for it to work.

Any idea why this happens?

Christian Hennecke
Frank Gießler
2005-08-29 07:27:52 UTC
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Post by Christian Hennecke
Folks,
I just noticed something strange. In my CONFIG.SYS, I have
SET DISPLAY=local/hal9000:0
to use the faster pipe transport mechanism. However, when I type
SET DISPLAY
DISPLAY=:0.0
It means the same as the line above. Xterm sets the DISPLAY variable on
its own (and the TERM variable, too).
Post by Christian Hennecke
I also noticed that Alexander Mai's htmldoc port does not like this
setting and terminates with a "Open server pipe failed" message. I have
No rc= ? No pipename?

Regards,
Frank.
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Frank Giessler
Klinikum der Universitaet Jena Tel.: +49-3641-9 32 57 80
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Christian Hennecke
2005-08-29 14:38:41 UTC
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Post by Frank Gießler
Post by Christian Hennecke
I just noticed something strange. In my CONFIG.SYS, I have
SET DISPLAY=local/hal9000:0
to use the faster pipe transport mechanism. However, when I type
SET DISPLAY
DISPLAY=:0.0
It means the same as the line above. Xterm sets the DISPLAY variable on
its own (and the TERM variable, too).
Interesting. TERM sounds reasonable to me but DISPLAY?
Post by Frank Gießler
Post by Christian Hennecke
I also noticed that Alexander Mai's htmldoc port does not like this
setting and terminates with a "Open server pipe failed" message. I have
No rc= ? No pipename?
Sorry, pipe name is \PIPE\xf86.0, rc is 3.

Christian Hennecke
Frank Gießler
2005-08-29 14:50:56 UTC
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Post by Christian Hennecke
Post by Frank Gießler
Post by Christian Hennecke
I also noticed that Alexander Mai's htmldoc port does not like this
setting and terminates with a "Open server pipe failed" message. I have
No rc= ? No pipename?
Sorry, pipe name is \PIPE\xf86.0, rc is 3.
This is an old name. Htmldoc seems to use XFree86 3.x code, either by
accident (bad LIBPATH) or on purpose (code statically linked). In the
first case you should clean up your settings, in the second case
re-compile the package.

Regards,
Frank.
--
Frank Giessler
Klinikum der Universitaet Jena Tel.: +49-3641-9 32 57 80
Biomagnetisches Zentrum Fax : +49-3641-9 32 57 72
Christian Hennecke
2005-08-29 15:57:37 UTC
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Post by Frank Gießler
Post by Christian Hennecke
Post by Frank Gießler
Post by Christian Hennecke
I also noticed that Alexander Mai's htmldoc port does not like this
setting and terminates with a "Open server pipe failed" message. I have
No rc= ? No pipename?
Sorry, pipe name is \PIPE\xf86.0, rc is 3.
This is an old name. Htmldoc seems to use XFree86 3.x code, either by
accident (bad LIBPATH) or on purpose (code statically linked). In the
first case you should clean up your settings, in the second case
re-compile the package.
Alexander probably did the latter, so the package could be used from
the command line without having to have XFree86/OS2 installed.

Christian Hennecke

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