MacX and A/UX 2.0

[Mike Shaff]

ciao,

Someone pointed out to me via email (thank-you for not flaming via c.u.aux!)
that I should post a summary giving a solution to the stand-alone A/UX 2.0 w/
MacX when applications were launched locally.  The error I was receiving was:

  "Can not open display Dream:0.0"	(where Dream is my machine)

Sometime later I stumbled onto a temporary solution.  Set the environment
variable DISPLAY to localhost:0.0 with the instruction:

  setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0

I was at a loss as to what made the 'localhost' name special, but I awaited
some more knowledgeable person to post a long-term solution, before I tracted
down that question.

I received a batch of mail that carried a solution.  The /etc/hosts file must
contain a valid entry for your machine name, further the address must be the
loop-back address.  There seems to be two ways of doing this:

1.  Add your machine name to the end of the line which is the loop-back entry
    (find the line with the words loop and localhost).

2.  Add a new entry with the proper information.  The address should be the
    same as the one found on the loop-back line.

Thanks again to all those who helped me and additionally thanks to the person
who pointed out that the net could benefit from my newly garnered information.

--
	mas

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