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Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 01:26:38 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Peng Yu wrote:

>     I just installed the minimum set of cygwin and Cygwin/XFree86 on a
> Window XP. I can startx at the localhost(my Window XP machine).
>     Then I sshed to a remote Linux host and ran acroread. "Error: Can't not
> open display:" was displayed. Could somebody help me to fix this problem.

You need to include the "-X" argument to ssh to forward X11 from the
remote host to your local machine.

Brian

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