From: dasilva AT woodmore DOT gsfc DOT nasa DOT gov (Arlindo da Silva)
Subject: Re: Running X clients with MI/X
11 Sep 1997 01:33:22 -0700
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Tony,

> 
> I tried running X clients your created ( like xclock.exe) with MI/X server
> on
> Windows 95 PC. I upgraded to patched Cygwin.dll.
> 
> This is stand-alone PC, no network or modem connections to external 
> TCP/IP network.
> 
> MI/X server starts and runs fine. But all X clients I downloaded from your
> site
> return with error:
> Errror: Can not open display:
> 
> Setting display in AUTOEXEC.BAT to :0, :0.0, localhost:0, etc.
> gives the same error message.
> 
> Sorry for taking your time but I would appreciate some suggestion.
> I have some indications from MI tech support that I am doing something
> very strange but I fail to see what is so strange in wanting to run X
> client
> programs on the same PC where X server is running too? 
> If you would enlighten me ...
> 

I run local clients without having any network connections all the
time.  However, you must have some sort of TCP/IP support installed;
you usually don't get this unless you install some network component.

Do you have dial-up network installed? If not, go ahead and install it
- it will install the tcp/ip support you need in the process. In order
to use MI/X you don't need to start dial-up network, just the software
needs to be installed on your hard disk.

  Good Luck,

	Arlindo.

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