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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Netscape puzzle 
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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 15:24:30 EST
From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org>
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> > I had tried that and it didn't make any difference with the BSD 2.0b1, 
> > I still got an "unable to open display" error. :-(
> 
> I suggest compiling a program that does a:
> 
> main()
> {
> 	printf( "DISPLAY is '%s'\n", getenv("DISPLAY"));
> }
> 
> On a BSDI 2.0 system and running it on a FreeBSD box and seeing what
> you get.

Would that I had a BSD/OS 2.0 system to do that on. All I've got is a
1.1 CD-ROM. :-(

> We already know there are differences in the way the environment
> code works, and you are highly dependeint on that code.
> 
> Have you tried it with an explicit "-display" argument instead of
> relying on the environment?

I've tried everything. Nothing works.

--

Kaleb