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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: SCO and Wordperfect 7 problems (socksys)
To: langfod@dihelix.com (David Langford)
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 09:38:54 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: jfieber@indiana.edu, hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199607260434.SAA00979@caliban.dihelix.com> from David Langford at "Jul 25, 96 06:34:43 pm"
Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> John Fieber
> >On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, David Langford wrote:
> >
> >> I am trying to install Wordperfect 7 for SCO and I am getting the folowing
> >> errors:
> >> 
> >> libsocket: socket: /dev/socksys: No such device or address
> >> Error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0 
> >
> >Try setting the display to your (fully qualified) hostname.  With
> >WP6.0, I couldn't even get started with :0.0 or unix:0.0 or
> >localhost:0.0, I had to use fallout.campusview.indiana.edu:0.0.
> >== jfieber@indiana.edu ===========================================
> >
> 
> No DISPLAY I get:
> 
> 	/dev/X0R: No such file or directory
> 	Error: Can't open display: :0.0
> 
> DISPLAY = caliban (what hostname and /etc/hosts think machine is):
> 
> 	/dev/X0R: No such file or directory
> 	Error: Can't open display: caliban:0.0 
> 
> DISPLAY = fqdn0.0
> 
> 	libsocket: socket: /dev/socksys: No such device or address
> 	libsocket: socket: /dev/socksys: No such device or address
> 	libsocket: socket: /dev/socksys: No such device or address
> 	Error: Can't open display: caliban.dihelix.com:0.0
> 
> DISPLAY = 127.0.0.1:0.0
> 
> 	libsocket: socket: /dev/socksys: No such device or address
> 	Error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0            
> 
> I dont have any other SCO programs to try (any one know of some???)
> and I dont have the WP6.0 demo- guess I can download it... weeee.
> 
> Is anyone using SCO X stuff (like Wordperfect) on current??
> 
> -David Langford
> 

Wasn't the clue just to do a  touch /dev/socksys  ?


--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de