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To: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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        Hellmuth Michaelis <hm@altona.hamburg.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: xforms maintenance tools (was Re: Tcl/Tk sysinstall) 
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From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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>>> Nate Williams said:
 > invalid opcode writes:
 > > On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote:
 > > 
 > > > in both character mode and under X. In case i do local systems managemen
     t
 > > > i'll use the X version, remote i can easily use the character based one.
      It
 > > > saved (not only) us countless thousands of kilometers travelling ....
 > > 
 > > Of course, there always is that little DISPLAY variable.
 > 
 > Which doesn't work either securely or reliably ove rlong distances.

You may be amazed at what "ssh" can do ! 8)

	Amancio