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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FBSD as xterm
Date: 17 Oct 1995 00:05:11 +0100
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James F. Hranicky <jfh@cis.ufl.edu> wrote:
>
>Is there an easy way to set up a FBSD machine as simply an
>xterm?

Run xterm(1)?

:)

Perhaps you was refering to an X terminal.  Well, you can simply start
the X server with an argument "-query <hostname>", or you can attempt
to setup the choser(1) utility.  Refer to the xdm docs.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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