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Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 09:48:40 -0500
From: Randy DuCharme <randyd@nconnect.net>
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Greetings,
     Is there a display variable somewhere that needs to be set (FreeBSD 
2.1)?  I encounter the message "unable to open display"  (sometimes it's 
unable to open display ''  or unable to open $DISPLAY ) when I attempt 
to run ghostscript, or the fvwm window manager for X, or a few other 
apps.  I'm new to FreeBSD and UNIX in general and realize I've probably 
missed something, but I've been messing around with it, and reading man 
pages for 3 weeks now and can't find the answer.

Thanks
Randy